AWS Cloud Site Reliability Engineer

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The AWS Cloud Site Reliability Engineer will lead a team to ensure high-quality delivery while designing and maintaining scalable systems, implementing monitoring strategies, and driving automation efforts.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of SREs to ensure high-quality delivery and professional growth
• Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable systems using cloud-native technologies
• Develop and implement monitoring, alerting, and observability strategies to ensure optimal system performance and user experience
• Automate operational tasks and drive infrastructure-as-code (IaC) adoption
• Proactively identify and resolve reliability risks, bottlenecks, and performance issues
• Leveraging AI
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams on architecture, code reviews, and incident response
• Lead post-incident reviews (blameless retrospectives), root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Streamline migration processes, ensure consistency and enhance efficiency through automation, AI and innovative solutions
• Define SLOs/SLIs, track error budgets, and report on system health to stakeholders
• Ensure compliance and security standards are integrated into system operations
• Stay current with emerging technologies and SRE best practices
• Leverage enterprise-approved AI tools to streamline workflows, automate tasks, and drive continuous improvement

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree OR CS OR IT related field
• 3+ years of experience with Cloud SDKs with AWS using Java (spring boot microservices), Scala, and Python
• 3+ years of experience with Distributed Data services (DynamoDB/Athena or similar)
• 3+ years of experience with AWS Cloud: S3, CloudWatch, ECS, Lambda, RDS, EMR, AWS ECS
• 3+ years of experience with CI/CD using GitHub Actions or similar
• Experience in Unix, Hadoop, HBase and Hive
• Experience working with offshore and onsite teams as part of job requirement
• Proven good communication skills
• 3+ years of experience in Elastic APM
• 3 years with Scala
• 3 years with Kubernetes Clusters
• All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy