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.** We are seeking an Architecture Analyst to support and enhance the end‑to‑end Bare Metal Imaging (BMI) platform. This role focuses on maintaining image build and release pipelines, managing firmware and BIOS configurations, supporting OS provisioning, and ensuring platform reliability, stability, performance, and compliance. The ideal candidate will work across multiple technologies-including automation, infrastructure‑as‑code, hardware management, and CI/CD-to triage defects, optimize service health, and implement forward‑looking roadmap initiatives for Zero‑Touch Provisioning, secure boot, and multi‑vendor hardware support. **Primary Responsibilities:** + Support the end‑to‑end BMI platform including imaging pipelines, firmware/BIOS configuration, and OS provisioning + Triaging, troubleshooting, and fixing defects across the imaging stack + Maintain service health by monitoring availability, throughput, and success rates + Participate in delivering roadmap initiatives for multi‑vendor (Dell and HPE) hardware, secure boot, and zero‑touch provisioning + Implement automation and Infrastructure‑as‑Code solutions integrated with CI/CD, CMDB or inventory, and change management + Balance operational risk to minimize user impact while deploying platform enhancements + Enforce SLAs/SLOs, observability standards, alerting mechanisms (logs, metrics, traces), and security controls + Collaborate across teams to ensure stable and scalable imaging service operations + Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so **Required Qualifications:** + 3+ years of hands‑on Python programming experience + Experience developing applications using Django or FastAPI + Front‑end experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and frameworks such as React or Angular + Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible, or Puppet + Experience with infrastructure‑as‑code tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, or Helm + Experience with Docker and containerization concepts + Scripting experience in Bash and Python + Experience supporting HPE and Dell hardware platforms + Hands‑on experience applying firmware updates + Working knowledge of GitHub Actions + Familiarity with networking fundamentals: DNS, load balancing, reverse proxying + Proven solid Linux administration and troubleshooting skills _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._