[Hiring] Director of IT Operations @OpenLoop Health

Role Description

IT Operations & Infrastructure

• Lead a team of 10+ global resources focused on help desk services, facility management, SOC policy enforcement, and asset management.
• Design and oversee infrastructure architecture for 99.5%+ uptime in a healthcare SaaS environment.
• Deliver a helpdesk service to maintain a 95% SLA within the response and resolution framework.
• Co-own incident management, escalation protocols, and post-incident review culture.
• Manage infrastructure spend and cloud resource optimization (AWS, GCP, or multi-cloud).
• Lead technical standardization across development, security, and product teams.

AI-Enhanced Operations

• Identify and implement AI/ML tools to improve operational efficiency (predictive alerting, anomaly detection, root-cause analysis).
• Experiment with AI-driven automation for routine operational tasks.
• Work with OpenLoop's AI Program to understand how AI can transform IT operations and share learnings.
• Build a culture of intelligent observability—moving from reactive to predictive operations.
• Evaluate emerging AI/ML tooling for infrastructure, monitoring, and incident response.

AI Program Operations Support

• Work alongside the VP of Enterprise Technology to operationalize the AI Program.
• Define operational requirements for AI model deployment, monitoring, and governance.
• Establish observability and alerting standards for AI systems at scale.
• Build operational runbooks and playbooks that enable safe, rapid experimentation.

Security & Compliance

• Partner with Security to ensure operational practices support SOC 2, HIPAA, and state healthcare compliance.
• Manage access control, secrets management, and least-privilege architectures.
• Own disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
• Lead quarterly compliance audits and remediation workflows.

Reliability & Performance

• Establish SLAs/SLOs for critical services and own performance against them.
• Build a culture of blameless postmortems and continuous improvement.
• Design monitoring, alerting, and observability infrastructure.
• Lead capacity planning and infrastructure roadmap.

Stakeholder Management

• Communicate infrastructure health, risks, and roadmap to leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Support product and engineering teams with infrastructure provisioning and troubleshooting.
• Manage relationships with vendors and cloud providers.
• Mentor and develop operational staff.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in IT operations, infrastructure engineering, or site reliability roles.
• 5+ years in a leadership role managing technical teams (5+ direct reports).
• Proven experience operating mission-critical SaaS or healthcare platforms.
• Deep expertise with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure-as-code.
• Strong understanding of HIPAA compliance, security baselines, and healthcare regulations.
• Experience designing systems for 99.5%+ uptime and handling production incidents.
• Track record of building strong operational cultures (automation-first, blameless postmortems, on-call excellence).
• Comfortable in ambiguity—ability to build processes from scratch in a fast-growing organization.

Requirements

• Experience building IT organizations in early-stage/hypergrowth companies.
• Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and modern DevOps stacks.
• Background in healthcare (EMR/EHR systems, telehealth platforms, etc.).
• Experience supporting machine learning or AI infrastructure at scale.
• Familiarity with database operations, replication, and backup/recovery strategies.
• Knowledge of healthcare data architecture and privacy requirements.
• Startup experience or consulting background.
• Experience evaluating or implementing AI/ML tooling for operations (predictive alerting, AIOps platforms, etc.).
• Track record of using AI to improve operational efficiency or decision-making.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision plans.
• Flexible Spending/Health Savings Accounts.
• Flexible PTO.
• 401(k) + Company Match.
• Life Insurance, Pet insurance, and more.

Company Description

We have a relatively flat organizational structure here at OpenLoop. Everyone is encouraged to bring ideas to the table and make things happen. This fits in well with our core values of Autonomy, Competence and Belonging, as we want everyone to feel empowered and supported to do their best work.