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Medical Mutual employees must submit their applications through MySource.
This is a hybrid‑remote role based out of the Dublin, OH office, with employees expected to work onsite on designated in‑office days each week.
Founded in 1934, Medical Mutual is the oldest and one of the largest health insurance companies based in Ohio. We provide peace of mind to more than 1.2 million members through our high-quality health, life, disability, dental, vision and indemnity plans. We offer fully insured and self-funded group coverage, including stop loss, as well as Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, and individual plans.
Infrastructure Engineer I
Job Summary:
Assists in many aspects of infrastructure engineering, including but not limited to: automation, capacity management, monitoring, scalability and incident response (including off hours on-call support). Assists with implementation of new technologies to replace legacy systems and processes.
Responsibilities:
- Monitors and reports on the user experience, responds to production incidents, conducts postmortems and acts to prevent recurrence of known problems.
- Assists with the day-to-day system maintenance and operations.
- Supports production as part of a 24x7 on-call rotation.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field or an equivalent combination of education and experience
Professional Certification(s):
- Exposure to CI/CD (Azure DevOps, GitLab, Jenkins, etc.), Infrastructure as Code and other modern IT practices
- Exposure to containerization (Kubernetes, Docker, TKGI, etc.)
Technical Skills and Knowledge:
- Intellectual curiosity, eagerness to learn and strong critical thinking.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks in a time-critical production environment.
Infrastructure Engineer II
Job Summary:
Assists in many aspects of infrastructure engineering, including but not limited to: automation, capacity management, monitoring, scalability and incident response (including off hours on-call support). Assists with implementation of new technologies to replace legacy systems and processes.
Responsibilities:
- Monitors and reports on the user experience, responds to production incidents, conducts postmortems and acts to prevent recurrence of known problems.
- Assists with the day-to-day maintenance and operations of Medical Mutual’s systems.
- Supports production as part of a 24x7 on-call rotation.
- Utilizes automation to reduce inefficiencies and eliminate toil to improve the reliability of Medical Mutual’s systems.
- Mentors junior engineers.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- 2+ years of combined experience with operating system concepts, analysis, networking and/or cloud systems
- Experience analyzing and troubleshooting systems
Professional Certification(s):
- Exposure to CI/CD (Azure DevOps, GitLab, Jenkins, etc.), Infrastructure as Code and other modern IT practices
- Exposure to automated configuration management, provisioning, deployment or orchestration (Ansible, Azure Resource Manager, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
- Exposure to containerization (Kubernetes, Docker, TKGI, etc.)
- Technical certifications or equivalent knowledge/experience preferred but not required, in the following domains: VMWare/Virtualization, Converged Infrastructure, Cloud Computing (Azure, AWS), Programming/Scripting (PowerShell, Python, Go, etc.), Citrix, Security, etc.
Technical Skills and Knowledge:
- Ability to drive systematic improvements and contribute at high levels with limited direction.
- Ability and willingness to communicate across functional areas to identify and solve problems, regardless of ownership.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks in a time-critical production environment.
- Ability to research and apply systems and security specifications for the next generation of hardware/software platforms.
- Ability to interpret and evaluate architectural system requirements.
Infrastructure Engineer III
Job Summary:
Plays a key role in many aspects of infrastructure engineering, including but not limited to: automation, capacity management, monitoring, scalability and incident response (including off hours on-call support). He/she will also assist with design and implementation of new technologies to replace legacy systems and processes.
Responsibilities:
- Monitors and reports on the user experience, responds to production incidents, conducts postmortems and acts to prevent recurrence of known problems.
- Assists with the day-to-day maintenance and operations of Medical Mutual’s systems.
- Supports production as part of a 24x7 on-call rotation.
- Diagnoses availability, latency and performance issues; making improvements in code and configuration to meet SLAs/SLOs with minimal manual intervention.
- Maintains and executes automated tools to reduce inefficiencies and eliminate toil to improve the reliability of Medical Mutual’s systems.
