Sr Platform DevOps Engr, SRE - Remote

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.

We are seeking a Senior Platform Dev Ops Engineer with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience to help build, automate, secure, and operate enterprise cloud platforms and services. This role will be responsible for designing and maintaining cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, observability solutions, security controls, operational processes, and platform standards that enable development teams to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable applications.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer who thrives in complex cloud environments and has experience supporting production platforms, modern CI/CD practices, infrastructure as code, monitoring and alerting, cloud security, incident response, and operational excellence initiatives.

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.

• Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices
• Develop, enhance, and support CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation across multiple environments
• Implement platform standards, reusable automation frameworks, and engineering best practices
• Support cloud-native application deployments and containerized workloads
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions to improve system reliability and operational visibility
• Define and support SRE practices including service health monitoring, operational readiness, incident response, runbooks, and reliability improvements
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex application, infrastructure, networking, identity, security, and deployment issues
• Manage and improve platform security by implementing security controls, vulnerability remediation processes, secret management, and automated security scans
• Partner with development, security, architecture, and operations teams to improve platform reliability, scalability, and delivery speed
• Support disaster recovery, resiliency, backup, recovery, and business continuity initiatives
• Participate in on-call and incident response activities as required
• Automate repetitive operational tasks using scripting and cloud automation tools
• Drive continuous improvement across Dev Ops, SRE, platform engineering, cloud operations, and governance practices
• Mentor engineers and promote Dev Ops and SRE best practices across teams
• Evaluate and leverage AI-assisted tools and automation to improve engineering productivity, operational efficiency, and software delivery processes

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.

• 5+ years of experience in Dev Ops, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or related technology roles
• 4+ years of hands-on experience supporting production workloads in Microsoft Azure
• 4+ years of experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• 4+ years of experience designing and supporting CI/CD…