Azure Platform Engineer

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Azure Platform Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing cloud-based applications and solutions using Microsoft Azure.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design & Develop: Create and deploy Azure cloud-based solutions
• Maintenance: Monitor and maintain existing Azure infrastructure and workloads
• Security: Ensure the security, performance, reliability, and scalability of Azure applications and infrastructure
• Troubleshooting: Perform troubleshooting and root cause analysis for infrastructure issues
• Collaboration: Work closely with developers to implement continuous delivery systems and methodologies on Azure
• Documentation: Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance
• Training: Provide guidance, training, and mentorship to other team members on Azure technology and solutions
• Disaster Recovery: Develop and implement disaster recovery plans
• Cost Management: Assist in the development of cost management strategies for Azure usage

User Responsibilities

• Leverage enterprise-approved AI tools to enhance productivity and innovation by streamlining workflows and automating repetitive tasks. Evaluate emerging trends to drive continuous improvement and strategic innovation
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in a related technical field
• 7+ years of IT experience
• 5+ years of Azure Cloud Services and DevOps experience
• 4+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible/Chef/Puppet)
• 4+ years of experience with Docker and container orchestration (Azure Kubernetes)
• 4+ years of experience with DevOps and CI/CD tools such as Git, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Sonar, CodeQL, etc.
• 4+ years of experience with monitoring tools and technologies (Splunk, Dynatrace, New Relic)
• Experience designing and implementing Azure Cloud infrastructure and services including Azure Container Apps, VNet with subnets, Private Endpoints for SQL MI, Cosmos/Mongo, Storage, GitHub for repos, CI/CD, container image scanning, secret scanning, Azure AD (SSO), Key Vault, Azure App Gateway, Azure Load Balancers and Private Endpoints
• Azure Security Tools: Proficiency with Azure Security tools including Azure Security Centre, Azure Active Directory, Azure Key Vault, and other Azure services
• Vulnerability Management: Proven ability to execute vulnerability scans and security assessments, and implement remediation measures
• Secure Coding Practices: Proven ability to ensure secure coding practices are followed in development
• Regulatory Compliance: Proven ability to implement regulatory compliance controls for Azure infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on scripting experience with one or more of YAML, JSON, PowerShell, Bash, or Python
• Infrastructure engineering and automation experience
• Good knowledge of SRE principles

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.