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Lead Software/ DevOps Engineer - Remote (EST/CST)

Posted 1 day ago by UnitedHealth Group

Primary Responsibilities

  • These represent a significant portion of the day-to-day work and require candidates with strong production operations, incident management, release management, disaster recovery, and service reliability experience.
  • Lead production support activities for critical customer-facing applications and services.
  • Coordinate application release activities, deployment planning, implementation execution, and post-release validation.
  • Manage change requests throughout the approval and implementation lifecycle.
  • Lead or coordinate P1 and P2 incident response efforts, including war room facilitation and stakeholder communications
  • Drive Root Cause Analysis (RCA) activities and ensure corrective actions are implemented.
  • Present incident reviews and service improvement recommendations to leadership teams.
  • Plan, coordinate, and execute Disaster Recovery (DR) exercises across Stage and Production environments.
  • Partner with Engineering and DevOps teams to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities and compliance findings.
  • Coordinate monthly security scanning and remediation activities with QA and partner teams.
  • Support operational governance activities, including service reviews, PLM reviews, and reliability initiatives.
  • Maintain CMDB and Configuration Item (CI) documentation and operational records.
  • Manage operational forecasts, capacity planning, and health service reporting.
  • Collaborate with third-party vendors and external partners to resolve service requests and production issues.
  • Review upcoming infrastructure and application changes to ensure operational readiness and risk mitigation.
  • Support cloud platform operations, including Kubernetes, Kafka, Google Cloud Platform, and HCP Console technologies.
  • Coordinate onboarding of Kafka topics, event streams, and related data integrations.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on automation, reliability, performance, and operational efficiency.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Technology or 6+ years of software engineering experience
  • 8+ years of experience in object-oriented programming language JAVA
  • 5+ years' experience as a lead production support for critical customer-facing applications and services.
  • 3+ years of leading or coordinating P1 and P2 incident response efforts, including war room facilitation and stakeholder communications
  • 3+ years of experience with any one public cloud platform like AWS or Azure or Google Cloud Platform
  • 2+ years of experience with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
  • 1+ years of experience with automation and scripting tools such as Python and Bash

Preferred Qualifications

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with development teams, stakeholders, and management
  • Experience in problem-solving skills on complex technical issues and a proactive attitude towards identifying and addressing potential issues
  • Experience with public cloud platforms, hybrid cloud environments, and migration strategies
  • Experience with REST API design, micro services, and event driven architecture
  • Experience with configuration and deployment management tools such as Ansible, Terraform
  • Experience with configuration and maintenance of services such as load balancers, relational & NoSQL databases, and messaging systems
  • Experience in monitoring and alerting tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana
  • Experience with incident response and post-mortem analysis
  • Demonstrated excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with development teams, stakeholders, and management
Rate:
Not specified
Location:
Remote or Bernards, New Jersey
IR35 Status:
Outside
Remote Status:
Remote
Industry:
IT
Seniority Level:
Senior

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