This pioneering position is responsible for helping to drive Optum application development forward by implementing and administering the Continuous Delivery Service offering enterprise grade Build, SCM, Binary Repo, and Pipeline/Deployment solutions for distributed applications within Optum Technology/United Health Group.

Our ideal candidate can become a productive Continuous Delivery engineer quickly, and will help with our suite of CICD tools including: Jenkins, Artifactory, XL Deploy, XL Release, and GitHub Enterprise! You have familiarity with Cloud infrastructure and Continuous Delivery methodology that help development teams produce pipelines that improve software quality. You keep current with new technologies and SDLC concepts. When you face obstacles, you work through them. Constraints make you creative and you constantly look for opportunities to improve.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Providing enterprise level support for Continuous Delivery services, including best practice definitions and guidelines, team mentoring and training, and break-fix support
• Collaborating with customer and team engineers to resolve build server or deployment related problems as required
• Help develop forward thinking Continuous Delivery methodologies at an enterprise scope
• Configure, implement, and automate Continuous Delivery pipelines for software delivery teams utilizing Jenkins, and XebiaLabs toolsets
• Providing system support, including vendor and custom enhancements via plugins for Continuous Delivery Enablement Services offerings
• Ability to apply complex principles, theories and concepts of the Agile, CI and CD disciplines and provide solutions to a wide range of complex problems
• Strong critical thinking, troubleshooting and problem solving skills
• Establish integration between tools with existing APIs or create services as needed to fulfill integration requirements between tools

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• First-hand experience and understanding of CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery) disciplines
• Experience working in an enterprise SDLC automated and integrated environment. Encompassing Build, Release and Deploy, Source Code Library control and artifact retention
• Experience with major nix type environments (AIX, Linux, Solaris) and Windows environments

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 2+ years of experience in enterprise application development, builds, and source code management and/or 2+ years of experience using/supporting Build Servers such as Jenkins, Teamcity, Bamboo, or similar CI server
• Experience establishing or promoting DevOps, CI/CD or Agile source/build/deploy best practices
• Experience with container runtime systems like Kubernetes
• Experience building pipelines for cloud-native applications
• Experience scripting and automating application builds using various languages and tools such as Maven, MSBuild, Ant, or similar
• Experience working with automated deployments in a complex enterprise environment
• Experience with containers and the best practices for building container images

TECHNOLOGY CAREERS WITH OPTUM. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do YOUR LIFE'S BEST WORK.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

A Fortune 6 company, we're focused on helping people live healthier lives while making the health system work better for everyone. Here, we seek to empower people with the information, guidance and tools to make personal health choices. We work harder and we aim higher. We expect more from ourselves and each other. And, at the end of the day, we’re doing a lot of good for more than 142 million people worldwide.