About this role
Senior Software Engineering Lead
Requisition number: 2379109
Job category: Technology
Primary location: Bengaluru, India
Date posted: 08/09/2026
Overtime status: Exempt
Travel: No
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.
Primary Responsibilities:
- CI/CD & Automation
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for build, test, and deployment automation
- Improve deployment frequency, reliability, and rollback capabilities
- Integrate quality gates, security scans, and automated testing into pipelines
- Infrastructure & Cloud Management
- Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Ensure high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery
- Optimize cloud resource utilization and costs
- Containerization & Orchestration
- Containerize applications using Docker or equivalent tools
- Manage container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes
- Implement deployment strategies (rolling, blue‑green, canary)
- Configuration & Environment Management
- Automate system and application configuration
- Maintain consistency across development, testing, and production environments
- Prevent configuration drift
- Security & Compliance (DevSecOps)
- Embed security best practices into CI/CD pipelines
- Manage secrets, certificates, and access controls
- Perform vulnerability scanning and remediation
- Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
- Work closely with development and QA teams to improve developer experience
- Promote DevOps best practices, automation, and reliability engineering
- Document systems, processes, and operational runbooks
- AI Focus
- Design innovative AI solutions to various business problems, utilizing cutting-edge AI technologies like Generative AI, Large Lan