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At Humana, we are on a mission to provide an exceptional engineering experience for our community of 5K+ developers. We believe that happy and productive developers create essential features that enhance our members' well-being and overall experience with our products. As the Associate Director of DevOps Platforms in the Enterprise Engineering Enablement organization, you will play a crucial role in enabling Humana software engineers to deliver for our customers.

The ideal candidate for this role will need to have a unique mix of leadership experience, proficiency with DevOps practices, experience with platform engineering, understanding of software delivery, strong public speaking skills, and be exceptional at leading people through change. You will need to be systems thinker as you will have a key leadership role in maturing Humana's value stream delivery platform. You will need to have a delivery oriented mindset as you lead a team of skilled engineers to build a cohesive delivery experience across all tech stacks at Humana. Finally, in this role you will need to be skilled at working across organizational boundaries to be the connective tissue of the engineer experience by collaborating with your peers in DevSecOps, Quality, and Infrastructure Automation organizations.

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Required Qualifications

• You have a Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• You have 6 or more years of technical and 4+ years of people leadership experience.
• You are a caring and compassionate leader focused on enabling team members to grow and achieve their best effort in their role on the team.
• You used to be a software or DevOps engineer but decided to put down your IDE and become an engineering leader instead (double bonus points if you're still able to sling a little code from time to time).
• You enable a culture of collaboration, empowerment, and team cohesiveness where team members are excited about their work and understand the value that they are bringing to the enterprise.
• You are able to give meaningful and direct feedback in order to promote team member growth and maturity.
• You value work/life balance and enable a positive team culture that people want to be a part of.
• You are detail oriented and have the ability to set and deliver on outcome-oriented goals with your team.
• You understand the interaction between Agile and DevOps practices and how maturity in both of these areas will ultimately lead to better outcomes for software delivery teams.
• You have experience with enterprise-grade engineer platforms similar to Azure DevOps Services, GitHub, SonarQube, Artifactory, TFE or their industry standard equivalents.
• You have experience with cloud technologies, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and emerging DevOps trends like 'GitOps' combined with 'pull' based deployment technologies like Argo and Terraform Enterprise (TFE).
• You have the ability to work in "the gray" space, making consistent progress towards an outcome that will grow more into focus over time.
• You care about feedback loops and are able to receive feedback well, leveraging all kinds of feedback (even negative feedback) to improve processes as well as outcomes.
• You have demonstrated experience leading a team to the deliver software to production by leveraging DevOps practices.
• You are process oriented and have experience putting in place operational team processes to service the needs of a large internal customer base.
• You have experience with organizational change management initiatives and are able to engage in authentic conversations with people to lead them towards a successful change outcome.
• You are a strong communicator, a connector, and enjoy a highly agile work environment.
• You would enjoy collaborating with your peers and leaders from across the enterprise in order to establish a strong partnership between DevOps
• You enjoy creating presentations and communicating progress to senior leaders

 

Preferred Qualifications

• You hold a Master's or Doctorate's degree
• You are familiar with the