Infrastructure Lead - Columbia, MD - Full-time / Part-time

In your field, learning never stops. And neither do you. You are continually pushing yourself to reach higher and go further. To do everything you can to ensure a positive outcome for our patients. Staying on top of your game and persevering in the face of challenge will be a big part of your success. And at every turn, you'll have the support of an elite and dynamic team. Join us in this role and you will use your diverse knowledge and experience to make health care work better for our patients, while doing your life's best work.(sm) What makes your career greater with UHC?  You'll work within an incredible team culture; business collaboration that is learning and evolving every day. And, when you contribute, you'll open doors for yourself that simply do not exist in any other organization, anywhere. 

Responsibilities:


Responsible for the day-to-day management of a project's production and non-production environments, including maintaining stable environment configurations to support project development/testing efforts and ensuring that environment capabilities meet project demands

Provide thought and day-to-day leadership

Design, build, and support the server and network Infrastructure. This environment is composed primarily of Linux and Oracle Product Suite.

Integrate and implement a complete cloud services framework (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) and cloud deployment model (private, public, and hybrid)

Work with engineers and developers to define provisioning, configuration, protocol support, and security for cloud services

Collaborate with technical team to deliver a set of complex and/or integrated demonstrations, and where necessary, more complex proofs-of-concept

Maintain stability of the cloud Infrastructure as new products and services are introduced

Monitor and manage Infrastructure capacity

Provide technology direction so that project services are highly available, efficient, and operable with acceptable performance

Solve business needs with technology by evaluating different technology options and vendor products

Minimum Requirements:


Minimum 10 years of professional experience in Infrastructure and technical operations

At least 4 years of experience leading or supporting Infrastructure and operations for large technology implementations

Experience in designing and managing cloud-based IaaS/PaaS/SaaS solutions

Direct working experience capturing enterprise scale cloud and data center consolidation, modernization, and/or virtualization opportunities

Enterprise scale system/software development with particular emphasis on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) using cloud runtime environments preferred

Large scale data center operations and/or design experience with particular focus on performance-based service catalog and cost-reimbursable efforts preferred

Solid understanding and operational experience in high availability, high performance systems

Expert knowledge of cloud Infrastructure, database, network, storage and security, as well as an understanding of the interdependencies between them in an overall service architecture

Experience in virtualization, Linux, and open source technologies

Expert level Linux, including system tuning, kernel manipulation, bind, iptables, etc.

Basic exposure to networking, including routing, switching, and the OSI model

Experience with security, including firewalls, VPNs, and IPsec

Experience with scripting, whether it be PERL, shell, python, etc.

Experience with Load Balancing, virtualization, and web application hosting is a must
Working knowledge of data center operations' best practices and best operating procedures is a plus
Experience with implementation of any Identity and Access Management COTS product, namely Oracle Identity Management, Tivoli, Sun, etc. is a plus
 
Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity 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.
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