Lead Cloud Engineer - Telecommute

Combine two of the fastest-growing fields on the planet with a culture of performance, collaboration and opportunity and this is what you get. Leading edge technology in an industry that's improving the lives of millions. Here, innovation isn't about another gadget, it's about making health care data available wherever and whenever people need it, safely and reliably. There's no room for error. Join us and start doing your life's best work.(sm)

The Lead Cloud Engineer role is responsible for leading technical product ownership of the Government Programs Marketing platform. The position will require technical hands-on architect level implementation as well long-range strategic direction setting of the platform. The role will be point person to provide technical guidance to team member, help solve any issues and work with technology and business leadership to provide relevant updates. The position will also require full accountability management of infrastructure updates (public cloud) for the product along with technical mentoring a team of full time and contractual resources. If you have a passion of solving business problems using big data and interest in emerging data technologies for marketing than this is the position for you.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Planning, managing, and executing critical technology initiatives leveraging public cloud
• Provide Technical Leadership to develop and deliver highest quality and scalable cloud solutions
• Driving innovation and creative solutions to business and technical challenges on an ongoing basis
• Providing leadership and direction to application team and business product teams
• Perform hands on work to create framework, provide sample/reference implementation to team member.
• Lead and develop technology roadmaps
• Identify and onboard top talent to build a team of engineers to support new application
• Building collaborative relationships with business partners vendors, and technology
• Delivering solutions to meet the business agenda (on Scope, Schedule, Cost, Benefit and Quality)
• Define cloud migration approach and strategy for Government Program digital and marketing data platform team
• Design and Architect App level Cloud setup
• Communicate and educate broader team about cloud setup
• Work on POC and setup
• Explore advanced option to drive efficiency, cost reduction and modernization
• Help other scrum teams come up to speed with cloud setup

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience within the technology field as engineer
• 2+ years of experience with Azure Cloud with the following topics
  • Traffic Managers, Application Gateways, Application Management Services, Key Vaults, Kubernetes, Container Registries, Virtual Networks, Network Security Groups, Firewalls
• 1+ years of experience in Terraform
  • Creating scripts for different types of resources
  • Managing states
• Experience establishing best practices, patterns and templates for enterprise software development organizations
• Ability to leverage advanced cloud features such as auto scaling, and ML

Preferred Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in software engineering, computer science or related field
• 2+ year of working in a Linux OS environment
• 1+ year of experience in Helm chart: Creating charts; Configuring the services, ingress, egress, scaling and service accounts; Managing helm chart states
• 1+ year of experience with Cloud ML, ADF, Databricks setup
• 1+ years of Docker experience
• 1+ year One to two years’ experience in Jenkins / CICD
• Prior UnitedHealth Group/UHC/Optum experience
• Good knowledge of cloud security setup
• Expertise with common high-availability and disaster recovery patterns
• Local to Eden Prairie, MN

To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including boosters, as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment.

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Colorado, Connecticut or Nevada Residents Only: The salary range for Colorado residents is $97,300 to $176,900. The salary range for Connecticut / Nevada residents is $97,300 to $176,900. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

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.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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