Associate Software Engineer II

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. Candidate is expected to have hands on experience with Azure, Terraforms, Kubernetes and so on and should be able to understand design to implement. This position requires sense of ownership and demands very hands-on individual who will be expected to build production grade solutions, PoCs, write frameworks and automation patterns, and contribute in building user stories. The individual will be implementing business requirements to build cloud platform and also contribute with migrating products and platform comprising various tech stacks on Azure. The candidate will also be expected to use and build AI/ML enabled solution to reduce cost and increase overall efficiency and productivity.

Primary Responsibilities

• Candidate must be hands on and be ready to contribute right from architecture building to writing code
• Has seen multiple system being designed and built end to end using java stack
• Be responsible for implementing complex features and components of cloud platform
• Learn new technology fast and implement required PoCs and prototypes hands on to make sure that suggested design/technologies meet the requirements.
• Take care of various NFRs such as extensibility, scalability, security, design patterns, user experience
• Possess/acquire strong troubleshooting skills and be interested in performing troubleshooting of issues in different desperate technologies and environments
• 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 in computer science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience working in industry
• 2+ years of working experience with Azure cloud platform, DevOps
• 2+ years of working experience with Terraform/Chef/Puppet/Ansible, Python, Go, Angular/NodeJS
• 1+ years of working experience with Java, SpringBoot, Hibernate, Web Services, Javascript, Databases, Messaging (Kafka, Rebbit MQ), Dockers, Kubernetes
• Experience in architecting Zero trust solutions and Security patterns on cloud
• Experience building infrastructure as code solutions
• Experience with certificate management, Identity management solutions, key rotations and their automation
• Proficiency in applying object-oriented principles and recommended design patterns to create robust and scalable system designs

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure Cloud Certification
• Experience from Healthcare domain or Academy for Health Care Management Certification

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. #NJP