DevOps Engineer at UnitedHealth Group
Eden Prairie, MN
$72,800–$130,000from the description
Jul 26, 2026
Eden Prairie, MN
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A fully remote cloud/DevOps engineering role at Optum focused on building and maintaining Azure infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and AI-powered automation tools. The engineer will provision and optimize Azure resources, manage Databricks workspaces, write Terraform IaC, and partner with security and data engineering teams to remediate vulnerabilities and improve DevOps workflows.
Mid level · 3+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 5,300 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,550–9,500
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the posting emphasizes writing Terraform IaC, building GitHub Actions pipelines, and developing AI-powered automations (code-shipping work → 15-1252), but also includes substantial Azure infrastructure administration and networking operations that lean toward 15-1244. 15-1252 was chosen because the primary deliverables are built artifacts (pipelines, IaC, AI tools) rather than pure operations.
The degree requirement accepts 'equivalent practical experience,' so no formal degree is hard-gated.
The 3+ years overall experience requirement is the role-level gate; the per-technology year requirements (2 yrs Azure, 2 yrs Terraform, etc.) are captured on individual skills.
Defender for Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security appear together as interchangeable examples of the security-vulnerability tooling requirement; GitHub Advanced Security is listed as an alternative.
'Azure Networking' is used as the skill name to represent the VNets/NSGs/firewalls/private endpoints/ExpressRoute requirement, since the posting names these as a category rather than a single product.
AI/ML developer tools experience is listed under Preferred Qualifications and is marked accordingly.
Azure certifications (Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Administrator Associate) are preferred but are credentials, not technologies, so they are not emitted as skills.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Azure Cost Management, AI/ML developer tools.
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