- Mentors junior engineers.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- 4+ years of combined experience with operating system concepts, analysis, networking and/or cloud systems
- Experience developing and implementing software oriented towards systems or network automation
- Experience analyzing and troubleshooting systems
Professional Certification(s):
- CI/CD (Azure DevOps, GitLab, Jenkins, etc.), Infrastructure as Code and other modern IT practices
- Automated configuration management, provisioning, deployment or orchestration (Ansible, Azure Resource Manager, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
- Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker, TKGI, etc.)
- VMWare/Virtualization, Converged Infrastructure, Cloud Computing (Azure, AWS), Programming/Scripting (PowerShell, Python, Go, etc.), Citrix, Security, etc.
Technical Skills and Knowledge:
- Familiarity with DevOps and SRE practices
- Ability to drive systematic improvements and contribute at high levels with limited direction.
- Ability and willingness to communicate across functional areas to identify and solve problems, regardless of ownership.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks in a time-critical production environment.
- Ability to research and apply systems and security specifications for the next generation of hardware/software platforms.
- Ability to design, test and document the use of new features and procedures to improve server systems and security operations.
- Ability to gather, interpret, document and evaluate architectural system requirements.
Infrastructure Engineer IV
Job Summary:
Responsible for many aspects of infrastructure engineering, including but not limited to: automation, capacity management, monitoring, scalability and incident response (including off hours on-call support). He/she will also assist with design and implementation of new technologies to replace legacy systems and processes.
Responsibilities:
- Uses automation as a primary tool, monitors and reports on the user experience, responds to production incidents, conducts postmortems and acts to prevent recurrence of known problems.
- Diagnoses availability, latency and performance issues; making improvements in code and configuration to meet SLAs/SLOs with minimal manual intervention.
- Influences and guides engineering and operations teams to implement SRE principles and practices while ensuring architectural and security standards are met.
- Creates and executes automated tools to reduce inefficiencies and eliminate toil to improve the reliability of Medical Mutual’s systems.
- Mentors junior engineers.
- Supports production as part of a 24x7 on-call rotation.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- 6+ years of combined in-depth experience with operating system architecture, design, concepts, analysis, networking and/or cloud systems
- 3+ years of experience designing and developing software oriented towards systems or network automation
- Demonstrated familiarity with DevOps and SRE practices
- Experience designing enterprise systems incorporating the appropriate balance of performance, cost, availability, redundancy, fault tolerance, availability, security and other factors
- Experience analyzing and troubleshooting systems
Professional Certification(s):
- 3+ years of experience with CI/CD (Azure DevOps, GitLab, Jenkins, etc.), Infrastructure as Code and other modern IT practices
- 3+ years of combined experience in automated configuration management, provisioning, deployment or orchestration (Ansible, Azure Resource Manager, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
- Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker, TKGI, etc.)
- Technical certifications or equivalent knowledge/experience in the following domains: VMWare/Virtualization, Converged Infrastructure, Cloud Computing (Azure, AWS), Programming/Scripting (PowerShell, Python, Go, etc.), Citrix, Security, etc.
- Exposure to an IT platform-as-product approach combining Product Management, Agile, DevOps and SRE practices.
Technical Skills and Knowledge:
- Ability to drive systematic improvements and contribute at high levels with limited direction.
- Ability and willingness to communicate across functional areas to identify and solve problems, regardless of ownership.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks in a time-critical production environment. Ability to lead projects with several enterprise teams. Must be able to handle the lead role in 3 or more concurrent projects.
- Ability to research and apply systems and security specifications for the next generation of hardware/software platforms.
- Ability to design, test and document the use of new features and procedures to improve server systems and security operations.
- Ability to gather, interpret, document and evaluate architectural system requirements.
Infrastructure Engineer V
Job Summary:
Act as a Technical Leader, responsible for many aspects of infrastructure engineering, including but not limited to: automation, capacity management, monitoring, scalability and incident response (including off hours on-call support). Also assists with design and implementation of new technologies to replace legacy systems and processes.
Responsibilities:
- Uses automation as a primary tool, monitors and reports on the user experience, responds to production incidents, conducts postmortems and acts to prevent recurrence of known problems.
- Diagnoses availability, latency and performance issues; making improvements in code and configuration to meet SLAs/SLOs with minimal manual intervention.
