Job Details
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.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Perform regular backups and recovery procedures. Optimize database performance through indexing, query tuning, and resource management
- Implementing and maintain database security measures
- Ensure compliance with organizational and industry standards for data protection. Achieve near 100% database uptime and availability
- Implementing solutions to continuously improve operational reliability of the cloud infrastructure
- Availability, performance, monitoring and Infra Provisioning for the Platform which comprises of Cloud infrastructure and On Prem technologies
- Closely partner with Engineering and Technical Support teams to drive resolution of critical issues
- Publish and implement operational standards for all Cloud infrastructure and services
- Handling incident, change and problem management
- Closely partnering with Development Teams and help address Platform related roadblocks
- Conduct post-mortem after a production issues
- 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 Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 8+ years of overall IT experience
- Experience in financial technology domain
- Experience with high volume transaction sites
- Infrastructure Engineering Experience
- Automation experience
- Experience working with applications deployed in private or public cloud
- Experience in customer facing products
- Proficient in JavaScript, JQuery, ReactJS, TypeScript, SCS, NodeJS, Angular JS, HTML, CSS,
- Proven good oral and written communication Skills
- Proven ability to demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills
- Proven ability to quickly learn new technologies and leverage them to execute on the use cases given to solve business problems
- Good Knowledge on 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.
