Director of Cloud Platform Engineering

Humana Inc. is a leading U.S. healthcare company, and they are seeking a Director of Cloud Platform Engineering to lead the development of enterprise-grade cloud platforms. This role involves overseeing a large team, driving cloud strategy, and ensuring secure and compliant cloud solutions in support of critical healthcare services.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach, and develop a cloud platform engineering organization of ~60 engineers, architects and associate directors, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement
• Establish clear career paths, performance expectations, and succession plans for a large technical organization
• Build a product-minded engineering culture focused on customer value, reliability, and operational excellence
• Own the cloud platform roadmap and treat platform capabilities as internal products with defined outcomes, SLAs, and adoption metrics
• Drive platform standardization while enabling flexibility for diverse application and business needs
• Partner with enterprise architecture to align platform capabilities with long-term technology strategy
• Oversee design, delivery, and operation of large-scale cloud and Kubernetes-based platforms supporting mission-critical workloads
• Ensure platforms are highly available, fault tolerant, scalable, and cost-efficient
• Enable developer self-service through standardized tooling, templates, and automation
• Enforce infrastructure-as-code (IaC) as the standard for all platform development and operations
• Drive automation across provisioning, configuration, security controls, and lifecycle management
• Continuously reduce manual operations through CI/CD, GitOps, and policy-as-code practices
• Lead delivery of AI infrastructure platforms, including GPU-enabled compute
• Partner with data science and AI teams to ensure platforms support experimentation, training, and production-scale inference
• Ensure AI platforms meet enterprise standards for security, compliance, scalability, and cost management
• Ensure platform teams deliver using Agile and DevOps methodologies, emphasizing iterative delivery and fast feedback loops
• Establish strong observability, incident management, and reliability practices
• Define and track KPIs related to platform stability, delivery velocity, customer satisfaction, and cost optimization
• Partner closely with cybersecurity to design and operate secure cloud platforms aligned with healthcare regulatory requirements
• Embed security controls, identity, network segmentation, and compliance automation directly into platform services
• Ensure platforms meet internal and external audit requirements, including HIPAA and enterprise risk standards
• Lead vendor management for cloud service providers, platform tooling vendors, and strategic partners
• Manage platform budgets, forecasting, and cloud cost optimization efforts
• Negotiate contracts and influence vendor roadmaps to align with enterprise needs

Requirements:

• 10+ years of technology experience
• 5+ years leading large-scale cloud or platform engineering teams
• Demonstrated experience leading a remote workforce of engineers/architects across multiple teams and technical domains
• Deep experience with public cloud platforms and Kubernetes at enterprise scale
• Proven success delivering platforms using Agile methodologies and modern DevOps practices
• Strong hands-on understanding of Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, ARM, Bicep, CloudFormation)
• Experience delivering and operating AI infrastructure
• Strong background in security-focused cloud design and working in regulated environments
• Experience with vendor management, contract negotiation, and financial oversight
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Experience in healthcare, financial services, or other highly regulated industries
• Familiarity with SRE models, GitOps, and platform product management practices
• Experience influencing technology strategy at the enterprise or executive level