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Remote site reliability engineering manager jobs are open across the U.S. in cloud infrastructure, SaaS, fintech, and cybersecurity, at remote-first companies and distributed engineering teams that depend on always-on systems. Employers hiring remotely right now include Lambda, Barracuda Networks, and M&T Bank. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
As a DevOps Engineer at Optum, you will join an engineering team modernizing healthcare platforms through Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and next-generation AIOps. In this role, you will be at the core of a major agentic AI initiative, designing, developing, and deploying autonomous AI agents that automate incident triage, root-cause remediation, build analysis, and self-healing infrastructure. Working with cutting-edge agentic workflows and reliable human-in-the-loop governance controls, you will drive operational resilience and platform velocity to advance Optum's mission of improving health outcomes globally.
You'll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines hosted primarily on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Architect, implement, and deploy agentic AI workflows and intelligent agents to automate operational incident triage, root-cause remediation, CI/CD build failure analysis, and system self-healing
- Engineer and maintain robust human-in-the-loop controls, approval gates, and safety guardrails to ensure agent-driven remediation acts safely and adheres to responsible AI practices
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and manage containerized workloads running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
- Establish comprehensive observability, telemetry, and logging frameworks across GCP services to feed real-time operational signals and system context into agentic AIOps tools
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:
- 3+ years of professional DevOps, SRE, or cloud engineering experience, with hands-on expertise building and operating workloads in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- 2+ years of experience with container orchestration (using Google Cloud Run or Docker)
- 2+ years of experience writing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) utilizing Terraform
- 2+ years of scripting and software development experience in Python for infrastructure automation and service integrations
- 1+ years of experience in leading high-severity incident resolution, root cause analysis (RCA), and implementing preventative engineering solutions following major outages
- 6+ months of experience designing, building, or deploying intelligent automation, AIOps solutions, or autonomous agents for operational triage, or build automation
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
- Experience with agentic frameworks and LLM orchestration tools (e.g., Google ADK, Vertex AI Agent Builder, LangGraph, AutoGen, or CrewAI)
- Experience integrating AIOps tooling with enterprise incident management platforms (e.g., PagerDuty, ServiceNow, or Jira)
- Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer or Professional Cloud Architect certification
- All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $72,800 to $130,000 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location, and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups, and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.
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Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
As a DevOps Engineer at Optum, you will join an engineering team modernizing healthcare platforms through Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and next-generation AIOps. In this role, you will be at the core of a major agentic AI initiative, designing, developing, and deploying autonomous AI agents that automate incident triage, root-cause remediation, build analysis, and self-healing infrastructure. Working with cutting-edge agentic workflows and reliable human-in-the-loop governance controls, you will drive operational resilience and platform velocity to advance Optum's mission of improving health outcomes globally.
You'll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines hosted primarily on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Architect, implement, and deploy agentic AI workflows and intelligent agents to automate operational incident triage, root-cause remediation, CI/CD build failure analysis, and system self-healing
- Engineer and maintain robust human-in-the-loop controls, approval gates, and safety guardrails to ensure agent-driven remediation acts safely and adheres to responsible AI practices
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and manage containerized workloads running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
- Establish comprehensive observability, telemetry, and logging frameworks across GCP services to feed real-time operational signals and system context into agentic AIOps tools
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:
- 3+ years of professional DevOps, SRE, or cloud engineering experience, with hands-on expertise building and operating workloads in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- 2+ years of experience with container orchestration (using Google Cloud Run or Docker)
- 2+ years of experience writing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) utilizing Terraform
- 2+ years of scripting and software development experience in Python for infrastructure automation and service integrations
- 1+ years of experience in leading high-severity incident resolution, root cause analysis (RCA), and implementing preventative engineering solutions following major outages
- 6+ months of experience designing, building, or deploying intelligent automation, AIOps solutions, or autonomous agents for operational triage, or build automation
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
- Experience with agentic frameworks and LLM orchestration tools (e.g., Google ADK, Vertex AI Agent Builder, LangGraph, AutoGen, or CrewAI)
- Experience integrating AIOps tooling with enterprise incident management platforms (e.g., PagerDuty, ServiceNow, or Jira)
- Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer or Professional Cloud Architect certification
- All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $72,800 to $130,000 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location, and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups, and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.
#RPO, #GREEN
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Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Electronics & Hardware
- Manufacturing
- Medical Devices
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote site reliability engineering manager jobs.
- Five or more years of software engineering or infrastructure experience with two or more in management
- Proficiency with Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience defining and operating service level objectives and service level agreements
- Strong background in observability tooling including distributed tracing, logging, and alerting systems
- Demonstrated ability to lead incident response programs and conduct blameless postmortems
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Remote Site Reliability Engineering Manager Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote site reliability engineering manager openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your stack and apply directly without sifting through location-filtered results.
Show async incident response in your portfolio
Remote employers want proof you can coordinate outages without a war room. Publish a postmortem or incident retrospective that shows how you led a distributed team through detection, mitigation, and resolution using Slack, PagerDuty, or a comparable async workflow.
Demonstrate remote leadership through written artifacts
Remote site reliability engineering manager interviews often include a writing screen. Prepare a sample runbook, an SLO definition document, or a blameless postmortem template that shows you can lead engineering culture through documentation rather than presence.
Target companies with distributed on-call rotations
Remote site reliability engineering manager roles are more stable at companies already running follow-the-sun on-call coverage. Research whether the team has engineers across multiple time zones before applying. This signals the organization knows how to support remote SRE leadership.
Remote Site Reliability Engineering Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote site reliability engineering manager job?
Remote site reliability engineering manager roles go to candidates who can demonstrate leadership and execution without in-person oversight. Remote employers screen for strong async communication, comfort with incident management across time zones, and experience running on-call rotations on distributed teams. Proficiency with Kubernetes, Terraform, and observability platforms like Datadog or Grafana signals readiness. A history of shipping reliability improvements and writing clear postmortems gives you a concrete edge.
Which companies hire remote site reliability engineering managers?
Companies hiring remote site reliability engineering managers right now include Lambda, Barracuda Networks, and M&T Bank, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote-first SaaS companies, cloud-native fintech firms, and distributed infrastructure teams are the most consistent hirers of this role.
Can you get a remote site reliability engineering manager job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry into this role is harder because employers expect you to manage incidents and lead engineers independently from day one. Remote-first startups and scaleups are more open to early-career managers than large enterprises. You can strengthen your candidacy by showing open-source contributions, incident response work, documented reliability wins from an individual contributor role, and async collaboration skills demonstrated through public writing or tooling.
Do you need a degree for remote site reliability engineering manager jobs?
Not always. Remote employers in this field weigh demonstrated engineering depth and leadership outcomes over formal credentials. What matters most is a verifiable history of improving system reliability, managing SLOs, leading on-call teams, and communicating technical risk clearly to stakeholders. Certifications in cloud platforms like AWS or Google Cloud can substitute for degree credentials when backed by real production experience.
Which industries hire the most remote site reliability engineering managers?
Remote site reliability engineering manager roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Electronics & Hardware, and Manufacturing, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors rely on distributed engineering teams that require consistent uptime and scalable infrastructure, making remote site reliability engineering managers essential to their operations.
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