DevOps Engineer
Company: Optum
Location: Eden Prairie, MN (Remote)
Salary: $72,800 - $130,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-07-26
About this role
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 will enjoy the flexibility to telecommute\* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions, platforms, and automations to optimize DevOps workflows, enhance operational efficiency, and address complex infrastructure challenges. Manage, monitor, and optimize Azure resources including VMs, storage, VNets, firewalls, Key Vaults, Function Apps, and App Services to ensure high performance and secure execution
- Provision, configure, and support Databricks workspaces, clusters, pools, jobs, and access controls in close collaboration with data engineering teams.Build and maintain robust GitHub Actions pipelines for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) across infrastructure and application workloads
- Automate cloud infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, primarily Terraform, while maintaining secure integrations between Azure, GitHub, and service principals
- Partner with security teams to manage and remediate vulnerabilities across Azure resources and GitHub repositories, addressing findings from tools like Defender for Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security
- Configure, support, and troubleshoot Azure networking components, including VNets, NSGs, load balancers, private endpoints, VPN/ExpressRoute connections, and firewalls across h...