Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer- Letterkenny or Dublin

Optum is a global organisation 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 startCaring. Connecting. Growing together.

As a Fortune 5 business, we're one of the world's leading healthcare companies. There are no limits here on the resources you'll have or the challenges you'll encounter.

We have been supporting global healthcare systems from Ireland and the UK for more than 20 years, building a dynamic and diverse team of more than 2,100 talented individuals. With a continued record of growth and stability, we're on the constant lookout for fresh talent to join our expanding teams.

As a member of this innovative agile team, you will collaborate with others to maintain and optimize these capabilities to secure our growing dynamic cloud computing environments. Engineers on this team will work with many popular vendor and open-source technologies, internally developed applications and cloud native services.

Primary Responsibilities of the Senior DevOps Engineer:

- Define and develop solutions to enforce least privilege access policies

- Implement and manage access controls, including role-based access control (RBAC)

- Monitoring, logging, and analyzing system performance using Azure operations suite to maintain system health and optimize costs

- Develop and implement disaster recovery and data backup strategies and solutions to maintain business continuity

- Collaborate with development teams to enable CI/CD pipelines for efficient software deployment using Azure services

- Establish and maintain cloud identity governance frameworks

- Develop and maintain guardrails to enforce/measure IAM cloud compliance with regulatory requirements

- Conduct periodic access reviews and monitor user activity

- Lead cloud migration and modernization initiatives

- Advise on best practices for cloud security, reliability, and scalability

- Drive innovation and discovery efforts around new Azure features and services

- Participates in the development of prototypes and large-scale proof of concepts

- Maintain knowledgeable around current application security controls

You will be rewarded and recognised 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications of the Senior DevOps Engineer:

- Bachelor's degree (or higher) in a relevant subject Or equivalent experience

- Experience as a security-focused DevOps

- Hands-on experience deploying and operating resources in Azure and AWS

- Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) and experience working with CI/CD technologies such as git and Terraform

- Hands-on experience in Entra ID and Entra Connect Sync

- Hands-on experience developing and managing Organization policies

- Hands-on experience with federation technologies and protocols such as SAML, OAuth, OIDC, etc.

- Proven experience operating with cloud platforms, APIs and event-driven automation

- Proficient with popular scripting and programming language frameworks such as Python, Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK, Microsoft Graph API, Shell Scripting languages

Preferred Qualifications of the Senior DevOps Engineer:

- Working experience in AWS Identity and Access Management, multi-factor authentication, user provisioning, service principal governance/management, privileged Identity management (PIM), single sign-on (SSO), domain management

- Working experience with Cloud IAM functionality across multiple public cloud services (IAM Roles, Permissions and Policies)

- Experience Implementing and managing Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) to meet organizational access and security objectives

- Hold a fundamental understanding of PHI/PII data and the restrictions around it using limited data sets/de-identified data for analysis/development and testing where applicable

- Certifications: CompTIA Security+, Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Security Engineer Associate, Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals, Azure Fundamentals, AWS Cloud Practitioner, AWS Security (Specialty), CCSP or similar

Soft Skills of the Senior DevOps Engineer:

- Passionate about innovation and enjoys the challenges of creating something new

- Technical and thought leadership skills and ability to collaborate with others to successfully deliver on large, complex initiatives

- Written and verbal communication skills

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.

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 marginalised 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.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law. UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. © 2024 UnitedHealth Group. All rights reserved.

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