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Posted 33 days agoVerified live 2d ago

Site Reliability Engineer - Remote

Brief overview

Remote
$73k–$130k/yrStated range
KubernetesCloud Computing AzureCloud Computing AWSInfrastructure as Code TerraformInfrastructure as Code PulumiMonitoring and Observability Azure MonitorMonitoring and Observability SplunkMonitoring and Observability DynatraceMonitoring and Observability GrafanaMonitoring and Observability PrometheusRESTful APIsNetworking and Internet ProtocolsIdentity and Access Management (IAM)Encryption and PKIOWASP Application SecurityGitOps HelmGitOps ArgoCD

Job description

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.

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