Principal Site Reliability Engineer

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Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States Salary: $134,600 - $230,800/year

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United Health Group 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  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 experience8+ years of relevant experience in SRE, software engineering, or infrastructure engineering5+ years of experience operating at enterprise scale influencing strategy across multiple teams4+ 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

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