UnitedHealth Group / Optum is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to drive application design, development, maintenance, and cloud modernization. In this role, you'll focus on performance monitoring, security, CI/CD enablement, and leveraging AI/AIOps for automation and observability, contributing to our mission of helping people live healthier lives.

What You'll Do

Design, develop, and maintain applications.
Monitor, log, and analyze application performance and suggest alerting mechanisms.
Conduct vulnerability assessments and fix issues.
Partner with the development team to suggest proactive enhancements.
Develop and implement disaster recovery and data backup strategies.
Collaborate with development teams to enable CI/CD pipelines.
Conduct periodic access reviews and monitor user activity in production.
Lead cloud migration and modernization initiatives for the application.
Advise on best practices for cloud security, reliability, and scalability.
Use AI tools to automate, optimize, and improve the software development lifecycle.
Implement AIOps for analyzing logs and metrics to enhance observability.
Participate in the development of prototypes and large-scale proof of concepts.
Maintain documentation for current application functionalities and security controls.
Identify opportunities to fine-tune and optimize Java-based applications.
Work on PLM activities.
Partner with stakeholders and dependent applications to create alerts for failures.

What We're Looking For

Bachelor’s degree (or higher).
8+ years of overall IT experience.
Experience with APIs (REST and SOAP) utilizing Java/JEE and Spring Boot Framework.
Experience with MySQL, MongoDB, RDBMS.
Experience with Open Source frameworks, mainly Spring Boot, SoapUI, Postman tools.
Experience with CI/CD Automation: Jenkins Pipeline, GitHub Actions, etc.
Experience with DevOps/Cloud technologies: Docker Container, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure.
Understanding of Firewall rules, Load Balancer (F5), API Gateway.
Experience with messaging platforms such as IBM MQ, Kafka.
Experience and solid understanding of security such as OAuth Tokens, SSL Certificates.

Technical Stack

Languages & Frameworks: Java/JEE, Spring Boot
APIs: REST APIs, SOAP APIs
Databases: MySQL, MongoDB, RDBMS
Tools: SoapUI, Postman
CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions
DevOps/Cloud: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, F5 Load Balancer
Messaging: IBM MQ, Kafka
Security: OAuth, SSL

Benefits & Compensation

Salary: $91,700 to $163,700 annually
Comprehensive benefits package
Incentive and recognition programs
Equity stock purchase
401k contribution

Work Mode

This is a hybrid role. Locations include U.S. (remote), Minneapolis, MN (office minimum 4 days/week), and the Washington, D.C. area (office minimum 4 days/week).

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.