Associate DevOps Engineer

About Optum India

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.

As an Associate DevOps Engineer, you will be involved in Cloud/On-Prem Engineering aspects, focusing on building and maintaining the tooling and infrastructure essential for automating release, deployment, and upgrade processes. This role combines software development and IT operations practices to shorten the systems delivery life cycle and provide a continuous delivery platform. You will improve communication and collaboration, serving as a vital liaison between development and operations teams to enable rapid product development. The DevOps area at Optum India complements the efficiencies of Agile software development methods by creating more stable operating environments and continuously improving the infrastructure to be easily deployable and scalable. Incumbents are expected to maintain advanced knowledge of development processes and programming languages.

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

• Bachelor's degree
• Proven ability to use pertinent data and facts to identify and solve a range of problems within area of expertise
• Proven ability to investigate non-standard requests and problems, with some assistance from others
• Proven ability to work exclusively within a specific knowledge area
• Proven ability to prioritize and organize own work to meet deadlines
• Proven ability to provide explanations and information to others on topics within area of expertise

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.

Key skills/competency

• DevOps
• Cloud Engineering
• Automation
• Release Management
• Deployment
• CI/CD
• Infrastructure as Code
• Problem Solving
• Collaboration
• Agile Methodologies