Combine two of the fastest-growing fields on the planet with a culture of performance, collaboration and opportunity and this is what you get. Leading edge technology in an industry that's improving the lives of millions. Here, innovation isn't about another gadget, it's about making health care data available wherever and whenever people need it, safely and reliably. There's no room for error. Join us and start doing your life's best work.(sm)

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage SLO/SME role for LINUX/UNIX platforms to provide professional and timely subject matter expertise. Serves as a key resource on complex and/or critical issues. Provide solutions/workarounds to the issues and concerns with sufficient testing and POCs working with peer teams, customers and leadership ensuring platform stability and security
• Lead projects and initiatives and provide strategical and technical directions for hosting platforms/services (Mainly LINUX/UNIX related). Participates in the development of business strategy plannings
• Define and publish the roadmap, standards and PADU ratings for the hosting platform and services (Mainly LINUX/UNIX related)
• Manage vendor coordination, new technology/tools/OS testing, regular reviews of current/new configurations and provide decision makings towards platform stability and security
• Define and Evaluate system specifications, standards, configurations, guidelines, best practices, working parameters and metrics (new standards and/or modifications/updates to the current standards as required) for various LINUX/UNIX OS versions, hardware/software/application/tools compatibility parameters
• Manage exception requests by authorizing deviations from standards as appropriate
• Provide incident/problem/service requests support. Performs complex conceptual analyses and analyze and provide solutions for performance issues, complex problems and develops innovative solutions
• Manage EHS Product/Service ownership with EDR planning and documentation, Compliance, HAD reporting, AIDE updates
• Capacity management with server counts, licensing analysis and budget planning, technical support to PLM projects. Generate and maintain server reports, inventories of the environment
• Analyze all aspects of the existing LINUX/UNIX infrastructure and recommends modifications that will enhance system reliability, availability, serviceability, and scalability
• Work with teammates, Customers/Clients, and other teams to identify and address systems problems and provide the appropriate solutions and ways for mass infrastructure implementations
• Provide in depth consultation to other teams/application owners/customers. Translates highly complex concepts in ways that can be understood by a variety of audience. Provides explanations and information to leadership/customer/other teams on the most complex issues
• Evaluate new developments and recommend appropriate infrastructure solutions, modifications, new technologies/tools as appropriate
• Provide support during P1 incidents, war-rooms. Engage vendors with critical support issues, provide timely reporting of the high priority incidents to leadership
• Provide coaching and mentoring to the team, peers, other team members. Provide knowledge sharing sessions, vendor-lead presentation to Optum teams ensuring new technology and technical knowledge sharing
• Anticipates customer needs and proactively develops solutions to meet them. Provide escalation support for customers and peer teams
• Collaborative working with other Optum teams, leading technical discussions and driving initiatives ensuring appropriate solutions implementations for mass infrastructures

You’ll be rewarded and recognized 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• 8 years of Level3 experience with Red Hat Linux including Standalone/Physical and Virtual Servers
• 8 years of experience in Administering RHEL (V6, V7, V8, V9) and similar RedHat/OpenSource products
• 8 years of experience in Linux system administration, user administration, file/directory permissions, LVM, maintenance of software and system patches, TCP/IP concepts, NFS, NIS, DNS, storage concepts, performance tuning, HA software (GFS2, GPFS, and Veritas Cluster experience)
• 5 years of experience with UNIX scripting and automation scripting
• In depth knowledge and experience with storage addition and filesystem administration, cluster nodes, topologies, networks, and heartbeat concepts
• Solid understanding of other flavors of LINUX such as AIX/Solaris/CentOS
• Working experience with Ansible, Chef, and other automation & configuration management tools
• Working experience with SAN attached storage, Satellite, Oracle ASM
• Experience with managing and leading P1/P2 incidents, escalations resolutions with a large group of teams including customers and business owners
• Open to learnability and willing to accept challenges with new technologies
• Collaboration, Decision-making, Problem-solving skills and result oriented approach

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience working in an operational support role with an environment of 5000 LINUX servers
• 2 years of VMWare ESX experience
• Experience with OpenSource LINUX as Alma/Rocky
• Healthcare Industry experience
• ServiceNow or other ITIL tool experience
• Knowledge of various monitoring tools, storage & backups technologies
• Knowledge of Grafana dashboard
• Experience of writing CHEF recipes, Ansible playbooks

To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including boosters, as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment

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.(sm)

*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

Colorado, Connecticut or Nevada Residents Only: The salary range for Colorado/Connecticut/Nevada residents is $97,300 to $176,900. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

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.