Software Engineering Lead

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

• Working with the rest of the team to deploy, maintain, and run a highly available, multi-tenant distributed system
• Automating both the infrastructure creation and the application deployment to that environment
• Supporting Linux systems internals and administration
• Build and maintain different Flavors of Kubernetes clusters on-prem and public cloud
• Support application teams to address the issues faced
• Update, enhance, create new tools using Python or Golang programming languages
• Using modern AI tools and agents to create new tools to enhance our products and services
• 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 regard 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
  
  

• Full time graduation degree
• Experience or understanding in life cycle management of Linux servers which includes Server provisioning, Build, Kick start, decommission and configuring servers using Configuration management tools like (ansible or Chef or Terraform)
• Experience in supporting On-call and addressing war rooms, P1 and P2 tickets
• Working experience on applying SRE concepts
• Working experience with the use of AI tools and agents
• Experience with scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting actively running systems
• Understand DevOps model (end to end) and experience in automating the software dev or test or deployment lifecycle with continuous integration and continuous deployment
• Working knowledge of managing different Flavors of Kubernetes clusters on-prem and Public Clouds (AWS, AZURE and GCP)
• Expert in working with Docker and Kubernetes
• Expert in tools such as Monit, ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana etc.
• Expert in scripting tools like shell scripting
• Expertise in leveraging Open Source Software technologies to solve business problems
• Proficient in using Python or Golang
• Proven skills to recommend solutions to host an application or designing the application hosting strategy
• Proven development skill to auto heal of system alerts
• Demonstrated ability in addressing different customers on email or chat-ops and one on one meetings or calls with customers
• Proven solid cross-organizational collaboration skills
• Proven solid hands-on Experience with DevOps tool chains and practices