Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Telecommute

Company: UnitedHealth Group
Location: San Antonio
Posted on: September 24, 2022

Job Description:

Landmark Health, part of the Optum and UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, was created to transform how healthcare is delivered to the most medically vulnerable members in our community. Our medical group provides home-based medical care to chronically ill patients, many of whom are ill-equipped to navigate our overwhelming healthcare system. Landmark Health is hiring a new Lead Site Reliability Engineer to build, operate and continuously improve the Ubiquity production environment. Ubiquity is Landmark Health's internal electronic health records software that powers our business. In this role you will building software and systems to manage infrastructure and Ubiquity provider/patient facing applications through automation. You will partner closely with development teams to design, build, deploy, support and monitor existing and new Ubiquity applications and services. You'll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. Primary Responsibilities:

• Ensure Ubiquity and corresponding services have reliability and uptime appropriate to users needs and a fast rate of improvement while staying mindful of capacity and performance
• Build creative engineering solutions to operations and infrastructure problems, focusing on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and eliminating work through automation. Determine how our systems relate to each other and use a breadth of tools and approaches to solve a variety of problems
• Define and implement standards and best practices related to: System Architecture, Deployment, metrics, monitoring/observability and operational tasks
• Build a culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and openness
• Manage, innovate, and create designs for software that drives improvements to the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Ubiquity and related services
• Work cross-functionally with product area leads to guide product engineering, and collaborate with developers
• Contribute to team growth by providing advice, mentoring and coaching to other engineers with positivity and enthusiasm
• Experience analyzing and troubleshooting distributed systems 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:
  • Undergraduate degree in applicable area of expertise or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years of experience in engineering and technical development
  • 6+ years hands on experience in Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps
  • Experience in configuration and maintenance of applications such as web servers, load balancers, non-relational databases, storage systems and messaging systems
  • Experience with MongoDB performance tuning, design, backups, and security implementations
  • Expert in data structures, algorithms and analysis
  • Demonstrated skills in multiple coding/scripting languages and able to select the appropriate language given the business need
  • Demonstrated technical leadership for an enterprise SaaS service Preferred Qualifications:
    • Experience with configuration and deployment management tools (e.g. Terraform)
    • Experience with operating systems and TCP/IP network fundamentals
    • Experience learning software, frameworks and APIs
    • Experience with public cloud applications and services (Azure or similar public cloud platform)
    • Experience with Containerization Technologies (Docker, Kubernetes or similar)
    • Experience with Microsoft and Linux Technologies
    • Experience with VMWare or other Virtual Server Software 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. Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm) Colorado, Connecticut or Nevada Residents Only: The salary range for Colorado residents is $113,500 to $218,100. The salary range for Connecticut / Nevada residents is $113,500 to $218,100. 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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