Principal Site Reliability Engineer Job Eden Prairie area,Minnesota USA,IT/Tech

Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care's most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives.

Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us in making healthcare work better for everyone through people-led, responsible AI while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) leader to drive reliability, resilience, and secure software engineering practices across all critical applications within the Digital Consumer Engineering organization using applied AI.

In this role, you will operate at an enterprise and portfolio level, shaping reliability strategy, influencing architectural decisions, and enabling engineering teams to build and operate highly resilient, secure, and scalable platforms. You will play a critical role in advancing operational excellence, strengthening platform resilience, and supporting long-term business growth.

Primary Responsibilities:

Define and drive enterprise-wide SRE strategy, standards, and operating models across digital consumer platforms
Establish and champion a culture of reliability engineering, security by design, and operational excellence
Influence architecture, platform design, and investment decisions to improve reliability, scalability, and resilience at scale
Partner with senior leaders across engineering, security, and operations to align reliability priorities with business outcomes
Identify and incubate AI-driven capabilities to advance reliability, observability, automation, and proactive risk management
Provide technical leadership and governance for reliability practices across systems including SLO frameworks and availability targets
Drive enterprise-wide adoption of automation and self-healing systems
Lead proactive risk management including threat modeling and resilience testing
Establish reliability metrics and reporting frameworks to drive measurable improvements
Partner with enterprise security leadership to embed security engineering practices into platform design
Drive proactive threat detection and response strategies leveraging automation and AI
Influence and standardize secure development and operational practices
Lead cross-functional initiatives to strengthen preventative security posture
Partner with platform teams to define scalable and resilient infrastructure strategies
Drive adoption of infrastructure-as-code and automation practices
Establish operational maturity and continuous improvement frameworks

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

Undergraduate degree in applicable area of expertise or equivalent experience
8+ years of relevant experience in SRE, software engineering, or infrastructure engineering
5+ years of experience operating at enterprise scale influencing strategy across multiple teams
4+ years of experience with in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and observability
Proven track record of driving large-scale reliability or security transformation
Demonstrated solid leadership and cross-functional influence skills

Preferred Qualifications:

Advanced degree
Experience leading enterprise transformation initiatives
Experience with AI/ML applied to operations or security
Vendor/platform strategy experience

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