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UnitedHealth Group

Principal Cloud Engineer - Remote

Eden Prairie, MN

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.

Enterprise Technology Infrastructure, Platforms & Services (ETIPS) delivers services and operational support to meet business integration objectives. Architecture leadership to provide scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure solutions to meet care delivery business needs and enable future business growth.

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As an enterprise enabling team, we will partner with CIOs and their Lines of Business to build faster, better and cost-effective solutions powered by elastic, resilient and secure infrastructure, services and platforms by:

  • Running 75% of our business in the public cloud
  • Transforming our customer and advocate experience with a modern Omni Platform
  • Delivering Best-In-Class Digital Workplace Experience
  • Accelerating NIEs Integration with Excellence
  • Building high performing, engaged teams

Our culture of integrity, diversity and inclusion is the foundation of all we do. Our platforms and services empower speed to market to meet consumer needs while improving the overall health care experience. We strive to provide an exceptional experience to those with whom we work and serve.

In this position you will be defining, owning, and contributing to efforts to Evaluate, Enable, Improve, and Secure the Public Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). Identifying and driving improvement to the ongoing Public Cloud Platform security posture and operational items. Supporting public cloud platform enabling security products and tools. Partnering with Enterprise Information Security on both proactive and reactive efforts.

The complexity of this role can be challenging. We work on cloud platform enablement and security where public cloud accounts host healthcare technology products and services. Everything you work on will have implications that impact others.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Maintain and operate the public cloud security enablement tools
  • Partner with security, compliance, and public cloud platform engineering to identify and implement cloud platform security gaps
  • Partner with Product leadership to complete security work, provide requirements, and stake holder input
  • Create and drive cloud security operations roadmap
  • Prioritize cloud operations security work by assessing risk and seeking stakeholder input
  • Become a SME on the security products and services used to secure the public cloud for the enterprise
  • Create playbooks with and for Security Incident Response
  • Security anomaly detection enablement and analysis
  • Work with Cloud hosting vendors pushing boundaries on cloud platform security tooling and configurations
  • High Priority on call support owning and driving security remediation
  • Public Cloud Security Hygiene; Key rotations, Security finding remediation, and Security tool enablement drift detection
  • Provide management updates, status reporting, and dashboards from a cloud platform security perspective to demonstrate progress and process maturity. Adhoc data pulls where reporting and dashboards are not in place

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:

  • Undergraduate degree or 5+ years equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of experience architecting, delivering, and operating large scale, highly available system
  • 5+ years of experience with at least 1 engineering/scripting tool such as Jenkins, Terraform, CLI, Powershell, Python
  • 4+ years of experience in public cloud security or equivalent security experience
  • 1+ years of experience in Log aggregation reporting tools, such as: Elasticsearch, Splunk

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Certification in a cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Healthcare Industry experience
  • Experience in managing and using a Public Cloud Platform (GCP, AWS, Azure)
  • Experience in complex projects with division or company-wide scope
  • Familiarity with IT standards and best practices, audit, security and compliance (ex: ITIL, ITSM, SOC2, HIPAA, NIST, HITRUST CSF)

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington Residents Only: The salary range for this role is $104,700 to $190,400 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. 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.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.

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.

Client-provided location(s): Eden Prairie, MN, USA
Job ID: UHG-2219064
Employment Type: Full Time

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • HSA
    • On-Site Gym
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA
  • Parental Benefits

    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
  • Work Flexibility

    • Remote Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Commuter Benefits Program
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Leave of Absence
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Paid Holidays
    • Paid Vacation
  • Financial and Retirement

    • Relocation Assistance
    • Performance Bonus
    • Stock Purchase Program
    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • 401(K)
  • Professional Development

    • Promote From Within
    • Shadowing Opportunities
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program

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