Senior Cloud Architect - Kubernetes

Humana Inc; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 129,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

Humana Inc. seeks a Senior Cloud Architect – Kubernetes to lead enterprise Kubernetes platforms on AKS and GKE, driving scalable, secure, and observable cloud solutions. This role partners with security, infra, and app teams to elevate platform capabilities and governance.

The ideal candidate brings 5+ years of hands-on Kubernetes in enterprise clouds, strong PKI, governance controls, and a track record of mentoring engineering teams. Excellent communication and collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering or related field.
• 8+ years in cloud infrastructure or platform engineering.
• 5+ years designing deploying Kubernetes-based platforms in enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and govern Kubernetes platforms across AKS and GKE.
• Lead lifecycle management of platform services including upgrades and retirement strategies.
• Develop features to improve scalability, reliability, and developer experience.

Skills

AKS

GKE

Terraform

IaC

GitHub

Observability

Cloud architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering or related field

Tools

Argo CD

Flux

Istio

OPA

Job description

Humana is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect – Kubernetes to support and evolve AKS and GKE runtime environments within Humana’s Cloud Platform. This role is responsible for architecting, improving, and governing enterprise Kubernetes platforms to deliver scalable, secure, cost-effective, and highly observable cloud solutions. The ideal candidate will bring strong technical expertise in Kubernetes and cloud-native architecture, along with excellent communication and collaboration skills. ## **Key Responsibilities** * Architect, design, support, and enhance Kubernetes platforms across Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Google Kubernetes Engine (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# **Use your skills to make an impact** ## **Required 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. ## **Preferred Qualifications*** Experience with Azure and Google platforms, and AKS and GKE runtime environments.* Expertise with GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux.* Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio.* Experience with container security platforms and Kubernetes security best practices.* Knowledge of policy-as-code technologies such as Open Policy Agent (OPA), Kyverno, or Gatekeeper.* Experience implementing cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices.* Familiarity with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins.* Experience with observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, or New Relic.* Cloud certifications such as: + Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) + Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) + Azure Solutions Architect Expert + Google Professional Cloud Architect + GCP Solutions Architect Professional**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.$129,300 - $177,800 per yearThis job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.