Associate Director, Data Center Networking & Automation

Humana Inc; Pierre (SD); Remote; USD 142,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentive plan

Medical, dental and vision benefits

401(k) retirement savings plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Humana Inc. is seeking an Associate Director, Network Engineering to lead Data Center and Deployment Engineering teams, shaping infrastructure strategy and automation across the enterprise.

You will define standards, roadmaps, and technical direction while ensuring scalable, secure, and AI-ready data center networks. This leadership role emphasizes engineering execution and strategic initiatives over daily operations, with occasional travel to Humana offices.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of data center network engineering experience.
• 5+ years of people leadership experience.
• Experience leading engineering and deployment or implementation teams.
• Demonstrated success building, mentoring, and developing high-performing technical organizations.
• Extensive experience leading the design, deployment, and transformation of enterprise data center networks utilizing Arista EOS and Cisco Nexus platforms, VXLAN/EVPN architectures, spine-leaf networking, BGP routing, Data Center Interconnect (DCI), and Cisco-to-Arista migration programs.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience utilizing Terraform, Ansible, Python, Git, and similar automation frameworks.
• Experience building and managing Azure DevOps (ADO) deployment pipelines and continuous integration and continuous delivery practices.
• Experience with modern data center orchestration, automation, management, and observability platforms, including Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC), Arista CloudVision Portal or CloudVision as a Service (CVP/CVaaS), Cisco Nexus Dashboard, Aruba Orchestrator, Gigamon visibility platforms, Arista DANZ Monitoring Fabric (DMF), or similar enterprise-scale management and telemetry solutions.
• Experience leveraging orchestration and visibility platforms for fabric provisioning, network automation, telemetry, observability, configuration management, operational consistency, and deployment lifecycle management.
• Experience leading large-scale data center migration, integration, and transformation initiatives.
• Experience leading engineering teams through organizational transformation, technology modernization, merger and acquisition integration efforts, or large-scale infrastructure transitions.
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and organizational leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Data Center Network Engineers and Deployment Engineers.
• Establish technical roadmaps, engineering standards, deployment methodologies, and automation strategies.
• Build a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Own engineering execution for major infrastructure initiatives from design through deployment, production acceptance, and operational handoff.
• Lead engineering and deployment efforts for modern data center network architectures utilizing Cisco Nexus and Arista technologies.
• Enable AI-ready networking platforms supporting NVIDIA GPU and high-performance computing environments.
• Establish Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automated deployment practices as engineering standards using Azure DevOps, Terraform, Ansible, Python, Git, and related technologies.
• Lead large-scale infrastructure transformation initiatives, including data center migrations, consolidations, merger and acquisition integrations, and subsidiary onboarding activities.
• Drive adoption of orchestration, automation, observability, and telemetry platforms across the data center environment.
• Partner with Cloud Engineering, Security Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Operations, and Architecture teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and highly automated solutions.
• Provide technical oversight and strategic direction for deployment of network, security, visibility, and management platforms supporting enterprise infrastructure.
• Manage cross-functional programs involving engineering, deployment, operations, security, architecture, and business stakeholders to ensure successful execution of strategic initiatives.

Skills

Data center networking

Leadership

Azure DevOps

IaC (Terraform, Ansible)

Python scripting

Education

CCIE Data Center (certification)

PMP (project management)

Tools

Arista EOS

Cisco Nexus

NDFC / CloudVision

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Git

Job description

Humana Inc. is seeking an Associate Director, Network Engineering to lead Data Center and Deployment Engineering teams, shaping infrastructure strategy and automation across the enterprise.

You will define standards, roadmaps, and technical direction while ensuring scalable, secure, and AI-ready data center networks. This leadership role emphasizes engineering execution and strategic initiatives over daily operations, with occasional travel to Humana offices.