IO Engineering Consultant - Sterling, Linux, Perl Scripting, SQL

Trading Partner Maintenance Specialist

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. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Position in this function performs trading partner maintenance, including setting up MFT connections with internal and external clients and file routing. Works problem tickets and perform ongoing system maintenance. Excellent troubleshooting skills with transaction failures or file transfer issues. Supports upgrades and/or migrations. Deployment of new code across Non-Prod and Production environments. Provides On-Call production support for the service.

Primary Responsibility:

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:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience with Sterling Integrator in an application administration role with duties including: Production Monitoring and using various monitoring tools, Performance optimization, Root cause analysis, Advanced troubleshooting
• 5+ years of experience with file transfer protocols such as FTPS, SFTP, AS2 and Connect: Direct
• 4+ years of Linux experience including Shell and Perl scripting
• 4+ years of SQL experience
• 2+ years of EDI experience
• Experience supporting applications running on Linux
• Flexibility towards working in shifts

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in various IBM MFT Products/Tools: IBM Sterling Secure Proxy, IBM Sterling External Authentication Server, IBM Control Center, IBM Connect Direct, RESTful APIs
• Experience using PragmaEdge Community Manager (PCM)
• Healthcare or Insurance Industry experience
• Knowledge of IBM MQ, IBM Transformation Extender
• Knowledge of Cloud technologies like Azure, DevOps methodologies, Containers

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.