The
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team at Optum Financial ensures world-class reliability, scalability, security, compliance, and performance of a scalable infrastructure platform that powers diverse financial products. We exist so our customers, partners, and engineers can trust and innovate financial products without fear and with velocity. As an SRE, you will support tools, platforms, and processes while contributing to observability, automation, and incident response. Our team is driving modern observability practices with OpenTelemetry and the adoption of SLOs as reliability measures. You will contribute to automation of our environment and build AI-enhanced platforms to support the next generation of financial technology.
You will enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Primary Responsibilities:- Support observability and monitoring solutions
- Assist with SLIs, SLOs, and alerting
- Contribute to automation initiatives
- Participate in incident response and RCA
- Support cloud and container platforms
- Partner with engineering teams on reliability
- Maintain documentation and runbooks
You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear directions on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:- Associate's degree OR 2+ years of additional software engineering, DevOps, or SRE experience
- 3+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or software engineering
- 1+ years of experience with monitoring tools
- 1+ years of experience with cloud platforms and containers
- 1+ years of experience with SLOs and alerting
Preferred Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- CI/CD exposure
- Infrastructure as code exposure
- Incident response experience
- Automation development experience
- Exposure to AI/ML concepts or practical experience applying automation to improve operational efficiency
*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.
Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer 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 us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $72,800 to $130,000 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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.
