Job Description

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)

Positions in this function design, engineer, and manage the organization's infrastructure and operational platforms. From a cloud services model, this includes services commonly thought of as IaaS and PaaS and their underlying foundational components. Additionally, this function also has responsibility for traditional enterprise infrastructure and operational platforms such as email, file transfer, and collaboration technologies, among others. This role must understand functional and non-functional requirements to ensure they can be achieved through system design and engineering to meet the needs of the customers. Work closely with business and technology stakeholders to develop roadmaps for their respective technology portfolios, resolve cross-system and domain dependencies, ensure effective integration among the services offered to the end customer, and efficient usage of infrastructure and operational platforms. Monitor technological advancements and industry trends to influence company standards and ensure that solutions are continuously improved and maintained through product management practices, including recommendations to invest in a solution or retirement of redundant or out-of-date systems. Understand the interactions between systems, the applications and services hosted, and evaluate the impact of changes and additions. Perform analysis on existing systems to ensure performance and reliability, enhance scalability, meet security requirements, and interoperable and maintainable technology portfolio.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Analyzes and investigates
• Provides explanations and interpretations within area of expertise
• Performance troubleshooting and capacity planning
• Troubleshooting, Installation, maintenance, and tuning of Linux / Unix OS
• Prepares installs, and implement Linux / UNIX operating software and associated components
• Be able to tune kernel/System parameters
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum 7 - 8 years of good experience and knowledge in UNIX/Linux (L2)
• Experience with Linux servers in virtualized environments
• Experience on User Administration using LDAP
• Experience on system security, patching and upgradations
• Experience/Troubleshooting TCP/IP, Routing, DNS, NFS
• Knowledge of VMware Administration Virtualization techniques or any other virtualization technology
• Working level knowledge on automation/configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, Python
• Strong knowledge on server hardware and software
• Strong knowledge of host based SAN migrations and good experience with SAN LUNS scanning and mapping etc.
• Knowledge of Performance troubleshooting and capacity planning
• Knowledge of Troubleshooting, Installation, maintenance, and tuning of Linux / Unix OS
• Proficient with LVM and Linux File systems
• Ability to prepare installs, and implement Linux / UNIX operating software and associated components
• Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Very good written and verbal communication skills

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care 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)