Remote GCP Cloud Platform Architect & Automation Leader

Humana; Olympia (WA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunity

Job summary

Humana is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to lead the design, engineering, and evolution of enterprise cloud infrastructure with a focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role provides technical leadership for secure, scalable, and automated cloud solutions that enable application teams to build and operate modern cloud-native workloads.

You will collaborate across engineering, security, and SRE teams to develop architecture patterns, standards, and governance while driving IaC, CI/CD, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline.
• 8+ years of infrastructure, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or architecture experience.
• 3+ years designing and operating public cloud solutions.
• 2+ years working with Google Cloud Platform or similar public cloud platforms.
• Experience designing large-scale cloud architectures in regulated enterprise environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
• Experience with cloud platform engineering, automation, and self-service enablement concepts.
• Experience with Kubernetes platforms such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD and automation solutions.
• Experience implementing cloud security and governance controls.
• Strong understanding of networking, identity, observability, and cloud operations.
• Proven ability to influence technical decisions across teams and organizations.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, engineering, and evolution of enterprise cloud infrastructure with a focus on GCP.
• Provide technical leadership for secure, scalable, automated cloud solutions.
• Collaborate across engineering, security, infrastructure, and application teams to deliver cloud platform capabilities.
• Develop architecture patterns, standards, and governance; drive platform consistency.
• Promote IaC, CI/CD, and platform automation practices.
• Influence architecture decisions across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Ensure cloud solutions are secure, cost-effective, and operable.

Skills

Cloud architecture

GCP

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD automation

Kubernetes

Security and governance

Stakeholder management

Technical leadership

Observability

Automation tooling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline

Tools

Terraform

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Cloud Run

GitOps

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Humana is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to lead the design, engineering, and evolution of enterprise cloud infrastructure with a focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role provides technical leadership for secure, scalable, and automated cloud solutions that enable application teams to build and operate modern cloud-native workloads.

You will collaborate across engineering, security, and SRE teams to develop architecture patterns, standards, and governance while driving IaC, CI/CD, and