Infrastructure Operations Engineering Consultant

Optum

5 - 10 years

Hyderabad

Posted: 4/19/2025

Job Description

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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Reuses and or develops for reuse code algorithms, or data structures to address common needs
  • Actively follows industry trends in technology, tools, and components, sharing finds with team members
  • Participates in Agile and CI-CD practices, takes ownership of some processes or practices for team
  • Provides ideas on how technology can improve business processes
  • Understand & explains security standards to others
  • Breaks complex topics into meaningful chunks of information
  • Writes good quality code and seeks opportunities to improve the overall quality
  • Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
  • Experience in Cloud technologies, preferrable Azure
  • Solid in either Java or Python programming
  • Proven excellent problem solving skills
  • Familiarity with CI/CD, dev testing tools like Junit & Mockito & other modern engineering practices.
  • Familiarity with source code management systems like GitHub
  • Database Knowledge – Understand SQL and NoSQL databases
  • Solid communication skills
  • Has awareness of the operational characteristics (e.g. security, performance, scalability, manageability) of solutions and is accountable for supporting those requirements in contributed code

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in Containerization and Kubernetes
  • Experience with Log aggregation & monitoring tools like Splunk, ELK, or Datadog
  • Experience in troubleshooting and resolving issues
  • Understanding of Spring and Spring Boot frameworks
  • Code Security Expertise – experience addressing vulnerabilities in code & containers
  • Data Domain Exposure – familiarity with platforms like Databricks and Snowflake
  • Knowledge of CICD Pipelines, tools like GitHub Actions

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.

Additional Locations
Hyderabad, Telangana, IN

About Company

Optum is a leading health services and innovation company, part of UnitedHealth Group. It combines data, technology, and clinical expertise to improve healthcare delivery, reduce costs, and enhance outcomes. Optum operates across three core areas: OptumHealth (care delivery), OptumInsight (data and analytics), and OptumRx (pharmacy care services), serving millions of individuals, employers, and healthcare organizations globally.

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