Associate Director, DevOps Engineering

Humana • Washington, DC

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Associate Director of DevOps Engineering is an exciting opportunity to shape Humana’s DevOps future. In this strategic and technical leadership role, you will guide transformative DevOps initiatives, leading a dynamic team of engineers dedicated to innovation and excellence. By driving standardization and forging strong partnerships with software delivery teams, you will boost the speed, security, and reliability of our software pipeline. This hands-on leader will oversee CI/CD processes, inspire cross-team collaboration, and cultivate a culture of continuous improvement—empowering both engineering and operations teams to deliver outstanding results. The Associate Director of DevOps will lead a team of DevOps engineers to advance Humana’s DevOps platform, enhance security, and accelerate delivery timelines. This role focuses on developing engineering expertise in cloud and automation technologies, promoting productivity and improving the developer experience. The leader will drive the DevOps strategy, implement automation across the development lifecycle, and foster collaboration between software development and operations teams to enable secure, efficient software delivery. Use your skills to make an impact

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in science, engineering, or an equivalent technical field
• 8-10+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering with 3+ years leadership experience.
• 3+ years' experience leading engineers implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI to automate application deployment
• 2+ years' experience managing all non-engineering functions like recruiting, financial budgets, career development, and more for a large growing engineering team
• Extensive people leader skills with dedication to grow talent and skills across the organization.
• Prior experience fostering a culture of collaboration between development and operations teams to promote transparency, shared responsibility, and streamlined processes, resulting in faster change lead times

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree or equivalent experience
• Expertise with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Extensive experience with CI/CD tools, containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and pipeline-as-code
• Experience with monitoring and logging solutions like Dynatrace, Prometheus, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), or Splunk for proactive issue detection and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of DevOps engineers to advance Humana’s DevOps platform
• Enhance security
• Accelerate delivery timelines
• Develop engineering expertise in cloud and automation technologies
• Promote productivity
• Improve the developer experience
• Drive the DevOps strategy
• Implement automation across the development lifecycle
• Foster collaboration between software development and operations teams to enable secure, efficient software delivery

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director