- Influences and guides engineering and operations teams to implement SRE principles and practices while ensuring architectural and security standards are met.
- Creates and executes automated tools to reduce inefficiencies and eliminate toil to improve the reliability of Medical Mutual’s systems.
- Mentors junior engineers.
- Supports production as part of a 24x7 on-call rotation.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- 8+ yrs of combined in-depth experience with operating system architecture, design, concepts, analysis, networking and/or cloud systems
- 5+ yrs of experience designing and developing software oriented towards systems or network automation
- Demonstrated familiarity with DevOps and SRE practices
- Experience designing enterprise systems incorporating the appropriate balance of performance, cost, availability, redundancy, fault tolerance, availability, security and other factors
- Experience analyzing and troubleshooting systems
Professional Certification(s):
- 5+ yrs of experience with CI/CD (Azure DevOps, GitLab, Jenkins, etc.), Infrastructure as Code and other IT practices.
- 5+ yrs of combined experience in automated configuration management, provisioning, deployment or orchestration (Ansible, Azure Resource Manager, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, etc.).
- Experience with containerization (Kubernetes, Docker, TKGI, etc.).
- Technical certs or equivalent knowledge/experience in the following domains: VMWare/Virtualization, Converged Infrastructure, Cloud Computing (Azure, AWS), Programming/Scripting (PowerShell, Python, Go, etc.), Citrix, Security, etc.
- Exposure to an IT platform-as-product approach combining Product Management, Agile, DevOps and SRE practices.
Technical Skills and Knowledge:
- Ability to drive systematic improvements and contribute at high levels with limited direction.
- Ability and willingness to communicate across functional areas to identify and solve problems, regardless of ownership.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks in a time-critical production environment. Ability to lead projects with several enterprise teams. Must be able to handle the lead role in 5 or more concurrent projects.
- Ability to research and apply systems and security specifications for the next generation of hardware/software platforms.
- Ability to design, test and document the use of new features and procedures to improve server systems and security operations.
- Ability to gather, interpret, document and evaluate architectural system requirements.
Medical Mutual is looking to grow our team! We truly value and respect the talents and abilities of all of our employees. That's why we offer an exceptional package that includes:
A Great Place to Work:
- We will provide the equipment you need for this role, including a laptop, monitors, keyboard, mouse and headset.
- Whether you are working remote or in the office, employees have access to on-site fitness centers at many locations, or a gym membership reimbursement when there is no Medical Mutual facility available. Enjoy the use of weights, cardio machines, locker rooms, classes and more.
- On-site cafeteria, serving hot breakfast and lunch, at the Brooklyn, OH headquarters.
- Discounts at many places in and around town, just for being a Medical Mutual team member.
- The opportunity to earn cash rewards for shopping with our customers.
- Business casual attire, including jeans.
Excellent Benefits and Compensation:
- Employee bonus program.
- 401(k) with company match up to 4% and an additional company contribution.
- Health Savings Account with a company matching contribution.
- Excellent medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance — insurance is what we do best, and we make affordable coverage for our team a priority.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Program, which includes professional counseling, personal and professional coaching, self-help resources and assistance with work/life benefits.
- Company holidays and up to 16 PTO days during the first year of employment with options to carry over unused PTO time.
- After 120 days of service, parental leave for eligible employees who become parents through maternity, paternity or adoption.
An Investment in You:
- Career development programs and classes.
- Mentoring and coaching to help you advance in your career.
- Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250 per year, the IRS maximum.
- Diverse, inclusive and welcoming culture with Business Resource Groups.
About Medical Mutual:
Medical Mutual’s status as a mutual company means we are owned by our policyholders, not stockholders, so we don’t answer to Wall Street analysts or pay dividends to investors. Instead, we focus on developing products and services that allow us to better serve our customers and the communities around us.
There’s a good chance you already know many of our Medical Mutual customers. As the official insurer of everything you love, we are trusted by businesses and nonprofit organizations throughout Ohio to provide high-quality health, life, disability, dental, vision and indemnity plans. We offer fully insured and self-funded group coverage, including stop loss, as well as Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement and individual plans. Our plans provide peace of mind to more than 1.2 million Ohioans.
