Senior Principal OpenShift and Linux Platform Engineer - Remote
Burnsville, Dakota County, Minnesota, 55306, USA
Listed on 2026-07-26
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IT/Tech
Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Systems Engineer, SRE/Site Reliability, Unix/Linux
Improve the lives of others while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Job Description
- Senior Principal Open Shift and Linux Platform Engineer
- Remote (2369588)
Senior Principal Open Shift and Linux Platform Engineer
- Remote - 2369588
Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care’s most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives.
Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Do you want the opportunity to build and innovate with autonomy? Do you enjoy pushing platforms and infrastructure to new levels of performance and reliability? Do you want to work alongside talented teammates who value collaboration, trust, and positive intent? At United Health Group, we're redefining how technology powers healthcare for millions of people. Every day, our engineers design, build, and operate some of the most advanced enterprise platforms in the industry-delivering the reliability, scale, security, and innovation that healthcare depends on.
We're looking for a Senior Kubernetes & Linux Platform Engineer who thrives on solving complex infrastructure challenges and wants to work with cutting-edge technologies including Red Hat Open Shift, Kubernetes, Linux, automation, high-performance storage, and next-generation enterprise computing platforms such as IBM LinuxONE. If you're passionate about large-scale platform engineering, automation, and cloud-native technologies, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact while working alongside some of the industry's top technical talent.
You'll Do
As a key member of our Platform Engineering team, you will design, automate, and operate mission-critical infrastructure supporting enterprise-scale applications and services using the latest state-of-the-art enterprise technologies. Join our team to help steward our on-prem Cloud deployed on High-Performance Compute infrastructure.
You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely
* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.
Primary Responsibilities:- Build, administer, and optimize enterprise Open Shift Kubernetes environments deployed to our High-Performance Compute infrastructure:
- Open Shift Console
- Open Shift Command Line (oc)
- Advanced Cluster Manager (ACM)
- Infrastructure automation and orchestration tools
- Manage and support Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments at scale (Kernal Virtual Machine hosts and Virtual Machines)
- Develop automation and Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Ansible, shell scripting, and modern development practices
- Implement enterprise-grade security, encryption, backup, and data protection solutions
- Configure, administer, and optimize GPFS (IBM Spectrum Scale) distributed storage environments
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure, performance, storage, networking, and platform issues
- Partner with software engineers, architects, security teams, and network engineers to deliver highly available and scalable solutions
- Drive operational excellence through automation, monitoring, and continuous platform improvement
- Contribute to architecture decisions supporting the next generation of healthcare technology platforms
- Familiarity with supporting AI workloads on Linux and Kubernetes platforms
- Leverage enterprise-approved AI tools to enhance productivity and innovation by streamlining workflows and automating repetitive tasks
- Evaluate emerging trends to drive continuous improvement and strategic innovation
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:- 10+ years of Linux systems administration experience
- 5+ years of Kubernetes administration experience in enterprise environments
- Solid experience automating infrastructure deployment, configuration, and operational processes using Ansible, scripting, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices
- Experience with networking concepts including bonding, VLANs, and macvtap
- Experience with KVM virtualization technology
- Experience with Kubernetes container technologies and image creation processes
- Experience implementing and supporting enterprise monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Alert Manager, and Thanos
- Experience deploying and administering Open Shift Virtualization (Kube Virt) to support both containerized and virtual machine workloads
- Experience administering Red Hat Identity Manager (IdM), including LDAP, Kerberos, SSSD, certificate…
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