Lead Cloud Software Engineer

1 month ago

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States Optum Full time

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Optum's Public Cloud engineering team develops software, manages security financial controls, and creates reusable application patterns that enable enterprise to operate at scale within the public cloud space. Optum product teams build on top of this platform to deliver value safely, quickly, and sustainably. This supports Optum's goals of helping people live healthier lives and makes the health system work better for everyone.


In this position, you will work with a growing team to create business value while collaborating with product owners, operational staff and technology leadership in an agile manner. Your work will be leveraged by thousands of Optum and UnitedHealth Group engineers as they work to build mature applications on top of public cloud resources. Come join us


The ideal candidate will have deep software engineering skills, experience applying those skills to manage and use public cloud resources and exhibit agile development leadership. They will apply these skills as a lead designer and engineer for new services and software with scalability, interoperability, and code maintainability in mind.

If you are located in Eden Prairie MN, you will have the flexibility to work remotely*, as well as work in the office as you take on some tough challenges. If you are located outside of Eden Prairie, MN, you will enjoy the flexibility to work remotely* from anywhere within the U.S.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Designing, building and operating secure cloud platform services and software that meet business requirements
  • Leading a team of cloud platform engineers to ensure technical solutions align with architectural principles, design patterns, and security requirements
  • Innovate to improving efficiency, reducing technical drag, and create usable app patterns
  • Practice SRE principles, to eliminating repetitive tasks, monitor performance, simplifying work practices, defining outcomes and metrics, and assure operational quality
  • Manage security controls at the platform layer to enable the organization to operate securely, efficiently, and within policy
  • Assist multiple partner teams to understand and apply information security guidance and standards with the goal of mitigating information security risks
  • Providing coaching, mentoring, and leadership to the Cloud Platform team to enhance their skills and knowledge

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:

  • 5+ years of experience as software development engineer or equivalent hands-on experience producing code for production systems
  • 3+ years of experience in Public Cloud such as AWS, Azure, GCP beyond basic IaaS functionality
  • 3+ years of experience programming in at least one high-level language (Python, Golang, JavaScript, etc.)
  • 2+ years of experience in building cloud platforms
  • 2+ years of engineering experience in building infrastructure using code and repeatable designs
  • 2+ of years of experience with the software build cycle
  • 2+ years of experience in automation of CI/CD using GitHub actions or similar and source control system such as Git
  • 2+ years of experience with Agile/lean development practice as a leader

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with containers and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes
  • Evidence based approach to making decisions and solving problems
  • Design mindset - capable of building distributed/scalable services
  • Algorithms, data structures, OO design and other CSCI concepts
  • API design and lifecycle management (REST, etc.)
  • Application foundations and frameworks (Spring, Flask, etc.)
  • Data storage, caching and optimization (NoSQL databases, Redis, PostgreSQL, etc.)
  • Inter-service messaging and streams discovery (SQS, Pub/Sub Kafka, etc.)
  • Instrumentation, logging and tracing (Prometheus, CloudWatch, Stack Driver, Azure Monitor etc.)

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington Residents Only: The salary range for this role is $104,700 to $190,400 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. 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.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.


At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

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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