Principal Architect

Requisition Number: 2339367
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.
Working time- EST time zone
Primary Responsibilities:

• Design large scale enterprise WAN, SD-WAN, LAN, WLAN including switches, firewalls, and other network related hardware
• Design and Implement Data Center technologies like VXLAN, Cisco ACI, NSX Overlay
• Design and continuously improve network monitoring and observability capabilities
• Design and management of core services such as DHCP, DNS, IP address Management and Load Balancing
• Defines the architecture and hardware requirements for project proposals
• Design, execute, support day to day service requests
• Design and Manage Network Capacity and Performance
• Evaluates and identifies opportunities for network performance and functionality improvement within the enterprise network
• Participate in the development efforts to bring automation into the network environment
• Responsible for compliance with all applicable policies, procedures, and industry best practices
• Successfully negotiate technical design and deployment strategy with key stakeholders and consumers of the service
• Serve as the platform technical subject matter expert and provide consulting support to the business and end-user organizations
• Produce and maintain timely, accurate engineering documentation
• Partners with Cybersecurity organization in conducting security and vulnerability assessments to ensure compliance with corporate security policies and adherence to best practices
• Integrates technical expertise with communication, leadership, and business skills in a team environment
• Define requirements in support of budget plans and make recommendations for ways to improve performance, reduce costs, and meet business requirements
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

POSITION ACCOUNTABILITY / SCOPE

• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously, while adhering to deadlines
• Demonstrates mastery of the concepts and theory of network security, and possess adept knowledge of data networking, including expertise in switching, routing, directory services, and TCP/IP fundamentals
• Demonstrates a solid customer-centric approach and excellent communications skills
• Responsible for the global landscape of the network/compute and security infrastructure

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Telecommunication, or other related field - or combination of experience / education
• 8+ years network experience with multinational enterprises of 5000+ users including network design
• Expertise in designing enterprise scale routing and switching environments, MPLS / VPN, SD-WAN, WLAN, Virtualization, ACI, Storage, Network Topologies, Load balancing, and QoS and Cisco ACI
• Knowledge of multitenancy environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with the following products / environments preferred:
  • Cisco Routers and Switches
  • Cisco/ Viptela SDWAN or SDWAN technologies
  • Infoblox
  • CISCO DNA center
  • Cloud networking
  • Palo Alto Firewalls
  • Storage
  • Virtualization
  • Compute
  • Citrix NetScaler
  • F5 Load Balancer (GTM and LTM)
  • Cisco ACI
  • Zscaler
  • API Based Automation
  • Splunk
  • Service Now
  • WAN acceleration
  • Intrusion Prevention, Cloud Security (Zscaler and other security solutions), Firewall Monitoring Tools
• Experience in healthcare related industries
• Experience in regulated environments
• Knowledge of Virtualization/Compute/Cloud and storage

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.