The Principal Software Engineer will architect and deploy Azure cloud solutions, lead cloud delivery, mentor teams, and implement security and automation practices.
Requisition Number: 2339277
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Required Qualifications:
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.
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- Architect, design, and deploy Azure cloud solutions for Linux & Windows workloads.
- Lead end-to-end cloud delivery with minimal guidance; mentor engineering teams.
- Build scalable architectures using Azure networking, Functions, Container Apps/AKS, databases, and messaging services.
- Implement Azure security, IAM, HA/DR, and cost optimization practices.
- Design and troubleshoot cloud and virtual networking solutions.
- Build CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions; automate infrastructure using Terraform.
- Leverage AI-enabled tools to improve engineering productivity; maintain ongoing AI skill development.
- Support data migration, streaming, and integration workloads.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams; translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Optional: Contribute to multi-cloud designs (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes, Databricks, Kafka, Python/Go, MLOps/AIOps, and agentic AI solutions.
Required Qualifications:
- Required Baseline Skills / Experience:
- Azure Certification (Associate+ level, verifiable)
- Azure - 5+ years solutioning and deploying applications in Azure cloud
- Lead Experience - 3+ years in a role demonstrating ability to own and drive cloud deliverables with minimal technical guidance
- Experience solutioning for both Linux and Windows oriented applications
- Deep knowledge of Azure services and architecture:
- Azure networking
- Azure function apps (serverless architectures)
- Azure Container Apps / AKS (containerized architectures)
- Azure databases and data migration capabilities
- Azure data streaming/messaging services
- Azure security and IAM
- Azure HA and DR practices
- Azure cost estimation and cost optimization
- Networking (strong understanding of general and cloud virtual networking)
- CI/CD automation using GitHub / GitHub Actions
- IaC with Terraform
- Required AI Experience:
- Completed AI related training (e.g., fundamental concepts, prompting, etc.)
- Demonstrable experience leveraging AI enabled tooling to improve productivity
- Foundational AI literacy (understanding of basic AI ecosystem concepts)
- Demonstrated commitment to personal AI skill development
- Additional Skills:
- Multi-Cloud Experience with alternative cloud providers (AWS, GCP)
- Kubernetes
- Databricks pipelines
- Kafka
- Python (GoLang is also nice to have)
- MLOps / AIOps
- Agentic AI solution development
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.
Top Skills
AI
Azure
Databricks
Github Actions
Go
Kafka
Kubernetes
Python
Terraform
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