Devops Engineer - Azure

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain Azure resources using modern Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (Terraform, Ansible)
• Build and maintain pipelines and automation through GitOps (GitHub Actions, JPAC, etc.)
• Create and own platform level services on top of Kubernetes (AKS, Azure Container Apps)
• Develop automation scripts by submitting PRs and participating in code reviews (Github)
• Use AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT to enhance productivity, automation, and code quality.
• Learn and apply new AI tools and techniques to improve development workflows and solutions.
• Stay up to date with the latest advancements in AI and integrate them into daily tasks and projects.
• Build monitoring and alerting templates for various cloud metrics (Splunk, Dynatrace, Azure app insights)
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation
• Works with less structured, more complex issues
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives

Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• 6+ years of experience defining, designing, and implementing CI/CD systems (such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
• 3+ years of experience with Docker or Containerization
• 3+ years of experience building and troubleshooting cloud networks
• 2+ years of experience with Terraform
• Experience with Monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus
• Experience with AI tools and integration (like ChatGPT, M365 Copilot GitHub Copilot, etc.)
• Knowledge of AI model integration into applications.
• Good to have python scripting skills.
• Experience with advanced scripting
• Expertise in identifying and mitigating infrastructure security vulnerabilities
• Expertise in managing cost optimized infrastructure setups
• Expertise in setting monitors, triggers, alerts and managing the infra setup on highest availability and reliability standards
• Solid knowledge in Azure networking, such as configuring virtual networks, firewalls, load balancers, and VPNs
• Proven team player attitude and willingness to collaborate with others