Senior Director, DevOps & SRE – HealthTech, Remote

UnitedHealth Group; Eden Prairie (MN); Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 273,000; Full time

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group seeks an exceptional Senior Director of DevOps and SRE to lead the DevOps/SRE horizontal across core platforms, driving reliability and FinOps. You will oversee 70-100+ engineers, manage outages, and shape multi-year strategy in a fast-paced health tech environment. Remote across the U.S.

with required in-office four days weekly for Minneapolis/DC-area hires. The role emphasizes AI integration, governance, and compliant operations, with a focus on scalable, secure, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive engineering leadership in DevOps/SRE/Infra Ops.
• 3+ years managing Directors/Managers and multi-functional teams.
• 3+ years owning 24x7 reliability, incident management, and DR for enterprise apps.
• 3+ years directing CI/CD, DevSecOps, cloud/hybrid infra (IaC, Kubernetes), automation.
• 2+ years managing budgets, vendor/offshore resources, or FinOps.

Responsibilities

• Lead an engineering org of 70-100+ across Directors, Managers, and AIOps pods to sustain 24x7 reliability.
• Prioritize requests to ensure high-impact, valid solutions over reactive work.
• Navigate outages, staffing changes, security demands with composure and agility.
• Define multi-year DevOps/SRE strategy, CI/CD standards, and observability roadmap.
• Integrate enterprise AI tools and align AI competencies in hiring.
• Drive FinOps, governance, and AIOps automation to reduce toil and costs.
• Oversee disaster recovery, incident management, and regulatory compliance (HIPAA, HiTech).
• Champion ethical AI with transparency, fairness, and accountability.
• Establish SLOs/SLIs and end-to-end observability balancing speed and stability.
• Foster high-performance, goal-oriented culture.

Skills

DevOps leadership

SRE leadership

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud infrastructure

FinOps cost optimization

AIOps

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

IaC

Job description

UnitedHealth Group seeks an exceptional Senior Director of DevOps and SRE to lead the DevOps/SRE horizontal across core platforms, driving reliability and FinOps. You will oversee 70-100+ engineers, manage outages, and shape multi-year strategy in a fast-paced health tech environment. Remote across the U.S.

with required in-office four days weekly for Minneapolis/DC-area hires. The role emphasizes AI integration, governance, and compliant operations, with a focus on scalable, secure, and