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)

Primary Responsibilities:

• Part of an on-call support rotation to handle support issues working with application teams to troubleshoot and fix issues
• Design, modify, develop, write and implement software programming applications in support of the API Gateway
• Participate in the testing process through test review and analysis, and skilled in Agile development methodologies, including unit testing and continuous integration
• Working on an Agile team, participating in Scrum ceremonies and working as a team to fix bugs and work on new features for Kong API Gateway and supporting applications
• Customer interaction providing support for Gateway issues by reading Splunk logs and troubleshooting the network stack
• Developing Plugins and features into Kong API Gateway product and contributing back to open source
• Enhancing monitoring/alerting of application using Splunk and Grafana/Prometheus
• Troubleshooting of network issues using Splunk and working with other teams such as Firewall, F5, and private cloud teams
• 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:

• Experience with Cassandra, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana
• OSI L4 and L7 networking knowledge, TCP/IP, TLS, IP/DNS
• Direct API Gateway knowledge including Nginx, OpenResty/Kong/APIGee
• Java/Python/LUA development knowledge
• CI/CD leveraging Github/Docker/Jenkins knowledge
• System Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices knowledge
• Public Cloud automation tools - Terraform knowledge

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)