Lead Cloud Architect
Humana · Louisville, Kentucky, United States · remote
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We are seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Data Caching Platform Engineer with deep expertise in distributed caching technologies, automation, and software development. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure Managed Redis (AMR), Google Cloud Memorystore (Valkey/Redis), Terraform, and cloud-native platform engineering, along with experience supporting Redis Enterprise in on-premises environments.
This role is responsible for designing, developing, automating, deploying, and supporting enterprise-scale data-caching platforms across cloud and on-premises environments. The successful candidate will combine strong engineering skills with operational excellence to deliver secure, scalable, highly available, and resilient caching services that support critical business applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, engineer, automate, and support enterprise data-caching platforms, including Azure Managed Redis (AMR), Google Cloud Memorystore (Valkey/Redis), and Redis Enterprise across cloud and on-premises environments.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation solutions, and deployment frameworks using Terraform and modern scripting languages.
- Provide Level 3 engineering support for production platforms, including participation in a 24x7 on-call rotation, troubleshooting complex incidents, and leading root cause analysis efforts.
- Drive platform reliability, performance, scalability, security, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management activities.
- Partner with application, cloud, security, and operations teams to establish platform standards and deliver highly available, resilient solutions.
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Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or engineering and support of enterprise data-caching technologies.
- Hands-on experience engineering and supporting enterprise caching platforms, including Azure Managed Redis (AMR), Google Cloud Memorystore (Valkey/Redis), Redis Enterprise, or similar distributed caching technologies.
- Strong experience with Terraform, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, CI/CD pipelines, and Git-based development practices.
- Experience developing automation and operational tooling using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
- Experience providing Level 3 production support, participating in on-call rotations, and resolving complex distributed system issues.
- Strong Linux administration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning skills.
- Solid understanding of data caching, cloud networking, security, high availability, resiliency, and disaster recovery architectures.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on experience deploying, configuring, upgrading, and troubleshooting Azure Managed Redis (AMR), Google Cloud Memorystore (Valkey/Redis), or Redis Enterprise environments.
- Experience designing and operating multi-cloud solutions across Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Experience with Kubernetes, container platforms, and cloud-native technologies.
- Experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational automation solutions.
- Azure and/or Google Cloud certifications.
- Experience supporting mission-critical platforms with demanding availability, scalability, and performance requirements.
Work at Home Requirements: 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. In certain roles, the minimum recommended internet speed required by Humana may not be sufficient for business needs. Humana reserves the right to require associates to upgrade their internet service if necessary. Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.
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, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.
About us
About Humana: 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. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.
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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.