I O Engineering Consultant

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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities

Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting

Growing together. Primary Responsibilities: Architect and own enterprise-grade Azure cloud infrastructure solutions, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, scalability, and cost efficiency across all environments Design and govern Azure landing zones - including subscription structures, Azure Management Groups, RBAC frameworks, resource tagging strategies, and Azure Policy enforcement Own and evolve the Infrastructure as Code codebase using Terraform and Bicep, enforcing modular, reusable, and DRY patterns across dev, staging, and production Azure environments Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for infrastructure deployments, automated compliance checks, Terraform plan/apply workflows, and application delivery on Azure Implement and manage Azure cloud networking - VNETs, NSGs, UDRs, VNet Peering, Private Endpoints, ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, and split-horizon DNS via Azure DNS Define and enforce cloud security posture - Azure RBAC, Managed Identities, Entra ID, Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and least-privilege access patterns across all workloads Implement comprehensive observability across Azure workloads using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics Workspaces, and distributed tracing - with automated alerting and operational runbooks Lead production incident response - own on-call rotations, blameless post-mortems, SLO/SLA tracking

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