Optum Hiring Associate DevOps Engineer in Hyderabad

Optum, a global organization within UnitedHealth Group, is hiring an Associate DevOps Engineer in Hyderabad. Optum delivers care, aided by technology, to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work directly improves health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data, and resources they need to feel their best.

You will provide 24x7 operational support for the Advocate Central platform, ensuring system availability, reliability, and performance across production and non-production environments. This role combines cloud infrastructure administration, CI/CD pipeline management, observability, security compliance, and incident response within Azure cloud environments, contributing to the organization's strategic roadmap of network modernization and cloud transformation.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide 24x7 operational support for the Advocate Central platform, ensuring system availability, reliability, and performance
• Monitor application, infrastructure, and platform health using enterprise monitoring and observability tools; investigate alerts, perform initial triage, and coordinate incident resolution
• Support CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release management activities
• Assist with Azure cloud infrastructure administration, including application hosting, networking, security configurations, and platform maintenance
• Participate in production deployments, change management, and post-deployment validation
• Troubleshoot application, infrastructure, database, networking, and integration issues to minimize downtime
• Maintain operational runbooks, technical documentation, standard operating procedures, and knowledge articles
• Collaborate with software engineering, security, infrastructure, and business teams to implement platform enhancements
• Support security initiatives including vulnerability remediation, access reviews, compliance, certificate management, and security best practices
• Assist with disaster recovery preparedness, business continuity testing, and platform resiliency improvements
• Analyze logs, metrics, and operational data to identify performance bottlenecks, recurring issues, and automation opportunities
• Participate in root cause analysis and implement corrective and preventive actions
• Contribute to IaC, automation initiatives, and DevSecOps practices
• Support network modernization, cloud transformation, and infrastructure enhancement initiatives
• Collaborate with global DevOps teams for follow-the-sun operational coverage

• 2+ years of experience defining, designing, implementing, or supporting CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms
• 1+ years of experience working with Docker or containerized application deployments
• 1+ years of experience designing, implementing, or troubleshooting cloud networking solutions
• 1+ years of experience developing and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus
• Experience with scripting and automation using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar languages
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure security practices and vulnerability management
• Knowledge of Azure networking concepts, including virtual networks, firewalls, load balancers, VPNs, routing, and network security
• Understanding of high-availability architectures, reliability engineering principles, monitoring strategies, and incident management processes
• Proven analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Team-player attitude with the ability to collaborate across engineering, security, infrastructure, and business teams

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Experience with GitHub Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, ChatGPT, or other AI-powered engineering tools
• Experience supporting mission-critical production applications in a 24x7 operational environment
• Experience optimizing cloud infrastructure for both performance and cost efficiency
• Python development and automation experience
• Knowledge of AI model integration and AI-enabled application architectures
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices and cloud security frameworks

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