SRE Lead Software Engineer - Telecommute in New York City, Minneapolis, Seattle

Company: UnitedHealth Group
Location: New York
Posted on: November 23, 2021

Job Description:

UnitedHealth Group is a company that's on the rise. We're expanding in multiple directions, across borders and, most of all, in the way we think. Here, innovation isn't about another gadget, it's about transforming the health care industry to improve the lives and health of others. Ready to make a difference? Make yourself at home with us and start doing your life's best work.(sm)-OptumLabs serves as UnitedHealth Group's research and development hub. Our vision is to create the most effective, affordable, equitable, and engaging health care solutions that improve patient health outcomes and experience, enhance provider experience, bolster health equity, and make health care more affordable. Our teams leverage big data insights, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and disruptive product development while capitalizing on engineering, clinical, and scientific innovations to build innovative health solutions. -If you are located within New York, NY, Seattle, WA or Minneapolis, MN,- you will have the flexibility to telecommute* as you take on some tough challenges..-Primary Responsibilities:-- Actively participate in on-call rotation, when not on call improve operational tooling, frameworks, perform chaos engineering activities.--- Perform root cause analysis and deliver resolution for tools and automation failures.-- Build frameworks that test the performance and resiliency of our platform services/tools-- Build/administer systems and tools that enable engineering teams to observe their applications in production with autonomy (Dashboards, APMs)-- Automate alerts for metrics on performance, cost, vulnerabilities, risk, compliance violations-- Identify and measure SLOs, SLAs and SLIs-- Improve processes/runbooks and champion automation of any manual items around support- Software engineering is the application of engineering to the design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of software in a systematic method. The roles in this function will cover all primary development activity across all technology functions that ensure we deliver code with high quality for our applications, products and services and to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps.-These roles include, but are not limited to analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging, standards, methods, tools analysis, documentation, research and development, maintenance, new development, operations, and delivery. With every role in the company, each position has a requirement for building quality into every output. This also includes evaluating new tools, new techniques, strategies; Automation of common tasks; build of common utilities to drive organizational efficiency with a passion around technology and solutions and influence of thought and leadership on future capabilities and opportunities to apply technology in new and innovative ways.--You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• 1+ of experience years in a role of supporting software and/or cloud-infrastructure in an on-call rotation basis to help with identification and remediation of technical problems at the root cause
• In-depth and proactive communication skills around status of projects/issues
• Proven track record of leading the delivery of large-scale, high-quality systems-Preferred Qualifications:
  • 3+ years of experience leading a team of SREs
  • 3+ years implementing dashboards to help teams visualize logs, instrumentation and other data to ensure optimal performance of the applications-and/or infra
  • 2+ years of experience integrating monitoring and alerting into cloud software solutions
  • Experience creating runbooks, processes, and test plans around reliability, performance, etc. of infra/applications
  • Experience planning and supporting +99.99% availability against critical applications in production
  • Exceptional communication skills
  • Excellent problem-solving skills
  • Highly organized individual
  • Full COVID-19 vaccination is an essential requirement of this role. UnitedHealth Group will adhere to all-federal, state and local regulations as well as all client requirements and will obtain necessary proof of vaccination prior to employment to ensure compliance-UnitedHealth Group requires all new hires and employees to report their COVID-19 vaccination status.-Careers at UnitedHealth Group. We have modest goals: Improve the lives of others. Change the landscape of health care forever. Leave the world a better place than we found it. Such aspirations tend to attract a certain type of person. Crazy talented. Compassionate. Driven. To these select few, we offer the global reach, resources and can-do culture of a Fortune 5 company. We provide an environment where you're empowered to be your best. We encourage you to take risks. And we offer a world of rewards and benefits for performance. We believe the most important is the opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)-Colorado, Connecticut or Nevada Residents Only: The salary range for Colorado/Connecticut/Nevada residents is $94,500 to $171,700. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.-*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.--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.---------Job Keywords:-SRE Lead Software Engineer, SRE, site reliability engineering, New York City, NY, New York, Minneapolis, MN, Minnesota, Seattle, WA, Washington,-Telecommute, Telecommuter, Telecommuting, Work at Home, Work from Home, Remote

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