Senior Software Engineer (Cloud) - Austin, TX
Austin, TX

Job Description

There's no better time to bring your software engineering career to the health care industry.

At Optum, you can bring your passion for innovation to an Agile environment where some of the smartest people you'll ever work with are working together to help make the health care system work better for everyone.

When you join us as a Senior Software Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to showcase your technical expertise, making historic transformation in healthcare and changing the way our businesses and consumers engage with technology. You will be challenged with delivering high quality software products to impact the healthcare industry for the better. Here, you'll work at a pace you didn't know you had in you, your performance will be rewarded and, at the end of the day, you'll know you're doing your life's best work.(sm)

You will be a part of a Global Team delivering and managing Communication Products in the Cloud. This Team collaborates with internal and external technology partners to produce high quality secure messaging capabilities.

Primary Responsibilities:

* Responsibility, at a high level, includes application resiliency, availability, reliability and stability.
* Provide on call support for multiple applications as needed
* Provide contribution to development and enhancement of application features.
* Ensure timely resolution of all production issues meeting or exceeding SLAs
* Ensure that the work delivered by the team is of high quality
* Work with business to prioritize production issues for resolution
* Collaborate with distributed teams across the globe on application design and problem solving
* Ensure that all documentation has been updated and that work product meets UDP / SOX compliance requirements
* Conduct or facilitate root cause analysis on all in-scope incidents and recommend a corrective action plan
* Act as a liaison between offshore resources and business / onsite IT management
* Assist in Providing estimates (or coordinate estimates from off shore) on all break / fix, and problem-management activities
* Conduct or facilitate root cause analysis on all in-scope incidents and recommend a corrective action plan
* Provide leadership in critical production issue resolution (both Priority 1 and Priority 2)
* Identify application performance improvement initiatives and implement the same in consultation with the Service Coordinator and Service Manager
* Work with the IT Manager in process improvement initiatives
* Provide status reports to management

Required Qualifications:

* Hands on experience working with Public Cloud Technology (AWS or Azure)
* Experience with Container platform ( such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
* Experience with DevOps a (such as New Relic, Jenkins, GitHub)
* Java J2EE development experience (JSP, Servlets, Struts, Spring and Log4J)
* Ability to be provide on call support on a rotational basis ( once every10 weeks)

Preferred Qualifications:

* App Server experience (JBoss or WAS or Weblogic)
* SOAP/REST Web services experience

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.(sm)

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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