Senior Cloud Data Caching Platform Engineer (Remote)

Humana; New York (NY); Remote; USD 142,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Data Caching Platform Engineer to design, automate, deploy, and support enterprise data‑caching platforms across cloud and on‑premises environments. You will contribute to creating reliable, scalable caching services for critical business applications and participate in on‑call support to ensure high availability.

The role emphasizes hands‑on work with Azure Managed Redis, Google Cloud Memorystore, Redis Enterprise, and IaC tooling such as Terraform,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or engineering and support of enterprise data‑caching technologies.
• Hands‑on experience engineering and supporting enterprise caching platforms, including Azure Managed Redis (AMR), Google Cloud Memorystore (Valkey/Redis), Redis Enterprise, or similar distributed caching technologies.
• Strong experience with Terraform, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, CI/CD pipelines, and Git‑based development practices.
• Experience developing automation and operational tooling using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
• Experience providing Level 3 production support, participating in on‑call rotations, and resolving complex distributed system issues.
• Strong Linux administration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning skills.
• Solid understanding of data caching, cloud networking, security, high availability, resiliency, and disaster recovery architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, automate, and support enterprise data‑caching platforms, including Azure Managed Redis (AMR), Google Cloud Memorystore (Valkey/Redis), and Redis Enterprise across cloud and on‑premises environments.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation solutions, and deployment frameworks using Terraform and modern scripting languages.
• Provide Level 3 engineering support for production platforms, including participation in a 24x7 on‑call rotation, troubleshooting complex incidents, and leading root cause analysis efforts.
• Drive platform reliability, performance, scalability, security, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management activities.
• Partner with application, cloud, security, and operations teams to establish platform standards and deliver highly available, resilient solutions.

Skills

Caching platforms

Terraform IaC

CI/CD pipelines

Scripting (Python)

Linux administration

On-call support

Cloud networking

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Redis Enterprise

Azure Managed Redis

Google Cloud Memorystore

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Humana is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Data Caching Platform Engineer to design, automate, deploy, and support enterprise data‑caching platforms across cloud and on‑premises environments. You will contribute to creating reliable, scalable caching services for critical business applications and participate in on‑call support to ensure high availability.

The role emphasizes hands‑on work with Azure Managed Redis, Google Cloud Memorystore, Redis Enterprise, and IaC tooling such as Terraform,