Sr Infrastructure Ops Engineering Consultant - NAS

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide technical direction and oversight of the storage platform
• Provide technical direction and oversight for the Enterprise SAN and SAN attached arrays, network attached storage (NAS), Object storage, Cloud Storage and disk based backup/restore technology in a mission/business critical environment
• Evaluate and select new products and technologies
• Drive storage strategies and recommend industry best practices for storage solutions provide proactive storage forecasting, design and deploy effective storage solutions, research new and emerging technologies
• Lead in the planning, design, and implementation of new products in storage area for on premise and cloud environment
• Define and promote standards, guidelines, and policies for the use and integration of technology
• Define key performance indicators and thresholds for storage systems
• Develop technical partnerships with key support, architecture, and operations teams
• Educate customers and provide easy and clear roadmap of the storage platform
• Manage, retain and grow enterprise relationships
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services - from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
• Resource to Senior Leadership
• 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

The complexity of this role can be challenging. You'll be working on strategic programs with responsibility for providing architectural leadership to key initiatives across the organization. You'll be expected to ensure that the programs align to the IT strategy, leverage enterprise components.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field;
• 5+ years of IT experience
• Experience of SAN, NAS, object storage, software defined storage and/or hyper-converged-infrastructure
• Public (AWS, Azure, Google, etc.) and private (VMWare) cloud storage and container technology (OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.) experience

• Netapp StorageGrid and FabricPool experience
• Solid Object Storage (ICOS) experience

Prior enterprise storage engineering/architecture experience including experience with HDS, HP, NetApp, IBM, Dell/EMC, Brocade Fibre Switches, and other storage technologies

Solid systems design and programming background

Knowledge of Python programming

• Familiar with interacting with RestAPI's using common SDKs and Modules

Proven exceptional verbal and written skills

Preferred Qualification:

• Advanced Degree

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.

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Client-provided location(s): Hyderabad, India

Job ID: UHG-2350931

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-03-30T20:36:19