Senior DevOps Engineer

Optum is a global organization that delivers care through technology to improve health outcomes. They are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to support multiple business domains within Optum Financial, focusing on developing new products and enhancements in the Consumer Payments area by building secure, cloud-based payment capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure with a primary focus on Azure and Kubernetes environments
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to ensure scalable, secure, and reliable deployments
• Build and maintain tooling, pipelines, and automation that support release, deployment, and upgrade processes across environments
• Implement and manage observability solutions, including automated deployment of Datadog monitors, dashboards, and alerting through Terraform
• Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to ensure applications and infrastructure meet organizational security, compliance, and governance requirements
• Monitor and optimize cloud infrastructure costs, identifying and implementing cost‑saving opportunities while retaining performance and reliability
• Serve as a liaison between development and operations teams to improve communication, enhance collaboration, and accelerate product delivery
• Contribute to a continuous delivery platform, supporting Agile development with stable, scalable, and easily deployable environments
• Maintain advanced knowledge of development processes, programming concepts, and modern DevOps practices to continuously improve platform reliability and developer productivity

Requirements:

• High School Diploma/GED (or higher)
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or cloud infrastructure roles, with hands‑on work in Azure or similar cloud platforms
• 3+ years of experience with Terraform or another infrastructure‑as‑code framework (e.g., Pulumi, CloudFormation)
• 3+ years of experience managing Kubernetes environments, including deployment, scaling, and cluster operations
• 3+ years of experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitHub Actions or comparable tools
• 1+ years of experience deploying and managing observability systems, including Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or similar platforms
• 1+ years of experience automating deployment of monitoring dashboards, alerts, and telemetry integrations using IaC
• Experience in healthcare technology is preferred