Join Optum, a global leader in health optimization, where technology drives healthier lives for millions. As part of our Public Cloud engineering team, you'll develop software, manage security and financial controls, and create reusable applications essential for enterprise-level public cloud operations. This is an opportunity to leverage a robust platform to deliver value swiftly and sustainably, directly contributing to Optum's mission of improving health outcomes and making the health system work better for everyone.

Work collaboratively in an agile environment with product owners, operational staff, and technology leadership. Your contributions will empower thousands of engineers across Optum and UnitedHealth Group to build advanced enterprise applications on the public cloud. Embrace a culture of inclusion, learn from talented peers, and access comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities.

Lead the design, development, and operation of secure cloud platform services and software tailored to meet evolving business needs. Guide a team of cloud platform engineers, ensuring technical solutions adhere to architectural principles, established design patterns, and stringent enterprise security requirements. Drive innovation, streamline processes, and actively reduce technical debt through standardization of patterns. Automate repetitive tasks, enhance application monitoring, simplify work practices, define key metrics, and uphold high operational quality for all applications.

Manage platform-level security controls to ensure secure, efficient, and policy-compliant operations. Collaborate extensively with partner teams to disseminate information security guidance and standards, effectively mitigating security risks. Provide dedicated coaching, mentoring, and leadership to the Cloud Platform team, fostering skill development and knowledge enhancement within the team.

A minimum of 10 years of experience as a software development engineer, including hands-on coding for production systems, is essential. Candidates should possess over 5 years of experience with public cloud providers like AWS, Azure, or GCP, extending beyond basic IaaS. Proficiency in at least one high-level programming language, such as Python, Golang, or JavaScript, is required, alongside 5+ years of engineering experience in building infrastructure through code and repeatable designs (IaC).

Demonstrated experience of at least 2 years with containerization and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, and 2+ years in automating CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins (Pipeline as Code) or GitHub Actions, with strong proficiency in Git for source control, is expected. Additionally, a minimum of 2 years of experience in leading Agile/Lean development practices is necessary.