[Hiring] Site Reliability Engineer @UnitedHealth Group

Role Description

As a member of our team, you will:

• Design and operate Kubernetes-based infrastructure with moderate independence to support reliable and scalable applications.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions to reduce manual steps and increase deployment reliability.
• Use Terraform to provision, update, and manage GCP infrastructure using best practices.
• Manage Kafka clusters and pipelines or equivalent streaming systems (e.g., Pulsar, Pub/Sub, Kinesis), including performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Develop dashboards, alerts, and reliability improvements using Prometheus and Grafana.
• Partner with development teams to automate workflows and enhance IaC standards.
• Write Python automation tools that improve operational efficiency.
• Troubleshoot distributed system issues and participate in root-cause analysis.
• Fully participate in on-call rotations and lead smaller-scale incident responses.

AI Builder:

• Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions using no-code, low-code, and advanced platforms, translating business needs into scalable applications that enhance products, workflows, and decision-making.

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear directions on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma/GED (or higher).
• 3+ years of experience with Google Cloud Platform or another major cloud provider with willingness to ramp quickly.
• 3+ years of experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitHub Actions.
• 2+ years of experience troubleshooting distributed systems and working with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or equivalent.
• Intermediate level of knowledge with Kubernetes, including deploying, scaling, and operating containerized applications.
• Intermediate level of experience working with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code toolsets.
• Intermediate level of experience in Python for automation, scripting, and tooling.

Requirements

• Experience with Kafka or other distributed streaming platforms (e.g., Pulsar, Kinesis, Pub/Sub).
• Familiarity with Helm for Kubernetes package management.
• Exposure to cloud security best practices and system hardening.
• Experience optimizing distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Working knowledge of Java to support troubleshooting backend services.
• Familiarity with DataHub or other metadata management platforms.
• Exposure to AI/ML tooling, platforms, or MLOps workflows.
• Golang experience for building cloud-native tools.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Incentive and recognition programs.
• Equity stock purchase.
• 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).

Company Description

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.