Key skills
PythonJavaGo.NETAINode.jsgRPCAWSAzureGCPTerraformGitHub ActionsAnsibleAzure DevOpsGrafanaSplunkDynatraceGitHubAgileCI/CDLeadershipMentoring
About this role
Humana is committed to putting health first and is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for their Enterprise Observability Engineering team. This role involves driving the design and implementation of observability and logging platforms, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across various teams to enhance system reliability and performance.
Responsibilities:
- Architect and optimize observability environments through software engineering best practices
- Build automation scripts and tools to streamline observability instrumentation and deployment
- Integrate observability into CI/CD pipelines using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and configuration management tools
- Conduct observability code reviews and implement automated validation checks
- Build AI-native tools for autonomous issue detection and resolution
- Lead the design of distributed systems focused on reliability, scalability, and performance
- Manage data routing, transformation, and endpoint monitoring integrations
- Mentor junior engineers and foster a culture of continuous improvement
- Collaborate across teams to align observability strategies with business goals
- Communicate technical insights and recommendations to leadership
Requirements:
- Associate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 7+ years in software/infrastructure engineering with observability/logging focus
- Strong foundation in operating systems, networking, algorithms, and distributed systems
- Expertise in: Programming (eg. Python, .Net, Java, Go, Node.js)
- System architecture and AI Ops
- CI/CD (eg. GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
- Infrastructure as Code (eg. Terraform, Ansible)
- Cloud-native development (eg. Azure, AWS, GCP)
- API design (eg. REST, gRPC)
- Proven leadership and mentoring experience
- Agile delivery experience and strategic thinking around observability maturity
- 5+ years with a technical bachelor's degree
- Open telemetry
- Experience with Splunk Enterprise & ES (SPL, dashboards, correlation searches, data models)
- Scaled and complex Data onboarding (HEC, UF, TA development)
- Integration with SNOW, SOAR, ITSM/SecOps tools
- Experience with Dynatrace, Cribl, Grafana
- Monitoring and alerting strategy design
- Budget management and cost optimization
- Automation and continuous delivery practices
- Leading cross-functional programs across technologies
- Certified Splunk Admin and Advanced Power User