Senior Data Engineer (Exadata)

Optum is a global organization that delivers care aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The Senior Data Engineer - Exadata Platform Engineering is responsible for the administration, maintenance, performance optimization, and lifecycle management of Oracle Exadata engineered systems, ensuring the availability and performance of large-scale platform environments.

Responsibilities:

• Administer and maintain Oracle Exadata Database Machine, ZDLRA, and Exadata Cloud environments, including compute nodes, storage cells, operating systems, networking, and supporting platform components
• Manage Exadata infrastructure performance, capacity planning, storage utilization, and growth forecasting to ensure platform scalability and reliability
• Configure, monitor, and optimize Exadata-specific infrastructure technologies, including Smart Scan, Storage Indexes, Smart Flash Cache, and IORM
• Administer and support Exadata networking, backup infrastructure, and disaster recovery platform components
• Monitor system health, performance, and availability using Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), including alert management, reporting, and operational support
• Support Exadata deployments, migrations, and platform operations across on-premises, OCI, Exadata Cloud Service (ExaCS), KVM, OCI@Azure, and OCI@AWS environments
• Develop and maintain automation solutions for platform administration, monitoring, patching, and operational processes using Ansible, Python, and Shell scripting
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex Exadata platform issues
• Participate in incidents, problems, change, and on-call support processes to ensure platform stability, availability, resiliency, and operational excellence

Requirements:

• High School Diploma/GED
• 5+ years of hands-on experience administering Oracle Exadata engineered systems in production environments
• 5+ years of experience supporting Exadata infrastructure, including storage cells, compute nodes, operating systems, and networking
• 5+ years of experience monitoring and optimizing Exadata environments using features such as Smart Scan, Storage Indexes, Smart Flash Cache, and IORM
• 5+ years of experience with Exadata capacity planning, storage management, backup infrastructure, and high availability/disaster recovery platforms
• 4+ years of experience troubleshooting complex Exadata infrastructure issues
• 4+ years of experience automating administrative processes using Ansible, Python, Shell scripting, or similar tools
• 4+ years of experience with Incident, Problem, and Change Management processes in enterprise production environments
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• 1+ years of experience with ZDLRA administration would be an added benefit
• Experience supporting Exadata Cloud Service (ExaCS), OCI, Oracle Database@Azure, or Oracle Database@AWS environments strongly preferred
• Experience with OEM Administration would be an added benefit
• Experience in ticketing tools such as ServiceNow
• All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy