Lead Cloud Software Engineer - Hybrid in Eden Prairie, MN or Remote
UnitedHealth Group
- Eden Prairie, MN
- $104,700-190,400 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Designing, building and operating secure cloud platform services and software that meet business requirements
- Leading a team of cloud platform engineers to ensure technical solutions align with architectural principles, design patterns, and security requirements
- Innovate to improving efficiency, reducing technical drag, and create usable app patterns
- Practice SRE principles, to eliminating repetitive tasks, monitor performance, simplifying work practices, defining outcomes and metrics, and assure operational quality
- Manage security controls at the platform layer to enable the organization to operate securely, efficiently, and within policy
- Assist multiple partner teams to understand and apply information security guidance and standards with the goal of mitigating information security risks
- Providing coaching, mentoring, and leadership to the Cloud Platform team to enhance their skills and knowledge
- 5+ years of experience as software development engineer or equivalent hands-on experience producing code for production systems
- 3+ years of experience in Public Cloud such as AWS, Azure, GCP beyond basic IaaS functionality
- 3+ years of experience programming in at least one high-level language (Python, Golang, JavaScript, etc.)
- 2+ years of engineering experience in building infrastructure using code and repeatable designs
- 2+ of years of experience with the software build cycle
- 2+ years of experience in automation of CI/CD using GitHub actions or similar and source control system such as Git
- 2+ years of experience with Agile/lean development practice as a leader
- Experience with containers and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes
- Evidence based approach to making decisions and solving problems
- Design mindset – capable of building distributed/scalable services
- Algorithms, data structures, OO design and other CSCI concepts
- API design and lifecycle management (REST, etc.)
- Application foundations and frameworks (Spring, Flask, etc.)
- Data storage, caching and optimization (NoSQL databases, Redis, PostgreSQL, etc.)
- Inter-service messaging and streams discovery (SQS, Pub/Sub Kafka, etc.)
- Instrumentation, logging and tracing (Prometheus, CloudWatch, Stack Driver, Azure Monitor etc.)