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About the Role

The Director of Cloud Platform Engineering is a senior technology leader responsible for building, operating, and evolving enterprise-grade cloud platforms that power critical healthcare services. This leader will drive the vision, strategy, and execution of cloud platform capabilities with a strong emphasis on product engineering, automation, and secure-by-design architectures. This role blends deep technical credibility with strong people leadership and enterprise-scale execution experience.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop a cloud platform engineering organization of ~60 engineers, architects and associate directors, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement
Establish clear career paths, performance expectations, and succession plans for a large technical organization
Build a product-minded engineering culture focused on customer value, reliability, and operational excellence
Own the cloud platform roadmap and treat platform capabilities as internal products with defined outcomes, SLAs, and adoption metrics
Drive platform standardization while enabling flexibility for diverse application and business needs
Partner with enterprise architecture to align platform capabilities with long-term technology strategy
Oversee design, delivery, and operation of large-scale cloud and Kubernetes-based platforms supporting mission-critical workloads
Ensure platforms are highly available, fault tolerant, scalable, and cost-efficient
Enable developer self-service through standardized tooling, templates, and automation
Enforce infrastructure-as-code (IaC) as the standard for all platform development and operations
Drive automation across provisioning, configuration, security controls, and lifecycle management
Continuously reduce manual operations through CI/CD, GitOps, and policy-as-code practices
Lead delivery of AI infrastructure platforms, including GPU-enabled compute
Partner with data science and AI teams to ensure platforms support experimentation, training, and production-scale inference
Ensure AI platforms meet enterprise standards for security, compliance, scalability, and cost management
Ensure platform teams deliver using Agile and DevOps methodologies, emphasizing iterative delivery and fast feedback loops
Establish strong observability, incident management, and reliability practices
Define and track KPIs related to platform stability, delivery velocity, customer satisfaction, and cost optimization
Partner closely with cybersecurity to design and operate secure cloud platforms aligned with healthcare regulatory requirements
Embed security controls, identity, network segmentation, and compliance automation directly into platform services
Ensure platforms meet internal and external audit requirements, including HIPAA and enterprise risk standards
Lead vendor management for cloud service providers, platform tooling vendors, and strategic partners
Manage platform budgets, forecasting, and cloud cost optimization efforts
Negotiate contracts and influence vendor roadmaps to align with enterprise needs

Requirements

10+ years of technology experience
5+ years leading large-scale cloud or platform engineering teams
Demonstrated experience leading a remote workforce of engineers/architects across multiple teams and technical domains
Strong hands-on understanding of Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, ARM, Bicep, CloudFormation)
Experience delivering and operating AI infrastructure
Strong background in security-focused cloud design and working in regulated environments
Experience with vendor management, contract negotiation, and financial oversight

Skills

Public cloud platforms
Kubernetes at enterprise scale
Agile methodologies
DevOps practices
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
AI infrastructure
Security-focused cloud design
Vendor management
Contract negotiation
Financial oversight
SRE models
GitOps
Platform product management

Location

Remote (near Louisville, KY; Tampa, FL; Dallas, TX; Boston, MA; New York City; Washington, D.C: Atlanta, GA, Nashville, TN, Chicago, IL or Charlotte, NC)

Work Type

Remote
Full-time

Experience Level

Senior
10+ years of technology experience
5+ years leading large-scale cloud or platform engineering teams

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Salary/Compensations

$189,400 - $260,500 per year

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision benefits
401(k) retirement savings plan
Time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave)
Short-term and long-term disability
Life insurance

About the Company

Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.

Equal Opportunity

It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status.
It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements.
This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.