Lead, Infrastructure Capacity Management

Humana Inc; Louisville (KY); Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision benefits

401(k) retirement savings plan

Paid time off and holidays

Disability and life insurance

Job summary

Humana Inc. is seeking a Lead, Infrastructure Capacity Management in Louisville, KY, blending capacity modeling with proactive planning to optimize hardware, software, and network resources across cloud and on-prem environments.

The role collaborates with development, operations and engineering, leveraging AKS, OpenShift, and multi-cloud architectures to deliver scalable, cost-efficient solutions while guiding policy and investment decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Data Analytics, CS, IT, Engineering or related field.
• 8+ years in cloud and on-prem infrastructure.
• Expertise in cloud capacity planning and workload forecasting.
• 5+ years with AKS and containerized platforms.
• 5+ years designing scalable cloud and database architectures across Azure/AWS/GCP.
• Strong OpenShift and enterprise platform experience.
• Experience with cloud-native and enterprise DB platforms.
• Experience with capacity management and FinOps practices.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Conduct capacity workload modeling and performance optimization.
• Advise developers, admins, and architects on resource requirements.
• Develop and maintain capacity planning tools and scripts.
• Lead policy development for efficient capacity use.
• Partner with executives on strategic technology outcomes.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives across engineering and operations.

Skills

Cloud capacity planning

AKS / Kubernetes

OpenShift

Cloud architecture

FinOps / cost optimization

Stakeholder management

Performance engineering

Multi-cloud / hybrid-cloud

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related technical field

Advanced degree (preferred)

Tools

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

OpenShift

Nutanix

Azure SQL / PostgreSQL / MySQL

Databricks / Snowflake

Job description

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The Lead, Infrastructure Capacity Management conducts supply/demand, trend analyses and makes proactive capacity planning recommendations to mitigate risk and rationalize the optimal amount of hardware, software and network resources to meet business needs, service level requirements and IT infrastructure growth capacity. The Lead, Infrastructure Capacity Management works on problems of diverse scope and complexity ranging from moderate to substantial.

The Lead, Infrastructure Capacity Management ensures that capacity workload modeling and Performance Optimization and availability analysis is performed for a variety of platforms and environments. Serves as a subject matter expert to application development, systems administration and engineering and other technical and business staff in planning the resource requirements for systems under development. Develops, maintains, recommends, documents and supports tools and backend utilities to provide capacity planning management. Facilitates the development of policies to ensure that existing capacity is being used as efficiently as possible. Advises executives to develop functional strategies (often segment specific) on matters of significance. Exercises sound judgment and decision-making on complex issues and initiatives, working with minimal supervision. Analyzes multiple factors and business considerations to determine and implement effective solutions.

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Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Data Analytics , Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field
• 8+ years of experience in cloud, and On-prem databases, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• Expertise in cloud capacity planning, performance engineering, workload forecasting, and resource optimization.
• 5+ years of experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) , containerized platforms, Kubernetes administration, and cloud-native architectures.
• 5+ years of experience designing and implementing scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud and database architectures across Azure, AWS, and/or GCP.
• Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift, Nutanix, Open Suite , and enterprise platform technologies.
• Strong experience with cloud-native and enterprise database platforms, including Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Snowflake, Databricks, or similar technologies.
• Experience optimizing cloud infrastructure, databases, applications, and AI/ML workloads for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Experience with cloud monitoring, observability, capacity management, and financial management (FinOps) practices.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to partner across engineering, operations, architecture, and business teams.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and driving strategic technology outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience establishing enterprise standards and best practices for cloud architecture, database platforms, AI platforms, and performance optimization.
• Experience with multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud, and cloud modernization initiatives.
• Experience with Azure OpenAI, Databricks AI, Vertex AI, GPU-based workloads, or other enterprise AI/ML platforms.
• Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud automation technologies.
• Cloud certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Solutions Architect, or Google Professional Cloud Architect .

Additional Information

This is a hybrid role based in Louisville, KY . Candidates must reside within commuting distance of Louisville and be able to work onsite as required.

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.

$117,600 - $161,700 per year

This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

Description of Benefits

Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work.

• medical, dental and vision benefits
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave)
• short-term and long-term disability
• life insurance
• many other opportunities

About Us

About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer atHumana.comand atCenterWell.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.