Advisory Services Consultant

Caring. Connecting. Growing Together.

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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale.

Primary Responsibilities:

We are looking for an experienced Cloud Platform engineer who has solid knowledge on Azure Ecosystem and Snowflake Cloud Data Platform.

You will help us build scalable, efficient cloud infrastructure. You'll implement monitoring for automated system health checks. Lastly, you'll build our CI pipeline, and train and guide the team in DevOps practices.

Collaborate with the development team and implement DevOps best practices

Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines for efficient software delivery

Manage and support Azure based infrastructure and services

Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues across development and production environments

Create and maintain infrastructure as code (IAC) using Terraform

Define the administrative tasks performed in support of the Snowflake Data Cloud

Design and develop secure access to objects in Snowflake with Role-based Access Control (RBAC)

Describe data governance in Snowflake, including column-level data security using secure views and dynamic data masking features

Provide technical support to development teams, ensuring smooth application deployment and operations

Collaborate on optimizing application performance and scalability

Document processes, configurations and best practices

Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies

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 regard 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:

Bachelor's or advanced degree in a related technical field

Azure certifications (e.g., AZ-900, AZ-104, HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate) is an added advantage

6+ years IT experience

6+ years of experience in design, implementation, and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions using Terraform on the Microsoft Azure platform

5+ years Azure Cloud Services and DevOps experience

2+ years of experience in Snowflake Cloud Administration

As a DevOps expert, your key focus will be on Design, Implementation, Configuration and Development of the CICD solutions by using various cloud automation tools (Terraform, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Hashicorp)

Automation scripting (using scripting languages such as Terraform, Ansible etc.)

Microsoft Azure IaaS, Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Snowflake Administration

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. 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.