Senior Software Engineer - Schaumburg, IL or Irvine, CA UnitedHealth Group Schaumburg, IL Full-Time

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Combine two of the fastest-growing fields on the planet with culture of performance, collaboration and opportunity and this is what you get. Leading edge technology in an industry that’s improving the lives of millions. Here, innovation isn’t about another gadget, it’s about making health care data available wherever and whenever people need it, safely and reliable. There’s no room for error. Join us and start doing your life’s best work. (sm)

Software engineering is the application of engineering to the design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of software in a systematic method. The roles in this function will cover all primary development activity across all technology functions that ensure we deliver code with high quality for our applications, products and services and to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps.

These roles include, but are not limited to analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging, standards, methods, tools analysis, documentation, research and development, maintenance, new development, operations and delivery. With every role in the company, each position has a requirement for building quality into every output. This also includes evaluating new tools, new techniques, strategies; Automation of common tasks; build of common utilities to drive organizational efficiency with a passion around technology and solutions and influence of thought and leadership on future capabilities and opportunities to apply technology in new and innovative ways.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design and implement cloud solutions which are secure, scalable, resilient, monitored, auditable and cost optimized
• Script Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
• Script application deployment automation using industry standard deployment and configuration tools
• Design and implement continuous delivery pipelines
• Provide systems support including responding to monitoring alerts
• Implement and stay abreast of Cloud and DevOps industry best practices and tooling

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:

• 2+ years of hands-on experience at least in one scripting language
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with databases including Mongo & Elasticsearch
• Experience with Terraform, Azure DevOps, CICD automation experience, Jenkins
• Hands on experience in networking security, databases and cloud systems
• Deep understanding of how systems work
• Expertise in various scripting languages, system and server administration and mass system deployments
• Expertise in release engineering for Java, creating tools for engineering organization for performance optimization
• Knowledge of Java/JVM based languages
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Team player
• Good time-management skills
• Interpersonal and communication skills
• You will be asked to perform this role in an office setting or other company location
• Employees are required to screen for symptoms using the ProtectWell mobile app, Interactive Voice Response (i.e., entering your symptoms via phone system) or a similar UnitedHealth Group-approved symptom screener prior to entering the work site each day, in order to keep our work sites safe. Employees must comply with any state and local masking orders. In addition, when in a UnitedHealth Group building, employees are expected to wear a mask in areas where physical distancing cannot be attained

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Azure DevOps and Terraform
• Experience with cost optimization

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.(sm)


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.



Job Keywords: DevOps, Software Engineer, Senior Developer, Azure, CICD, Java, JVM, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Cloud, Terraform, UHG, Optum, healthcare

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