Principal Cloud Engineer

About Optum

Careers with Optum.
Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve.
Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high-performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company, and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.

Position

As a Principal Cloud Engineer, you will be part of a team working at the intersection of financial services and health care to launch new cash flow solutions to drive broader, more equitable access to capital. You will be a subject matter expert in cloud engineering for the team, creating solutions to enable execution of machine-learning models in a public cloud environment. You should be familiar with data products and compute choices in the public cloud eco-system and understand how best to secure and manage these services in a high-availability environment.

Primary responsibilities

• Design, implement, configure, and maintain cloud based systems
• Create and deploy infrastructure as code using Terraform to manage our cloud subscriptions
• Managing cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines
• Resolve issues and provide technical assistance on the cloud-hosted environment
• Identify opportunities for improvement, optimize performance and scalability of existing solutions
• Collaborate with management, quality assurance, architecture, and other development teams to deliver against an agile roadmap of initiatives
• Build compliance ready solutions that meet SOC2, HITRUST certifications

Your qualification

• IaC experience with either Cloud formation, Terraform, Powershell
• Proven work experience as a Cloud Engineer or similar role
• Troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Experience of managing public/private cloud technologies in a large-scale enterprise environment (Azure preferred)

Will be a plus

• Azure, AWS, and GCP certifications preferred
• Understanding of infrastructure as code, specifically Terraform
• Previous experience with Agile/SCRUM methodology/best practices
• Experience configuring data products (Databricks, Snowflake, datalake, etc.)
• Hands-on experience implementing CI/CD pipelines

Additional details

A relocation package is discussed individually.