Principal Data & DevOps Engineer

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. About the Role:In healthcare, evolution doesn’t just happen. It takes innovation, imagination, and a passion for solving problems in new and better ways. And innovation is taking place at a lightning-fast pace every day at Optum. As the fastest growing part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, we’re expanding our team in Ireland and creating excellent opportunities for those who want greater purpose and more impact in their work. We’ll provide the investment, support, and resources to advance your career. You’ll provide the talent, ambition, and drive. This position will own and manage Azure cloud infrastructure and related data architecture supporting complex risk models (statistical/AI/ML). The position will also design, build and maintain the data architecture components required to ingest data from sources and expose data to downstream consumers. You should be familiar with data products and compute choices in the public cloud eco-system and understand how best to secure and manage these services in a high-availability environment.Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model. Primary responsibilities• Maintain Azure cloud infrastructure across prod and non-prod environments• Maintain monitoring and alerting within Azure• Identify and resolve security and compliance vulnerabilities• Build infrastructure using code and repeatable designs in Terraform• Automate of CI/CD using GitHub Actions [Pipeline as Code] and source control system in Git• Design, configure, manage data engineering infrastructure on the cloud (Databricks/Azure DataFactory/Azure Data Lake) • Maintain data ingestion and exposure (including via APIs) with high security and availability• Ensure data quality standards are established and enforced• Troubleshoot production support issues post-deployment and come up with solutions as required• Deliver on cost management objectives• Identify opportunities for improvement, optimize performance and scalability of existing solutions• Setup and maintain related documentation and standards• Prioritize and manage work to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environmentRequired qualifications:• Extensive hands-on experience developing data pipelines that demonstrate a strong understanding of software engineering principles • Experience working with both real-time and batch data, knowing the strengths and weaknesses of both and when to apply one over another • Experience developing and deploying APIs • Expert skills in Python, SQL, Spark• Experience designing best practice Data Architecture, Data Quality and Data Security process and implementing those utilizing the latest tools and technologies• Experience using DevOps tools, Git workflow and building CI/CD pipelines • Experience working with Terraform for cloud infrastructure automation and management • Bring innovative ideas to help continuously improve the application portfolio including the design, build, deploy, test and runtime within cloud ecosystems• Proven critical thinking skills and persistence to solve complex problems• Flexibility to take on various responsibilities in a start-up like team atmosphere Preferred qualifications:• Have a solid understanding of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning capabilitiesPlease 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. © UnitedHealth Group. All rights reserved.