Azure Cloud Engineer - Remote

About the position

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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Responsibilities

• Design and build a greenfield commercial analytics platform on Microsoft Azure
• Design cloud architecture and patterns
• Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for Cloud (Azure) and Terraform
• Maintain ongoing improvement of processes, and best practices to meet security, cost, and agility requirements
• Contribute to and maintain design and process documentation
• Build an extensible analytics compute environment with Azure Databricks/Synapse that can be used directly by the end user as well as integrated with additional components like Power BI
• Prioritize modularity, reusability, and componentization of solutions
• Enable ease of use with documentation, templates, scripts, and wrapper APIs that allow a data analyst to get up and running with their preferred data sources and compute as quickly as possible
• Work collaboratively with a distributed cross org team of engineers, architects, and data scientists/analysts
• Manage pipelines for CI/CD and Release Management workflows like Github Actions
• Must have experience and understanding of modern Identity & Access Management concepts and best practices

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience with Microsoft Azure specifically in services like Databricks, Synapse, Kubernetes Service, Webapp, Azure Keyvault
• 3+ years of experience with Terraform IaC and CI/CD using Github
• 3+ years of experience with APIs, and cloud architecture design
• 3+ years of experience doing analytics platform/infrastructure work
• 3+ years of experience with a relevant language (SQL, Python or Go)
• 3+ years of experience diagnosing and resolving network connectivity problems, API integration issues, and cloud resource configuration errors
• 3+ years of Cloud monitoring experience with Azure Monitor, Azure Application Insights, and Log Analytics Workspace or other open-source tools

Nice-to-haves

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• Azure Certification (AZ-104) and HashiCorp Terraform certification
• Experience doing analytics platform/infrastructure work in the healthcare space
• Experience integrating with disparate data sources (EPIC, Hadoop, Oracle, etc.)
• Experience working in the healthcare industry with PHI/PII
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to work independently as well as with a team

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution