Director of Data Center Networking & Automation

Humana Inc; Frankfort (KY); Remote; USD 142,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana Inc. is seeking a technically driven Associate Director, Network Engineering to lead Data Center and Deployment Engineering.

You will shape the strategy, set standards, and drive automation across enterprise infrastructure while guiding large, cross-functional teams in a remote work setting. You will oversee design-to-deployment programs, focus on scalable architectures, IaC, and observability, and collaborate with security and cloud teams to deliver resilient, AI-ready networking

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data center networking.
• 5+ years of people leadership.
• Experience leading engineering and deployment teams.
• Proven ability to scale, automate, and modernize data center networks using VXLAN/EVPN and spine-leaf topologies.

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 and Arista technologies.
• Enable AI-ready networking platforms supporting NVIDIA GPU and high-performance computing environments.
• Establish 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 Network Engineering

Leadership & People Management

Enterprise networking (Arista, Cisco)

IaC & Automation (Terraform, Ansible,

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Git

Azure DevOps

NDFC / Nexus/ CloudVision

Job description

Humana Inc. is seeking a technically driven Associate Director, Network Engineering to lead Data Center and Deployment Engineering.

You will shape the strategy, set standards, and drive automation across enterprise infrastructure while guiding large, cross-functional teams in a remote work setting. You will oversee design-to-deployment programs, focus on scalable architectures, IaC, and observability, and collaborate with security and cloud teams to deliver resilient, AI-ready networking