Join Optum, a global leader dedicated to improving health outcomes through innovative technology. As a Senior I O Engineering Consultant, you will be instrumental in shaping and maintaining our cloud infrastructure, ensuring its scalability, security, and high availability. This role offers a dynamic environment with opportunities for professional growth, collaboration with talented peers, and the chance to make a significant impact on healthcare optimization worldwide.

Our culture thrives on inclusion and connection, fostering an environment where you can truly make a difference. We are committed to advancing health for everyone, everywhere.

We are looking for individuals who are passionate about building robust systems and driving continuous improvement in a collaborative setting. Come grow with us and help us shape the future of health.

Architect, deploy, and maintain highly available, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure. Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines for improved release velocity and quality. Administer and optimize containerized workloads using ECS/Fargate. Implement and manage infrastructure provisioning through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks like Terraform. Monitor system health and performance, proactively identifying and resolving issues to ensure platform reliability and operational excellence.

Troubleshoot production issues, participate in on-call rotations, and conduct root-cause analyses. Implement and enforce security best practices, manage access controls, and support compliance initiatives. Collaborate with engineering teams, application developers, architects, and security experts to deliver effective infrastructure solutions. Mentor team members on DevOps best practices and contribute to continuous improvement efforts.

A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field is required, coupled with 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering. Proven expertise in designing, deploying, and managing AWS cloud infrastructure, with at least 5 years of hands-on experience. Proficiency in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI/CD.

Solid experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration platforms like ECS or Kubernetes. Extensive knowledge of core AWS services including ECS/Fargate, EC2, VPC, IAM, ALB, Route 53, S3, CloudWatch, Lambda, RDS, and IaC tools such as CloudFormation/Terraform. Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Shell, Bash, or PowerShell are essential. Experience leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools and a working knowledge of Generative AI technologies and LLMs is highly valued.