Senior DevOps Engineer

About the role

The Sr. DevOps Engineer will support multiple business domains within Optum Financial, focusing on the development of secure, cloud-based payment capabilities. The role involves leveraging AI-powered tools to enhance productivity and automate processes.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure with a primary focus on Azure and Kubernetes environments
• Build and maintain tooling, pipelines, and automation that support release, deployment, and upgrade processes across environments
• Implement and manage observability solutions, including automated deployment of Datadog monitors, dashboards, and alerting through Terraform
• Maintain advanced knowledge of development processes, programming concepts, and modern DevOps practices to continuously improve platform reliability and developer productivity
• Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to ensure applications and infrastructure meet organizational security, compliance, and governance requirements
• Monitor and optimize cloud infrastructure costs, identifying and implementing cost-saving opportunities while retaining performance and reliability
• Serve as a liaison between development and operations teams to improve communication, enhance collaboration, and accelerate product delivery
• Contribute to a continuous delivery platform, supporting Agile development with stable, scalable, and easily deployable environments

Requirements

• High School Diploma/GED (or higher)
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or cloud infrastructure roles, with hands-on work in Azure or similar cloud platforms
• 3+ years of experience with Terraform or another infrastructure-as-code framework (e.g., Pulumi, CloudFormation)
• 3+ years of experience managing Kubernetes environments, including deployment, scaling, and cluster operations
• 3+ years of experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitHub Actions or comparable tools
• 1+ years of experience deploying and managing observability systems, including Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or similar platforms
• 1+ years of experience automating deployment of monitoring dashboards, alerts, and telemetry integrations using IaC

Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare technology is preferred

Skills

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to partner effectively across engineering, operations, and security teams

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Earned stock purchase plan
• 401(k) contribution

Pay

The salary for this role will range from $91,700 to $163,700 annually based on full-time employment.

Schedule

Monday to Friday, 8 AM - 5 PM

Location

Remote, Nationwide

Application Deadline

This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected.