Summary
Optum provides healthcare technology solutions through advanced data analytics, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and enterprise technology modernization. The Site Reliability Engineer will architect, develop, and maintain secure, resilient, high-performance cloud infrastructure across Azure and AWS environments while supporting platform services, observability, reliability, and production operations.
Responsibilities
- Build, operate, and support IaaS and PaaS infrastructure in Azure and AWS commercial and government cloud environments under established architecture and standards
- Partner with development teams to help define, track, and report on SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs
- Contribute to the development and support of platform services, including provisioning, configuration, deployment, and day to day operations
- Integrate applications and platforms with centralized logging, monitoring, metrics, and incident management systems
- Configure and maintain observability tools (dashboards, APMs, alerts) to help engineering teams safely operate applications in production
- Participate in an on-call rotation to support software and cloud infrastructure, following documented runbooks and escalation paths
- Support root cause analysis efforts and assist with remediation by implementing automation, monitoring improvements, and reliability fixes
- Maintain and enhance operational tooling, scripts, and frameworks used for platform and service support
- Execute performance and resiliency testing for platform services using existing frameworks and tools
- Configure and tune alerts related to performance, availability, cost, security, and compliance signals
- Follow and help improve operational processes, contributing automation to reduce manual and repetitive support activities
Skills
- • 4+ years of experience working in a Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or DevOps role
- • Hands-on experience supporting Kubernetes (managed or bare metal) clusters in production environments
- • Some hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Azure Monitor, Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus)
- • Experience using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or Pulumi
- • Experience supporting infrastructure and applications in production cloud environments
- • Experience interacting with or supporting systems that expose RESTful APIs
- • Solid working knowledge of at least one major cloud service provider (Azure preferred, AWS acceptable)
- • Working knowledge of networking fundamentals and common internet protocols
- • Understanding of identity and access management (IAM) concepts and best practices
- • Basic understanding of security concepts including encryption, PKI, and common application security risks (e.g., OWASP)
- • Familiarity with Kubernetes deployment and GitOps tools such as Helm, ArgoCD, or Flux
- • Familiarity with IDEs and source control tools such as Visual Studio Code, GitHub, GitLab
- • Ability to participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation following documented procedures and escalation paths
- • United States Citizenship
Qualifications
Must Haves
- • 4+ years of experience working in a Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or DevOps role
- • Hands-on experience supporting Kubernetes (managed or bare metal) clusters in production environments
- • Some hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Azure Monitor, Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus)
- • Experience using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or Pulumi
- • Experience supporting infrastructure and applications in production cloud environments
- • Experience interacting with or supporting systems that expose RESTful APIs
- • Solid working knowledge of at least one major cloud service provider (Azure preferred, AWS acceptable)
- • Working knowledge of networking fundamentals and common internet protocols
- • Understanding of identity and access management (IAM) concepts and best practices
- • Basic understanding of security concepts including encryption, PKI, and common application security risks (e.g., OWASP)
- • Familiarity with Kubernetes deployment and GitOps tools such as Helm, ArgoCD, or Flux
- • Familiarity with IDEs and source control tools such as Visual Studio Code, GitHub, GitLab
- • Ability to participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation following documented procedures and escalation paths
- • United States Citizenship
Benefits
- A comprehensive benefits package
- Incentive and recognition programs
- Equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution
- Flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S.