Sr Dir I O Engineering - Remote

Eden Prairie, Minnesota (United States) Overview In this role you will lead the DevOps and SRE horizontal function for Optum Health Financial Tech, overseeing 70-100+ engineers across multiple platforms. You'll define multi-year strategy, CI/CD standards, and enterprise observability to drive reliability, FinOps, and cost efficiency. You'll manage high-stakes incidents, outages, and security demands while aligning AI-enabled tooling with engineering goals. This is a mission-driven opportunity to shape scalable, secure operations within a healthcare tech environment. You will work remotely in the U.S. with in-office presence required for certain hubs, and you'll partner across cross-functional teams to deliver impactful, responsible AI and Compensation / Benefits comprehensive benefits package equity stock purchase 401k contribution remote work options incentive and recognition programs Responsibilities Lead a large engineering organization (70-100+ members) to maintain 24x7 operational reliability Prioritize incoming business, security, and technical requests to drive high-impact solutions Navigate rapid operational changes, outages, and security demands with composure and agility Define and execute multi-year DevOps/SRE strategy, CI/CD standards, and advisory on observability Integrate enterprise AI tools and set AI goals within development plans Drive FinOps, infrastructure governance, and AIOps automation to reduce O&M costs Oversee disaster recovery, incident management, and regulatory compliance (HIPAA, HiTech) Establish SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and end-to-end observability Foster high-performance culture with continuous learning and intrinsic motivation Key requirements 7+ years of progressive engineering leadership in DevOps/SRE/Infrastructure Operations 3+ years managing Directors or Managers and multi-functional teams 3+ years owning 24x7 reliability, incident management, disaster recovery for enterprise apps 3+ years directing CI/CD, DevSecOps, cloud/hybrid infrastructure (IaC, Kubernetes) 2+ years managing operational budgets, FinOps cost optimization strong strategic thinking calm under pressure stakeholder management CI/CD pipelines DevSecOps practices Kubernetes