Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The AWS Cloud Site Reliability Engineer will lead a team to ensure high-quality delivery while designing and maintaining scalable systems, implementing monitoring strategies, and driving automation efforts.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of SREs to ensure high-quality delivery and professional growth
- Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable systems using cloud-native technologies
- Develop and implement monitoring, alerting, and observability strategies to ensure optimal system performance and user experience
- Automate operational tasks and drive infrastructure-as-code (IaC) adoption
- Proactively identify and resolve reliability risks, bottlenecks, and performance issues
- Leveraging AI
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams on architecture, code reviews, and incident response
- Lead post-incident reviews (blameless retrospectives), root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Streamline migration processes, ensure consistency and enhance efficiency through automation, AI and innovative solutions
- Define SLOs/SLIs, track error budgets, and report on system health to stakeholders
- Ensure compliance and security standards are integrated into system operations
- Stay current with emerging technologies and SRE best practices
- Leverage enterprise-approved AI tools to streamline workflows, automate tasks, and drive continuous improvement
Skills
- Bachelor's degree OR CS OR IT related field
- 3+ years of experience with Cloud SDKs with AWS using Java (spring boot microservices), Scala, and Python
- 3+ years of experience with Distributed Data services (DynamoDB/Athena or similar)
- 3+ years of experience with AWS Cloud: S3, CloudWatch, ECS, Lambda, RDS, EMR, AWS ECS
- 3+ years of experience with CI/CD using GitHub Actions or similar
- Experience in Unix, Hadoop, HBase and Hive
- Experience working with offshore and onsite teams as part of job requirement
- Proven good communication skills
- 3+ years of experience in Elastic APM
- 3 years with Scala
- 3 years with Kubernetes Clusters
- All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
Benefits
- A comprehensive benefits package
- Incentive and recognition programs
- Equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)
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