Senior Software Engineer Lead-Python/Go, Terraform, Cloud at Optum — Gurugram, IND | Base Career

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Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives.

The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best.

Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities.

Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale.

Join us to start Caring.

Connecting.

Growing together.

Optum's Public Cloud engineering team is responsible for developing software, managing security and financial controls, and creating reusable application patterns that enable the enterprise to operate efficiently within the public cloud space.

The Optum product teams leverage this platform to deliver value in a safe, quick, and sustainable manner, aligning with Optum's mission to help people live healthier lives and makes the health system work better for everyone.

Join our team and work collaboratively with product owners, operational staff, and technology leadership in an agile environment to create business value.

Your contributions will be utilized by thousands of Optum and UnitedHealth Group engineers as they develop mature enterprise applications on public cloud.

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The ideal candidate for this position should possess exceptional software engineering abilities, with a demonstrated history of efficiently managing and utilizing public cloud resources.

They should also possess agile development leadership qualities.

As a lead engineer, you will leverage these skills to design and engineer new services and software that prioritize scalability, interoperability, and code maintainability.

Primary Responsibilities

Design, develop, and operate secure cloud platform services and software that meet business requirements
Lead a team of cloud platform engineers to ensure that technical solutions align with architectural principles, design patterns, and enterprise security requirements

Proven excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
Experience with containers and orchestration platforms, such as Kubernetes
Evidence-based approach to decision-making and problem-solving
Design mindset with the ability to construct scalable, distributed services
Proficient in algorithms, data structures, object-oriented programming, and system design
Knowledge of API design and lifecycle management (REST, etc.)
Expertise in data storage, caching, and optimization (SQL and NoSQL databases)
Familiarity with inter-service messaging and stream discovery (SQS, Pub/Sub Kafka, etc.)
Proficiency in instrumentation, logging, and tracing tools (Prometheus, CloudWatch, Stack Driver, Azure Monitor, etc.)

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone.

We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life.

Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes.

We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Senior Software Engineer Lead-Python/Go, Terraform, Cloud

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