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)
Information is the lifeblood of the healthcare industry – everything depends on it. At Optum Insight Technology, you’ll help us work on streamlining the flow of information between payers, healthcare providers and various other stakeholders to deliver the right insights to the right places at the right times, driving better outcomes for patients, reducing friction in the health system and lowering costs. Every day our work directly impacts the world for the better, in meaningful and profound ways.
We live in a time of unprecedented technical capability and possibility. Health care is at a pivotal point in this journey where even small gains can lead to major transformation. You could be a part of that you have tremendous skill and the potential to make a lasting impact. Optum Insight Technology is uniquely positioned to bring your skills to bear on these pressing and life-changing technical challenges. The health care industry has an immediate need for your drive, innovation, passion and technical insight. Help us help the millions of people we serve each day. #OptumInsightTech #OptumInsight
You’ll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Working with Software Engineering teams; evaluate performance specifications, develop performance testing plans and gather requirements to implement such plans. This includes automation requirements and data requirements to simulate load for different parts of the application.
- Identify key performance indicator of the application.
- Analyze performance results, a load test generates a large quantity of data, this role requires ability to create reports around this data. A combination of statistical understanding of metrics such average, percentiles, time series, trends is needed.
- Provide timely feedback to software engineering teams to help define and drive performance engineering decisions to ensure the stability, reliability and availability of applications and services
- Create and maintain performance engineering load simulation scripts
- Create and maintain data generation scripts
- Analyze all aspects of existing application infrastructure and recommend modifications that will enhance application reliability, availability and scalability
- Engage in capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning
- Performance analysis using APM and other monitoring tools to identify system performance issues and bottlenecks
- Work with log aggregation tools like Splunk and ELK
- Analyze dump files and error codes
- Provide Root Cause Analysis
- Troubleshoot, research and analyze complex problems
- Provide Support for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
- You will be involved in solving moderately complex problems and/or conduct moderately complex analysis
- You will provide explanation and information to others including Senior Leadership on challenging issues
- You will identify / quantify scope and impact of business changes on systems
- You will maintain awareness of current technology assets, and the applicability and capability of each
- Participate in on – call rotation maintaining application availability
- Other responsibilities as determined necessary
You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of experience as a performance engineer or related area
- 1+ years Loadrunner experience or Jmeter experience or similar load testing tool
- 1+ years Splunk experience, ability to write complex searches, extract fields using regular expressions, understanding of stats and other aggregation command
- 1+ years Scripting Experience (Powershell, Bash, Ruby, Python etc.)
- 1+ years of experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure problems in an enterprise environment
- 1+ years Knowledge and understanding of statistics concepts average, percentiles, time series, trends, outliers
- 1+ years Ability to communicate analysis including trends and opportunities to improve service availability
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Splunk, advance understanding of the Splunk query language
- Any relevant industry certifications
- APM experience with New Relic, Dynatrace or equivalent
What are the reasons to consider working for UnitedHealth Group? Put it all together competitive base pay, a full and comprehensive benefit program, performance rewards, and a management team who demonstrates their commitment to your success. Some of our offerings include:
- Paid Time Off which you start to accrue with your first pay period
- 8 Paid Holidays
- Medical Plan options along with participation in a Health Spending Account or a Health Saving account
- Dental, Vision, Life& AD&D Insurance along with Short-term disability and Long-Term Disability coverage
- 401(k) Savings Plan with a company match
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Education Reimbursement
- Employee Discounts
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Referral Bonus Program
- Voluntary Benefits (pet insurance, legal insurance, LTC Insurance, etc.)
To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including boosters, as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment
Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.(sm)
Colorado, Connecticut or Nevada Residents Only: The salary range for Colorado residents is $82,100 to $146,900. The salary range for Connecticut / Nevada residents is $90,500 to $161,600. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.
*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.
