Senior Infrastructure Operation Engineering Consultant

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.
The IBM i / VIOS Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for the design, provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management of IBM Power logical partitions (LPARs) and Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) environments supporting critical enterprise workloads. This role works closely with architecture, storage, networking, security, and application teams to deliver secure, scalable, and highly available IBM Power infrastructure.
The engineer will build new IBM i and VIOS partitions, configure virtualized storage and networking resources, support hardware migrations, and ensure partition environments remain compliant, performant, and operationally resilient. Responsibilities include participation in major infrastructure initiatives such as Power hardware refreshes, data center migrations, disaster recovery readiness, and operating system modernization efforts
Positions in this function design, engineer, and manage the organization's infrastructure and operational platforms. From a cloud services model, this includes services commonly thought of as IaaS and PaaS and their underlying foundational components. Additionally, this function also has responsibility for traditional enterprise infrastructure and operational platforms such as email, file transfer, and collaboration technologies, among others. This role must understand functional and non-functional requirements to ensure they can be achieved through system design and engineering to meet the needs of the customers. Work closely with business and technology stakeholders to develop roadmaps for their respective technology portfolios, resolve cross-system and domain dependencies, ensure effective integration among the services offered to the end customer, and efficient usage of infrastructure and operational platforms. Monitor technological advancements and industry trends to influence company standards and ensure that solutions are continuously improved and maintained through product management practices, including recommendations to invest in a solution or retirement of redundant or out-of-date systems. Understand the interactions between systems, the applications and services hosted, and evaluate the impact of changes and additions. Perform analysis on existing systems to ensure performance and reliability, enhance scalability, meet security requirements, and interoperable and maintainable technology portfolio. Generally work is self-directed and not prescribed.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Works with less structured, more complex issues
• Serves as a resource to others
• AI User Responsibilities:
• Leverage enterprise-approved AI tools to enhance productivity and innovation by streamlining workflows and automating repetitive tasks. Evaluate emerging trends to drive continuous improvement and strategic innovation.
• 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
  Required Qualifications:
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of IBM Power Systems administration experience
• Hands-on experience building and configuring IBM i LPARs
• Experience administering VIOS environments
• Experience supporting high-availability and disaster recovery environments
• Knowledge of PowerVM virtualization technologies
• Understanding of SAN storage concepts and enterprise storage integration
• Proven solid troubleshooting and problem-resolution skills
• Proven excellent written and verbal communication skills
  Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with Power10 and Power11 platforms
• Experience with NPIV, vSCSI, virtual Ethernet, and SR-IOV networking
• Experience with DB2 Mirror, Global Mirror, Metro Mirror, or replication technologies
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise IBM i environments with hundreds of partitions
• Knowledge of IBM i 7.4, 7.5, and newer releases
• Familiarity with automation tools such as Ansible
• Knowledge of performance tuning and capacity planning
• Understanding of security controls and regulatory compliance requirements
  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.