[Hiring] Senior Contact Center Engineer @UnitedHealth Group

Role Description

As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you will lead high-level production support and drive reliability, observability, and performance across our enterprise Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) platform. Our team is dedicated to delivering seamless customer interaction journeys by optimizing complex telephony systems and modern cloud integrations. This position is ideal for an engineer who actively utilizes and integrates modern AI productivity tools and scripting into their daily workflows to increase efficiency, automate support tasks, and continuously improve platform supportability.

You will enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

• Design, develop, and enhance proactive monitoring and observability capabilities across Contact Center platforms such as NICE CXOne, Amazon Connect and related integrations
• Collaborate with developers, architects, security teams, and platform owners to establish and enforce logging, tracing, and monitoring standards to strengthen platform reliability and supportability
• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents and customer reported issues, ensuring timely communication, detailed root cause analysis, and permanent remediation steps
• Participate in on-call rotations, manage critical outages, drive cross-team bridge calls, and ensure accurate incident documentation and post incident reviews
• Create and maintain monitoring dashboards and alerting configurations using tools such as Splunk, CloudWatch, Zabbix, Grafana, or similar
• Analyze end-to-end contact flows and customer interaction journeys to identify defects, performance issues, or configuration gaps
• Work closely with CCaaS vendors and third-party partners to improve operational capabilities, optimize integrations, and ensure adherence to best practices
• Conduct change reviews, validate deployment readiness, and help implement safe, controlled releases into production environments
• Develop automation and operational tooling using scripting and enterprise-approved AI tools to improve issue detection, reduce manual effort, and streamline repetitive support activities
• Use enterprise-approved AI tools to streamline software engineering workflows, automate routine tasks, and drive continuous operational improvement
• Evaluate emerging technology and industry trends to inform solution design, optimize CCaaS environments, and drive strategic innovation
• Contribute to knowledge sharing by creating troubleshooting playbooks, updating guides, diagrams, and training sessions for broader support and operations teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree OR 4+ years of software engineering experience
• 3+ years of experience supporting NICE CXOne Contact Center platform, Good to have Amazon Connect experience
• 3+ years of experience as a level 3 contact center production support engineer
• 3+ years of understanding of telephony concepts - (Call Routing, SIP, Agent Desktop, CRM, Chat)
• 3+ years of experience in observability, monitoring, and troubleshooting within large-scale production environments
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with at least two of the monitoring/observability tools (Splunk, Zabbix, AWS CloudWatch, Datadog)
• 1+ years of cloud experience in one of the following - AWS, Azure, or GCP

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field
• Experience leveraging enterprise-approved AI productivity tools (such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or other AI-assisted coding/automation assistants) to accelerate development and optimize daily workflows
• Certifications related to Contact center platforms
• Solid understanding of cloud network infrastructure, API integrations, and secure deployment pipelines
• Strong communication and documentation skills, with experience creating troubleshooting playbooks and technical diagrams for operational teams

Requirements

*All Telecommuters 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). The salary for this role will range from $91,700 - $163,700 annually based on full-time employment.

Application Deadline

This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.