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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

This position is primarily a Oracle/PostgreSQL production support DBA role with responsibilities that include developing, implementing, and maintaining RDBMS structures to support business needs and application development. Will coordinate, review, analyze and approve the physical database requirements of databases and all associated objects, such as, but not limited to the applications that access the RDBMS structures.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience with Oracle and PostgreSQL (version 12 or higher)

• Very Large DB (VLDB) migration Azure experience

• Must have OLTP, transaction processing, or healthcare experience

• Experience with building/migrating databases to Azure and using Docker images

• DBA tools to do Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning

• Oracle upgrade experience

• Oracle Data Guard, Golden Gate Replication, and RAC is a must

• Partitioning

• Experience running multiple database instances

• Resource Management within database (not people management)

• Ability to work 24 hour on-call support rotation

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• B.S. degree or equivalent work experience with Relational Database Management Systems with Oracle Databases

• 5+ years of experience with Relational Database Management Systems with a combination of Oracle and PostgreSQL (version 12 or higher)

• 5+ years of experience with systems development methodologies

• 5+ years of experience with the design, creation, and maintenance of database structures

• 5+ years of experience with the development and revision of database standards, procedures, and strategies

• 3+ years of experience with Azure VLDB environments

• 3+ years of experience with a combination of SQLSERVER 2008/2012/2014/2016/2017

Preferred Qualification:

• Proven ability to work independently and take ownership of their responsibilities and effectively communicate and follow tasks through to completion

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.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.