Software Engineer - Cloud Platform - Remote

Optum is hiring a Software Engineer for its Cloud Platform Engineering team. The role develops and improves reusable cloud platform software and Terraform capabilities across Azure and AWS, including automation, CI/CD, testing, reliability, and incident response.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, test and enhance reusable Terraform modules, existing platform framework components, internal libraries and supporting software written in Java, C# or TypeScript
• Implement cloud platform capabilities within established architecture using Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, GitOps and cloud-native automation patterns where appropriate
• Apply strong software engineering fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, computational complexity, dependency-graph reasoning, interface design, automated testing and maintainable abstraction design
• Contribute to code and design reviews and improve the reliability, security, observability, testability and maintainability of shared platform components
• Build and maintain GitLab pipelines for testing, validation, policy enforcement, packaging and safe infrastructure delivery
• Participate in the team's weekly on-call rotation, support incident response and service restoration, and convert operational learnings into tests, automation, documentation or platform improvements
• Participate effectively in Scrum, Kanban or a hybrid Agile model, including backlog refinement, planning, reviews and retrospectives, while maintaining clear work items, acceptance criteria and technical documentation
• Use approved AI-assisted development capabilities to improve coding, testing, troubleshooting, documentation and operational workflows, and show practical interest in emerging agentic workflows

Requirements:

• 2+ years of software engineering, platform engineering, cloud engineering or equivalent practical experience
• Experience working in an Agile delivery model with disciplined backlog refinement, acceptance criteria and technical documentation
• Production software-development experience in Java, C#, TypeScript, or another comparable general-purpose programming language, including testing and debugging
• Practical Terraform experience including reusable modules, composition, iteration and dynamic constructs, state and remote backends, automated testing and CI/CD integration
• Demonstrate deep expertise in at least three of the following cloud infrastructure domains in either Azure or AWS: networking, DNS, identity and access management (IAM), certificates/PKI, private and hybrid connectivity, and Kubernetes. Equivalent depth in both cloud providers is not required
• Demonstrate ability to reason about data structures, graph relationships, algorithms, computational complexity and reusable software abstractions
• Demonstrate ability to participate in a weekly on-call rotation and support incident response for the platform capabilities the team owns
• United States citizenship
• Relevant Azure or AWS certification strongly preferred; associate-level credentials are appropriate, and demonstrated practical expertise is more important than certification alone. Foundational certifications alone do not establish the required depth
• Experience in one or more of the following areas is valuable. Candidates are not expected to have experience with every technology or domain listed
• Large or deeply composed Terraform codebases, multi-cloud abstractions, code generation, internal SDKs, testing frameworks or custom policy frameworks
• GitLab CI/CD, Argo CD, CDK8s, AKS, EKS or other Kubernetes and GitOps technologies
• Deep specialization in one or more of the listed cloud infrastructure domains
• Practical AI-assisted development and exposure to MCP, agentic workflows, RAG or comparable AI engineering patterns