Associate Director, DevOps Engineering
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The Associate Director of DevOps Engineering is an exciting opportunity to shape Humana’s DevOps future. In this strategic and technical leadership role, you will guide transformative DevOps initiatives, leading a dynamic team of engineers dedicated to innovation and excellence. By driving standardization and forging strong partnerships with software delivery teams, you will boost the speed, security, and reliability of our software pipeline. This hands-on leader will oversee CI/CD processes, inspire cross-team collaboration, and cultivate a culture of continuous improvement—empowering both engineering and operations teams to deliver outstanding results.The Associate Director of DevOps will lead a team of DevOps engineers to advance Humana’s DevOps platform, enhance security, and accelerate delivery timelines. This role focuses on developing engineering expertise in cloud and automation technologies, promoting productivity and improving the developer experience. The leader will drive the DevOps strategy, implement automation across the development lifecycle, and foster collaboration between software development and operations teams to enable secure, efficient software delivery.
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Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in science, engineering, or an equivalent technical field
- 8-10+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering with 3+ years leadership experience.
- 3+ years' experience leading engineers implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI to automate application deployment
- 2+ years' experience managing all non-engineering functions like recruiting, financial budgets, career development, and more for a large growing engineering team
- Extensive people leader skills with dedication to grow talent and skills across the organization.
- Prior experience fostering a culture of collaboration between development and operations teams to promote transparency, shared responsibility, and streamlined processes, resulting in faster change lead times
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree or equivalent experience
- Expertise with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Extensive experience with CI/CD tools, containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and pipeline-as-code
- Experience with monitoring and logging solutions like Dynatrace, Prometheus, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), or Splunk for proactive issue detection and troubleshooting.
- Must be passionate about contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving consumer experiences
Additional Information
To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees' ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria:
At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested.
Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership.
Employees who live and work from Home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota will be provided a bi-weekly payment for their internet expense.
Humana will provide Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job.
Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40Pay Range
The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.
Description of Benefits
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-Apply for this role
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