We’re not just one of the largest health insurance companies based in Ohio, we’re also the longest running. Founded in 1934, we’re proud of our rich history with the communities where we live and work.
We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse and nicotine testing.
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Verify your degree's CIP code eligibility
Check whether your computer science, electrical engineering, or information systems degree maps to an approved STEM CIP code on the official DHS STEM Designated Degree Program List. Mismatches between your transcript and the list are the most common reason STEM OPT extension applications get rejected.
Confirm E-Verify enrollment before accepting offers
Ask your recruiter for the company's E-Verify employer ID or verify enrollment directly through the E-Verify employer search. Many infrastructure teams at staffing agencies or smaller managed-service providers aren't enrolled, which disqualifies them from supervising your STEM OPT training.
Align your I-983 training goals to infrastructure competencies
Your I-983 training plan must list specific learning objectives tied to your STEM degree. For infrastructure roles, map goals to systems design, network security protocols, or cloud architecture frameworks so your DSO can certify the plan without revision requests.
Target employers with active H-1B petition histories
Infrastructure engineers on STEM OPT typically need H-1B visa sponsorship before their 36 months expire. Use Migrate Mate to filter employers by verified DOL Labor Condition Application filings for infrastructure and systems roles, showing which companies have sponsored similar positions.
File your STEM OPT extension 90 days before OPT ends
USCIS requires you to apply within the 90-day window before your initial OPT expires. Late applications void cap-gap protection, which means a gap in work authorization if your H-1B is pending during the October 1 start date transition.
Use OFLC Wage Search to benchmark infrastructure role wages
Your employer's offered salary must meet the DOL prevailing wage for your infrastructure job title and work location. Run the OFLC Wage Search using the relevant SOC code before signing an offer to confirm the compensation qualifies and won't trigger a wage violation on your I-983.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Infrastructure Engineer role qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
It depends on your degree, not just the job title. Infrastructure Engineer positions qualify if your employer can connect the role to a STEM degree on the DHS designated list, such as computer science, electrical engineering, or information technology. Your I-983 training plan must document how the day-to-day work, whether managing cloud infrastructure, configuring networks, or building CI/CD pipelines, directly applies the technical knowledge from your degree field.
What happens to my STEM OPT if my employer loses E-Verify enrollment?
Your work authorization becomes invalid if your employer's E-Verify enrollment lapses or is terminated. E-Verify enrollment is a continuous requirement, not a one-time checkbox at hiring. If your employer loses enrollment mid-employment, you must stop working and either find a new E-Verify-enrolled employer or risk falling out of status. Check your employer's enrollment status periodically through the E-Verify employer search and notify your DSO immediately if enrollment changes.
How does cap-gap work if I'm on STEM OPT when my H-1B is selected?
Cap-gap automatically extends your STEM OPT work authorization from April 1 through September 30 if your H-1B petition is filed before your STEM OPT expires and you're selected in the lottery. Your employment authorization document isn't reissued; your original EAD combined with your H-1B receipt notice serves as proof. Infrastructure roles at large tech employers often process H-1B cap-gap situations routinely, but confirm your HR team understands which documents are required.
What should my I-983 training plan include for an Infrastructure Engineer position?
Your I-983 must identify specific technical skills you'll develop that connect directly to your STEM degree. For infrastructure roles, list objectives such as designing fault-tolerant network architectures, implementing infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform, or managing Kubernetes clusters for containerized workloads. Vague goals like 'gain industry experience' are routinely flagged by DSOs. Your supervisor must co-sign the plan and participate in evaluations every six months, confirming you're progressing against the documented learning objectives.
How do I find Infrastructure Engineer employers who are already set up for STEM OPT students?
Search Migrate Mate to filter infrastructure roles by employers with verified E-Verify enrollment and active DOL Labor Condition Application filing histories. Employers who have previously sponsored infrastructure engineers through OPT and into H-1B status already understand the I-983 co-signing process, the six-month evaluation requirement, and the E-Verify reporting obligations, which significantly reduces onboarding friction compared to employers encountering STEM OPT requirements for the first time.