Senior Cloud Architect - Kubernetes

Humana • Louisville, KY

1d • $129,300 - $177,800

About The Position

Humana is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to support and evolve AKS and GKE runtime environments within its Cloud Platform. The role is responsible for architecting, improving, and governing enterprise Kubernetes platforms to deliver scalable, secure, cost-effective, and highly observable cloud solutions. The architect provides technical leadership and guidance while collaborating with engineering, security, infrastructure, and application development teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent experience will be considered.
• 8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, systems engineering, or related technical disciplines.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and supporting Kubernetes-based platforms in enterprise cloud environments.
• Strong experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and/or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code methodologies.
• Experience using GitHub for source control, collaboration, CI/CD, and platform engineering workflows.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture, distributed systems, networking, security, governance, and reliability engineering principles.
• Experience implementing monitoring, observability, logging, and alerting solutions for cloud-native environments.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex production issues and drive root cause analysis.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence architectural decisions and lead cross-functional initiatives.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Azure and Google platforms, and AKS and GKE runtime environments.
• Expertise with GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
• Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio.
• Experience with container security platforms and Kubernetes security best practices.
• Knowledge of policy-as-code technologies such as Open Policy Agent (OPA), Kyverno, or Gatekeeper.
• Experience implementing cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices.
• Familiarity with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, or New Relic.
• Cloud certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect, or GCP Solutions Architect Professional.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, support, and enhance Kubernetes platforms across Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) environments.
• Lead the full lifecycle management of Kubernetes platform services, including planning, implementation, upgrades, enhancements, and retirement strategies.
• Develop and implement platform features that improve scalability, reliability, performance, and developer experience.
• Evaluate emerging cloud-native technologies, tools, and patterns to advance platform capabilities.
• Optimize Kubernetes resource utilization, workload scheduling, and cluster performance to improve efficiency and cost effectiveness.
• Drive operational excellence through automation, standardization, and continuous process improvement.
• Design and implement platform security controls, governance standards, policy enforcement, and architectural guardrails.
• Build and maintain observability solutions, dashboards, monitoring, logging, and alerting capabilities.
• Lead capacity planning, forecasting, incident prevention, and resiliency initiatives.
• Partner with engineering, security, infrastructure, and application development teams to deliver scalable platform solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, architectural guidance, and mentorship to engineering teams.
• Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitOps, and cloud-native best practices across the organization.
• Lead vulnerability remediation efforts and maintain Power BI dashboards to track image pull volumes and governance.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan.
• Paid time off, company holidays, and personal holidays.
• Paid parental and caregiver leave.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Life insurance.
• Bonus incentive plan based on company and/or individual performance.
• Other opportunities supporting whole-person well-being.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior