Python Job: Senior DevOps Engineer -(Hybrid)

Optum, the fast-growing part of UnitedHealth Group, is a leading information and technology-enabled health services business. Our teams are dedicated to modernizing the health care system and improving the lives of people and communities.

Serving virtually every dimension of the health system, we work with a diverse set of clients across 150 countries – from those who diagnose and treat patients to those who pay for care, deliver health services, and those who supply the cures. Optum maintains operations across North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Our innovative partnerships provide technology and tools that enable unprecedented collaboration and efficiency. As a result, we can tap into valuable health care data to uncover insights and develop strategies for better care at lower costs.

Here at Optum, part of United Health Group we'll put you in the driver's seat on vital projects that have strategic importance to our mission of helping people lead healthier lives. Yes, we share a mission that inspires. We need your organizational talents and business discipline to help fuel ours. It's the opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)

About the role:

At UnitedHealth Group and Optum, we want to make healthcare work better for everyone. This depends on hiring the best and brightest. With a thriving ecosystem of investment and innovation, our business in Ireland is constantly growing to support the healthcare needs of the future.

Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone. Join us and do your life's best work.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be a key member of the Operations/DevOps Engineering Team, which supports various Optum/UHG analytic organizations. Your primary responsibilities will include building and maintaining automated pipelines to deploy node and analytics applications in the public cloud. Additionally, you will play a vital role in advancing the team's focus on increasing operational maturity, managing compliance and vulnerabilities, and implementing automation and emerging technologies to improve users' experience and enable them to focus on their core responsibilities.

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.

Primary Responsibilities:

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  Design, develop, and maintain software applications and application components
  


• Conduct peer design and code reviews to ensure high-quality software and develop automated test cases
  


• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Github Actions or similar tools
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  Automate the deployment process and manage infrastructure as code
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  Monitor and troubleshoot pipeline issues and implement solutions to improve pipeline performance
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  Collaborate with development teams to ensure smooth integration of pipeline processes with their workflows
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  Implement unit tests and automated test cases to ensure code quality and reliability
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  Continuously evaluate and improve testing processes and tools to ensure high-quality solutions.
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  Stay up to date with new and emerging technologies and trends in the field of DevOps and bring relevant knowledge to the team.

Required Qualifications:

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  Significant experience with Linux system administration and support experience in an enterprise IT, service provider organization.
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  Hands-on experience with IT operational automation and configuration management tools and DevOps practices, processes, and tools (Git, CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible, Actions, Helm, etc.).
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  Experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and knowledge on container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
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  Proficient with a scripting language (Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform)

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  Excellent communication skills (both strong written and verbal English is a must)
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  Self-motivated, resourceful, creative, innovative, results driven, and adaptable with solid problem solving and analytical skills
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  Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.
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  Experience in Agile development methodologies and working with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

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  Experience building containers with dockerfiles and Manifest(docker, k8s)
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  Vulnerability integration into deployment pipelines
  


• Working Knowledge of deployments in a Kubernetes cluster using Helm

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  Experience administering applications in public cloud (Azure preferred).
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  Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ES, Kibana, etc
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  Proven experiences with development and delivery using DevOps or MlOps Practices
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  Exposure to cloud based Big Data tools (Databricks, Snowflake, Data Lake Storage)

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.(sm)

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

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.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.