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REO Resiliency Engineering and Quality Leader (Hybrid)

Securian
parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, 401(k), retirement plan
United States, Minnesota, Saint Paul
Jan 07, 2026

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

Mission

"To lead the engineering discipline that ensures Securian's 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 GCP-ensuring 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 REO's 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 REO's 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 you're in a commutable distance (90 minutes), you'll 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:

$145,000.00 - $267,000.00

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 what's important to them. And Securian Financial rewards associates for their service by providing additional PTO the longer you stay at Securian.

  • Leave programs: Securian's 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. Securian's 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

For more information regarding Securian's benefits, please review our Benefits page.

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

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