Senior Software Engineering Lead – Java, Micro Services, Cloud – AWS or Azure or GCP

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. 

In this position you will be contributing to and driving efforts to Evaluate, Enable, Improve, and Secure the Public Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).  Contributing to and improving the ongoing Public Cloud Platform security posture and operational items.  Supporting public cloud platform enabling security products and tools.  Partnering with Enterprise Information Security on both proactive and reactive efforts.  

Primary Responsibilities:

• Maintain and operate the public cloud security enablement tools
• Partner with security, compliance, and public cloud platform engineering to identify and implement cloud platform security gaps
• Partner with Product leadership to complete security work, provide requirements, and stake holder input
• Become a SME on the security products and services used to secure the public cloud for the enterprise
• Create playbooks with and for Security Incident Response
• Security anomaly detection enablement and analysis
• Work with Cloud hosting vendors pushing boundaries on cloud platform security tooling and configurations
• High Priority on call support owning and driving security remediation
• Public Cloud Security Hygiene; Key rotations, Security finding remediation, and Security tool enablement drift detection
• Provide management updates, status reporting, and dashboards from a cloud platform security perspective to demonstrate progress and process maturity.  Adhoc data pulls where reporting and dashboards are not in place
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• 10 -12 years of overall technology experience which includes solid expertise on Java programming language along with Microservices
• 3+ years of experience architecting, delivering, and operating large scale, highly available system and
• 3+ years of experience with at least 1 engineering/scripting tool such as Jenkins, Terraform, CLI, Powershell, Python
• 2+ years of experience in public cloud security or equivalent security experience
• 1+ years of experience in Log aggregation reporting tools, such as: Elasticsearch, Splunk

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certification in a cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience in managing and using a Public Cloud Platform (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Familiarity with IT standards and best practices, audit, security and compliance (ex: ITIL, ITSM, SOC2, HIPAA, NIST, HITRUST CSF)
• Healthcare Industry experience 
• Experience in complex projects with division or company-wide scope

The complexity of this role can be challenging. We work on cloud platform enablement and security where public cloud accounts host healthcare technology products and services.   Everything you work on will have implications that impact others. 

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.