IAM Cloud - Senior DevOps Engineer- Remote or Hybrid in MN or DC

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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

IAM Cloud - Identity Engineering team at UHG specializes in developing capabilities that enable our cloud enterprise applications, while also protecting our cloud assets, data and services. As a member of this innovative agile team, you will collaborate with others to maintain and optimize capabilities to secure our growing dynamic cloud computing environments. Engineers on this team will work with many popular vendor and open-source technologies, internally developed applications and cloud native services. You will be challenged to provide technical and thought leadership and to succeed in this role, you need to be eager to learn, able to work through ambiguity, problem solve and communicate effectively.

If you are located in MN or DC, you will have the flexibility to work remotely* as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Define and develop solutions to enforce least privilege access policies
• Optimize CIEM tooling capabilities and reporting workflows
• Develop and maintain guardrails to enforce/measure IAM cloud compliance with regulatory requirements
• Develop automation and other modernized capabilities to improve Entra ID services and performances
• Develop and implement disaster recovery and data backup strategies and solutions to maintain business continuity
• Monitoring, logging, and analyzing system performance using Azure operations suite to maintain system health and optimize costs
• Lead cloud migration and modernization initiatives
• Advise on best practices for cloud security, reliability, and scalability
• Drive innovation and discovery efforts around new Azure features and services
• Participates in the development of prototypes and large-scale proof of concepts
• Maintain knowledgeable around current application security controls

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:

• 2+ years of hands-on experience in/with:
  • Entra ID and Entra Connect Sync
  • Azure Identity and Access Management concepts and security frameworks
  • Deploying and operating resources in Azure
  • Operating with cloud platforms, APIs and event-driven automation
  • Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) and experience working with CI/CD technologies such as git and Terraform
  • Developing and managing Organization policies
  • Federation technologies and protocols such as SAML, OAuth, OIDC, etc.
• Proficient with popular scripting and programming language frameworks such as Python, Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK, Microsoft Graph API, Shell Scripting languages

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications: CompTIA Security+, Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Security Engineer Associate, Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals, Azure Fundamentals, AWS Cloud Practitioner, AWS Security (Specialty), CCSP or similar
• Working experience in/with:
  • Deploying and operating resources in AWS and GCP
  • Multi-factor authentication, user provisioning, service principal governance/management, privileged Identity management (PIM), single sign-on (SSO), domain management
  • Cloud IAM functionality across multiple public cloud services (IAM Roles, Permissions and Policies)
• Experience with Implementing and managing Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) to meet organizational access and security objectives
• Fundamental understanding of PHI/PII data and the restrictions around it using limited data sets/de-identified data for analysis/development and testing where applicable
• Advocate CI/CD and DevOps best practices

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

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer 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 us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $91,700 to $163,700 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

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.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.