Lead Software Engineer

Position Summary
As a Lead Engineer specializing in DevSecOps on the AI Platform Team within Optum AI, you will drive the architectural strategy, automated infrastructure delivery, and security framework for our enterprise AI/ML platforms across multi-cloud environments, with a primary focus on Google Cloud Platform In this senior hands-on technical lead role, you will integrate robust DevSecOps and MLOps practices into our core AI platform, ensuring continuous delivery, robust vulnerability management, AI security guardrails, and strict compliance.
Work Location Policy: This position is open to 100% remote candidates residing anywhere in the U.S. For any hires residing in the Minneapolis, MN or Washington, D.C. areas, you will follow a hybrid model requiring in-office work a minimum of four days per week.
Primary Responsibilities
Lead the architectural design DevSecOps framework and infrastructure as code automation for multi-cloud AI/ML platforms with dedicated focus on Google Cloud Platform
Represent the AI platform organization in enterprise security architecture reviews threat modeling vulnerability management assessments and compliance audits
Architect build and maintain secure automated CI CD and MLOps pipelines for AI model training deployment, tracking, monitoring and lifecycle management
Partner with cross functional software engineering data science product management and cybersecurity teams to enforce security best practices across the AI lifecycle
Provide technical leadership architectural guidance code reviews and mentorship to DevOps MLOps, and AI/ML engineers across the team
Required Qualifications
Bachelors degree or 8+ additional years of software development DevSecOps or infrastructure engineering experience in lieu of a degree
8 years of experience in Software Engineering Infrastructure Engineering or DevOps with at least 4+ years dedicated to DevSecOps and Cloud Security
4 years of hands on experience designing building and securing enterprise cloud infrastructure across cloud providers, with dedicated expertise in Google Cloud Platform
4 years of experience in a technical lead or architectural leadership role
3 years of experience implementing CI CD pipelines policy as code and automated security scanning tools
CISSP CISM or DevSecOps professional security certification
Experience with healthcare data standards and security/compliance protocols

Work arrangement
Yes