Senior Performance Manager - Plymouth, MN

In the history of health care, there has never been a company that has brought together more collective technology resources than Optum. And there has never been a better time for you to bring your technology career here as we're in the midst of historic work, helping to make the health care system work better for everyone. You're looking for more than a challenge. We're offering you the opportunity for a life transforming potential of bringing health care information to the right place, at the right time, to support crucial decisions.
 
As a Senior Performance Manager with one of the largest and fastest growing health information companies, you will be a part of a high performing, dynamic team with a passion for delivering superior quality. When you join our performance management team, you will partner with development teams and architecture teams to directly impact system performance. We live out our core values of integrity, compassion, relationships, innovation and performance every day, providing you an environment where you can thrive as you do your life's best work.(sm)
 
In this role you will have the chance to work on high priority enterprise-wide issues and performance issues. You will also have the opportunity to discover and solve application and network performance issues using bleeding edge technology. In this role you will gain skills working with an enormous, enterprise spanning environment and work with cutting edge technologies to enhance your career growth.
 
Primary Responsibilities:

Partner with the Enterprise Architect, Development and Shared Services teams, Implementation Engineers and Product Management to develop performance plans that model client usage
Measure application and environment performance, document issues and work with the development and implementation engineers to identify solutions
Capture the requirements for production environment configuration
Generate periodic reports showing current product load and performance against predicted load and target performance goals
Troubleshoot live client issues and identify root cause
Comply with standards of the software development life cycle and Agile processes

Required Qualifications:

10+ year of Network Engineering experience; experience with Lan/Wan/VPN/routing/switching technologies
5+ years of desktop and server operating systems experience such as Linux and Windows
5+ years of experience with TCP-IP stack
5+ years of experience reading/analyzing Sniffer captures with Wireshark/Opnet/Riverbed tools or equivalent tools
3+ years of knowledge of firewall/IPS technologies
5+ years of application performance troubleshooting experience in complex client/server environments
5+ years of experience in Performance Management
5+ years of experience with performance analysis and measurement of technically challenging systems
Preferred Qualifications:

3+ years of Log analysis experience
Health care industry experience
Experience with Agile Scrum methodology
VMware exposure
Netscout NG1 and Infinistream console experience
APM tool knowledge with Dynatrace DCRUM and like products
Ability to work well in a geographically distributed environment with peers across the globe
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)
 
 
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.
 
 
Job Keywords: TCP-IP stack, Lan, Wan, VPN, routing, switching, Plymouth, MN