Director, IT Operations

OpenLoop Health, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision coverage

401(k) + company match

Flexible PTO

Life & pet insurance

Job summary

OpenLoop Health, Inc. is seeking an experienced Head of IT Operations to lead a global team responsible for help desk, infrastructure, and security in a healthcare SaaS environment.

You will design reliable systems, drive uptime, and partner with product and security teams to meet regulatory requirements. You will champion AI-enabled operations, implement observability practices, manage cloud spend, and build scalable runbooks and incident response playbooks while mentoring engineers and

Qualifications

• 8+ years in IT operations, infrastructure engineering, or site reliability roles.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 10+ resources for help desk, facility management, SOC policy, and asset management.
• Design and oversee infrastructure architecture for 99.5%+ uptime in a healthcare SaaS environment.
• Co-own incident management, escalation protocols, and post-incident reviews.
• Manage infrastructure spend and cloud resource optimization across AWS, GCP, or multi-cloud.
• Lead technical standardization across development, security, and product teams.
• Identify and implement AI/ML tools to improve operational efficiency and predictive alerting.
• Define operational requirements for AI model deployment, monitoring, and governance.
• Establish observability and alerting standards for AI systems at scale.
• Build runbooks and playbooks enabling safe, rapid experimentation.
• Partner with Security to ensure HIPAA/compliance requirements are met.

Skills

Leadership

IT Operations

SaaS infrastructure

Cloud architecture

HIPAA security

SRE practices

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

AWS

GCP

Job description

About OpenLoop

OpenLoop was co-founded by CEO, Dr. Jon Lensing, and COO, Christian Williams, with the vision to bring care anywhere. Our telehealth support solutions are thoughtfully designed to streamline and simplify go-to-market care delivery for companies offering meaningful virtual support to patients across an expansive array of specialties, in all 50 states.

What You'll Do

IT Operations & Infrastructure

• Lead a team of 10+ global resources focused on help desk services, facility management, SOC policy enforcement, and asset management
• Design and oversee infrastructure architecture for 99.5%+ uptime in a healthcare SaaS environment
• Deliver a helpdesk service to maintain a 95% SLA within the response and resolution framework
• Co-own incident management, escalation protocols, and post-incident review culture
• Manage infrastructure spend and cloud resource optimization (AWS, GCP, or multi-cloud)
• Lead technical standardization across development, security, and product teams

AI-Enhanced Operations

• Identify and implement AI/ML tools to improve operational efficiency (predictive alerting, anomaly detection, root-cause analysis)
• Experiment with AI-driven automation for routine operational tasks
• Work with OpenLoop's AI Program to understand how AI can transform IT operations and share learnings
• Build a culture of intelligent observability - moving from reactive to predictive operations
• Evaluate emerging AI/ML tooling for infrastructure, monitoring, and incident response

AI Program Operations Support

• Work alongside the VP of Enterprise Technology to operationalize the AI Program
• Define operational requirements for AI model deployment, monitoring, and governance
• Establish observability and alerting standards for AI systems at scale
• Build operational runbooks and playbooks that enable safe, rapid experimentation

Security & Compliance

• Partner with Security to ensure operational practices support SOC 2, HIPAA, and state healthcare compliance
• Manage access control, secrets management, and least-privilege architectures
• Own disaster recovery and business continuity planning
• Lead quarterly compliance audits and remediation workflows

Reliability & Performance

• Establish SLAs/SLOs for critical services and own performance against them
• Build a culture of blameless postmortems and continuous improvement
• Design monitoring, alerting, and observability infrastructure
• Lead capacity planning and infrastructure roadmap

Stakeholder Management

• Communicate infrastructure health, risks, and roadmap to leadership and cross-functional teams
• Support product and engineering teams with infrastructure provisioning and troubleshooting
• Manage relationships with vendors and cloud providers
• Mentor and develop operational staff

Who You Are

Required

• 8+ years in IT operations, infrastructure engineering, or site reliability roles
• 5+ years in a leadership role managing technical teams (5+ direct reports)
• Proven experience operating mission-critical SaaS or healthcare platforms
• Deep expertise with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure-as-code
• Strong understanding of HIPAA compliance, security baselines, and healthcare regulations
• Experience designing systems for 99.5%+ uptime and handling production incidents
• Track record of building strong operational cultures (automation-first, blameless postmortems, on-call excellence)
• Comfortable in ambiguity—ability to build processes from scratch in a fast-growing organization

Preferred

• Experience building IT organizations in early-stage/hypergrowth companies
• Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and modern DevOps stacks
• Background in healthcare (EMR/EHR systems, telehealth platforms, etc.)
• Experience supporting machine learning or AI infrastructure at scale
• Familiarity with database operations, replication, and backup/recovery strategies
• Knowledge of healthcare data architecture and privacy requirements
• Startup experience or consulting background
• Experience evaluating or implementing AI/ML tooling for operations (predictive alerting, AIOps platforms, etc.)
• Track record of using AI to improve operational efficiency or decision-making

Our Benefits

In addition, for salaried positions you would also be eligible for:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Flexible Spending/Health Savings Accounts
• Flexible PTO
• 401(k) + Company Match
• Life Insurance, Pet insurance, and more

Our Company

We have a relatively flat organizational structure here at OpenLoop. Everyone is encouraged to bring ideas to the table and make things happen. This fits in well with our core values of Autonomy, Competence and Belonging, as we want everyone to feel empowered and supported to do their best work.