Kubernetes Platform Architect (AKS/GKE)

Humana Inc; United States; On-site; USD 129,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana Inc. is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect – Kubernetes to lead enterprise Kubernetes platforms across AKS and GKE, with emphasis on scalable, secure, and observable cloud solutions. You will guide architecture, governance, and automation efforts across multiple squads.

Ideal candidates bring 8+ years in cloud infra, strong AKS/GKE experience, IaC with Terraform, GitOps, and robust collaboration skills to drive cross-functional initiatives in a large organization.

Qualifications

• 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 utilizing 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.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, support, and enhance Kubernetes platforms across AKS and 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.
• Continuously evaluate emerging cloud-native technologies, tools, and patterns to advance platform capabilities.
• Optimize Kubernetes resource utilization, workload scheduling, and cluster performance to maximize efficiency and cost effectiveness.
• Drive operational excellence initiatives 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 to improve platform visibility and reliability.
• 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.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud architecture

Azure AKS

GKE

Terraform

GitHub

Observability

Cost optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Argo CD

Flux

Istio

OPA/Kyverno/Gatekeeper

Dynatrace/Prometheus

Job description

Humana Inc. is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect – Kubernetes to lead enterprise Kubernetes platforms across AKS and GKE, with emphasis on scalable, secure, and observable cloud solutions. You will guide architecture, governance, and automation efforts across multiple squads.

Ideal candidates bring 8+ years in cloud infra, strong AKS/GKE experience, IaC with Terraform, GitOps, and robust collaboration skills to drive cross-functional initiatives in a large organization.