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# Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** LHC Group, Inc.
- **Location:** Eden Prairie, MN, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $72,800.0 - $130,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Automation of Tests, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Monitoring of Systems, Machine Learning, Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Containerization, Information Technology
- **Published:** August 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/job/us4b161713581448c6cb3710acd8547554/eaa

## About the Role

* Associate's degree OR 2+ years of additional software engineering, DevOps, or SRE experience
 * 3+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or software engineering
 * 1+ years of experience with monitoring tools
 * 1+ years of experience with cloud platforms and containers
 * 1+ years of experience with SLOs and alerting, * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
 * CI/CD exposure
 * Infrastructure as code exposure
 * Incident response experience
 * Automation development experience
 * Exposure to AI/ML concepts or practical experience applying automation to improve operational efficiency

*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.

## Description

The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team at Optum Financial ensures world-class reliability, scalability, security, compliance, and performance of a scalable infrastructure platform that powers diverse financial products. We exist so our customers, partners, and engineers can trust and innovate financial products without fear and with velocity. As an SRE, you will support tools, platforms, and processes while contributing to observability, automation, and incident response. Our team is driving modern observability practices with OpenTelemetry and the adoption of SLOs as reliability measures. You will contribute to automation of our environment and build AI-enhanced platforms to support the next generation of financial technology.
You will enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Primary Responsibilities:

 * Support observability and monitoring solutions
 * Assist with SLIs, SLOs, and alerting
 * Contribute to automation initiatives
 * Participate in incident response and RCA
 * Support cloud and container platforms
 * Partner with engineering teams on reliability
 * Maintain documentation and runbooks

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


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