[Remote] Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Remote
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optum is a global leader in health care innovation, focused on developing solutions that enhance health systems and improve lives. They are seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to establish and scale reliability practices across large-scale cloud platforms, emphasizing automation and AI-enabled operations.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive SRE standards across teams
- Lead implementation of:
- + SLOs, SLIs, error budgets
- + Observability (metrics, logs, tracing)
- + Resiliency patterns (failover, self-healing)
- Improve reliability through automation and proactive risk mitigation
- Drive reliability practices in Azure environments
- Apply AIOps (anomaly detection, intelligent alerting, automation)
- Influence engineering teams without direct authority
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, or Cloud Engineering
- Experience influencing multiple teams or platforms without direct ownership
- Demonstrated experience improving reliability through automation, tooling, or AI-enabled approaches
- Proven hands-on expertise in: Reliability engineering (SLOs, SLIs, incident management, observability)
- Distributed systems in cloud environments (Azure preferred)
- Solid understanding of system design, performance, scalability, and failure modes
- Experience implementing AI/ML or AIOps solutions in production environments (e.g., anomaly detection, alert optimization, automation)
- Experience standardizing observability frameworks (e.g., OpenTelemetry or similar)
- Experience working in complex enterprise or regulated environments
- Background supporting large-scale, mission-critical systems
- Proven ability to influence senior technical stakeholders
- Location: MN
- All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
Benefits
- A comprehensive benefits package
- Incentive and recognition programs
- Equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)
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