REO Resiliency Engineering and Quality Leader (Hybrid)

Saint Paul, MN - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 145000 - 267000

Posted on: 2 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

*At Securian Financial the internal position title is Infrastructure Dir.

Mission

To lead the engineering discipline that ensures Securians technology platforms and cloud services are built and operated with uncompromising resilience performance and quality. This role drives the design and automation of fault-tolerant high-availability architectures across AWS Azure and GCPensuring the enterprise meets resiliency scalability and efficiency expectations at every layer of technology.

Positioning

The Director of Resilience Engineering and Quality Leader is both a strategic peer and technical counterpart to the Infrastructure & Reliability Engineering Leader.

This role provides bench depth and succession coverage for REOs most technically complex domains while driving innovation in reliability resilience and performance practices.

Strategic influence: Shapes cloud reliability quality engineering and resilience strategy across REO and Architecture domains.
Operational authority: Leads Sr. Managers and Managers who own the execution of quality resilience and performance engineering capabilities.
Enterprise collaboration: Works hand-in-hand with Technology Solution Business Data and Enterprise Architects to embed reliability and resilience as core architecture principles.

Scope of Accountability

Resilience Engineering & Cloud Reliability

Architect and validate fault-tolerant regionally resilient architectures across AWS Azure and GCP.
Own resilience automation chaos testing and IaC-based recovery validation.
Lead cross-cloud reliability design reviews and failure-mode analyses for critical systems.

Quality Engineering & Continuous Testing

Define enterprise-wide quality engineering strategy integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
Drive automation-first testing (functional non-functional performance resilience).
Embed observability-driven quality validation and contract testing across services.

Performance Capacity & Efficiency Engineering

Oversee predictive capacity planning scaling automation and cost/efficiency optimization (FinOps/GreenOps).
Partner with Platform & Infrastructure teams to tune performance across application and platform layers.
Measure and report on performance SLIs/SLAs aligned to REOs Reliability Metrics framework.

Cross-Domain Architecture Collaboration

Partner with Enterprise Architects to codify resilience and reliability standards in technology blueprints.
Collaborate with Technology & Solution Architects to design service reliability into delivery architectures.
Engage Data Architects for data resilience replication and pipeline reliability.
Work with Business Architects to align technical reliability goals with critical business outcomes.

Leadership & Talent Development

Lead a team of Sr. Managers and Managers fostering a high-performance hands-on engineering culture.
Build and mentor top-tier technical talent in cloud reliability resilience and quality automation.
Partner with HR and REO Enablement to develop succession plans and technical competency frameworks.

Core Technical Competencies

AWS (primary) Multi-account design HA architecture region failover resilience automation Terraform/CDK/CloudFormation.
Azure & GCP (secondary) Compute networking and reliability constructs; hybrid cloud design and failover integration.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Deep proficiency in Terraform policy-as-code (OPA/Conftest) drift detection pipeline integration.
Reliability & Chaos Engineering AWS Fault Injection Simulator Gremlin steady-state hypothesis design.
Observability & Quality Automation OpenTelemetry Prometheus CloudWatch K6 Gatling; CI/CD quality gates and dashboards.
Performance Engineering Load stress and soak testing automation; performance profiling and SLO alignment.
Disaster Recovery Automation Cross-region orchestration IaC-driven DR runs replication validation.
FinOps/GreenOps Cloud cost and efficiency automation carbon-aware scaling policies.

Leadership Competencies

Strategic Technical Leadership: Operates at the intersection of deep engineering and executive strategy.
Multi-Domain Collaborator: Integrates reliability and resilience across architecture operations and business domains.
Talent Multiplier: Develops and empowers senior managers fostering engineering mastery and innovation.
Credible Technical Authority: Trusted peer to Infrastructure & Reliability Engineering; capable of leading architecture reviews and executive briefings.
Change Champion: Drives transformation of reliability practices across platforms pipelines and teams.

Qualifications & Experience

12 years in cloud engineering reliability or platform leadership roles.
5 years leading Sr. Managers/Managers in technical domains.
Proven expertise across AWS with working knowledge of Azure and GCP.
Experience with multi-cloud governance DR design IaC at scale and reliability automation.
Strong understanding of observability SRE principles and REO/ITIL-aligned reliability frameworks.
Certifications:
- Required: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
- Preferred: AWS DevOps Engineer Azure Solutions Architect Expert Google Professional Cloud Architect

Success Metrics

99.9% availability maintained for Tier-1 workloads.
100% coverage of DR automation for Tier-1 services.
25% annual increase in automated quality/test coverage.
15% annual improvement in resource efficiency and cost performance.
Documented resilience participation across all enterprise architecture blueprints.
Positive technical peer readiness and succession rating from Head of REO.

Summary Value Proposition

This Director role blends deep AWS reliability engineering expertise multi-cloud technical breadth and leadership scale.

It ensures REO maintains both technical depth and leadership redundancy and it strengthens the bridge between engineering execution and enterprise architecture alignment.

#LI-hybrid **This position will be in a hybrid working arrangement.**

Securian Financial believes in hybrid work as an integral part of our culture. Associates get the benefit of working both virtually and in our offices. If youre in a commutable distance (90 minutes) youll join us 3 days each week in our offices to collaborate and build relationships. Our policy allows flexibility for the reality of business and personal schedules.

The estimated base pay range for this job is:

$145000.00 - $267000.00

Pay may vary depending on job-related factors and individual experience skills knowledge etc. More information on base pay and incentive pay (if applicable) can be discussed with a member of the Securian Financial Talent Acquisition team.

Be you. With us. At Securian Financial we understand that attracting top talent means offering more than just a job it means providing a rewarding and fulfilling career. As a valued member of our high-performing team we want you to connect with your work your relationships and your community. Enjoy our comprehensive range of benefits designed to enhance your professional growth well-being and work-life balance including the advantages listed here:

Paid time off:

We want you to take time off for what matters most to you. Our PTO program provides flexibility for associates to take meaningful time away from work to relax recharge and spend time doing whats important to them. And Securian Financial rewards associates for their service by providing additional PTO the longer you stay at Securian.
Leave programs: Securians flexible leave programs allow time off from work for parental leave caregiver leave for family members bereavement and military leave.
Holidays: Securian provides nine company paid holidays.

Company-funded pension plan and a 401(k) retirement plan: Share in the success of our company. Securians 401(k) company contribution is tied to our performance up to 10 percent of eligible earnings with a target of 5 percent. The amount is based on company results compared to goals related to earnings sales and service.

Health insurance: From the first day of employment associates and their eligible family members including spouses domestic partners and children are eligible for medical dental and vision coverage.

Volunteer time: We know the importance of community. Through company-sponsored events volunteer paid time off a dollar-for-dollar matching gift program and more we encourage you to support organizations important to you.

Associate Resource Groups: Build connections be yourself and develop meaningful relationships at work through associate-led ARGs. Dedicated groups focus on a variety of interests and affinities including:

Mental Wellness and Disability
Pride at Securian Financial
Securian Young Professionals Network
Securian Multicultural Network
Securian Women and Allies Network
Servicemember Associate Resource Group

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This information is not intended to explain all the provisions of coverage available under these all cases the plan document dictates coverage and provisions.

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*At Securian Financial the internal position title is Infrastructure Dir.MissionTo lead the engineering discipline that ensures Securians technology platforms and cloud services are built and operated with uncompromising resilience performance and quality. This role drives the design and automation ...