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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.\nThe Senior Manager of DevOps Engineering is a hands-on engineering leader accountable for the strategy, design, delivery, and operational maturity of secure cloud platforms and software delivery capabilities supporting Claims Global Claims Operations (GCO). This leader will manage and develop a team of DevOps, platform, and site reliability engineers while partnering with application, data, AI/ML, architecture, security, and product teams.\nThe role will establish standardized CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, cloud governance, observability, reliability, and DevSecOps practices that accelerate delivery while maintaining the controls required for healthcare and other regulated workloads. 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communicate tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, investment needs, and progress to senior leadership\nManage vendor and strategic partner delivery, including scope, technical quality, capacity, performance, and knowledge transfer\nDrive continuous improvement using engineering metrics, delivery analytics, operational trends, and stakeholder feedback\n\nSuccess MeasuresImproved deployment frequency, lead time for change, change failure rate, and mean time to restore, measured using agreed delivery and reliability baselines\nIncreased adoption and reuse of standardized pipelines, infrastructure modules, security controls, and observability patterns\nReduced manual provisioning, deployment effort, configuration drift, production incidents, and repeat operational defects\nMeasurable improvement in service availability, recovery readiness, cloud cost efficiency, audit readiness, and developer experience\nPredictable roadmap execution, effective talent development, and strong stakeholder confidence in platform delivery\n\nComply with all applicable Company policies, procedures, and business directives, changes including those relating to work location, team assignments, work schedules, and flexible work arrangements\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience\n12+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or related disciplines\n5+ years of experience leading engineers and engineering managers or senior technical leads, including performance management, hiring, coaching, and delivery accountability\n5+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud solutions on AWS in enterprise environments\nDemonstrated experience establishing mature CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, DevSecOps, observability, and release-management capabilities at scale\nSolid experience with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or comparable CI/CD platforms; Terraform or comparable Infrastructure-as-Code tooling; and modern artifact and source-control practices\nExperience with containers and cloud-native platforms, including Docker and Kubernetes/EKS, plus production operations for distributed systems\nExperience leading production operations, incident management, root-cause analysis, disaster recovery, and reliability improvement programs\nSolid understanding of cloud security, identity and access management, secrets management, vulnerability management, policy enforcement, and audit controls\nWorking proficiency in one or more automation languages such as Python, Go, PowerShell, or Bash\nProven ability to communicate technical strategy, delivery status, operational risk, and investment tradeoffs clearly to technical and executive audiences\nPreferred Qualifications:\nRelevant certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect/DevOps Engineer, Kubernetes, Terraform, ITIL, or security certifications\nExperience supporting healthcare claims, financial, or other regulated and high-availability technology environments\nExperience building internal developer platforms, reusable cloud foundations, golden paths, or platform-as-a-product capabilities\nExperience with AWS services such as IAM, VPC, EKS, ECS, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, RDS, DynamoDB, KMS, Secrets Manager, and related governance services\nExperience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or comparable tools\nExperience with software supply-chain security, SBOMs, artifact signing, SAST/DAST/SCA, container security, and policy-as-code\nProven exposure to data platform delivery, event streaming, Kafka, MLOps, LLMOps, RAG, generative AI, or agentic AI production patterns\nCore Leadership & Technical Competencies\nPeople Leadership - Team building, coaching, performance management, talent development, succession planning, and inclusive leadership\nPlatform Engineering - Internal developer platforms, reusable delivery patterns, self-service automation, platform adoption, and product thinking\nCI/CD & Release Engineering - GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, artifact management, test integration, quality gates, progressive delivery, and rollback\nCloud & Infrastructure - AWS architecture, Terraform, containers, Kubernetes/EKS, serverless, networking, IAM, resilience, and cost optimization\nDevSecOps - Secure SDLC, SAST/DAST/SCA, secrets, vulnerability management, policy-as-code, auditability, and software supply-chain controls\nSRE & Observability - SLIs/SLOs, logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, incident management, capacity, availability, disaster recovery, and performance\nAutomation & Engineering - Python/Go/PowerShell/Bash, APIs, configuration management, testing, design standards, and engineering quality\nAI/Data Enablement - DataOps, MLOps/LLMOps integration, AI release controls, lineage, evaluation, runtime monitoring, and containment patterns\nExecution & Influence - Roadmap ownership, prioritization, dependency management, vendor leadership, executive communication, and cross-functional influence\nAt 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. 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