Associate Director, DevOps Platforms

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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.

Use your skills to make an impact
 

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 DORA metrics, and understand how improving them can help an organization achieve successful DevOps outcomes
• You have a working knowledge of progressive deployment automation strategies like feature flags, canary, and blue/green deployments
• You understand how AI is changing the playing field for software engineering roles + processes and have a passion for integrating new capabilities into developer workflows
• You have experience integrating automated test tools, frameworks, and practices into a development team workflow

 

Work Location

• Home base is Louisville, KY
• Remote & Flexible Work Arrangements Available

 

Reporting Information

• You'll report to the Director of Enterprise DevOps and Enterprise Engineering Enablement.
• You'll be part of Enterprise Engineering Services organization, the L3 Engineering organization within Technology Strategy.

 

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.

Come ready with your best memes and your favorite Chuck Norris jokes. We work hard but also have a lot of fun as a team.

Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay 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.

 

$142,300 - $195,700 per year

 

This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

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-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

Application Deadline: 05-29-2025
About us
 Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is committed to putting health first – for our teammates, our customers and our company. Through our Humana insurance services and 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, Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.

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