Advisory Manager, Azure Administrator - Remote

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.

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

Primary Responsibilities:

• Establish, configure and setup virtual networks
• Monitor resources and log analytics
• Azure resource management skills to reduce cost and compute resources
• Design and implement disaster recovery, fail-over environments for recovery
• Design, implement and manage storage patterns
• Design, implement and manage security patterns to encrypt data in transit, at rest, in use
• Monitor vulnerabilities and design and implement security patterns to remove threats and attacks
• Creating servers and databases for functionality
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications
• Research and identify solutions to software and hardware issues
• Prioritize, Diagnose and troubleshoot technical issues, networking issues effectively
• Properly escalate unresolved issues to appropriate internal teams

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:

• 5+ years of experience in open-source frameworks such as .NET, JavaScript, SQL Server, and HTML5
• 3+ years of hands-on experience using DevOps tools in a cloud environment, such as Docker, GitHub, Kubernetes, Nginx, Apache web server
• 3+ years of hands-on experience administration and programming in Azure Cloud Platform
• Proven solid knowledge of the Azure platform's key services, workloads, governance, networking, databases and security
• Exposure to technical know-how of Microservices, overview of distributed systems, Web applications
• Proven excellent written and verbal communication skills with background in technical and business communications
• Proven excellent inter-personal skills, comfortable and successful establishing professional relationships
• Demonstrated ability to meet critical time-sensitive objectives, emphasis on planning skills
• Proven good organizational, project management, analytical, problem solving and verbal/written communication skills
• Ability to travel 25% when required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Azure Certifications

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Rhode Island, Washington, Washington, D.C. Residents Only: The salary range for this role is $104,700 to $190,400 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. 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.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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 marginalized 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/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.