Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Humana is a U.S. healthcare company providing insurance and healthcare services. The Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer partners with application development teams to design, modernize, deploy, and support cloud-native solutions on Humana’s Cloud 3.0 Azure platform. The role enables application onboarding, CI/CD, security and architecture alignment, release readiness, and troubleshooting across enterprise cloud environments.
Responsibilities
- Partner with development teams to design and implement cloud-native application solutions on the Cloud 3.0 Azure platform
- Translate business and application requirements into scalable application designs using approved Cloud 3.0 design patterns
- Advise teams on application topology decisions such as shared vs. dedicated deployment models
- Support application modernization and acceleration efforts for services moving to Cloud 3.0
- Help development teams identify application dependencies, integration patterns, and deployment requirements
- Develop application codes using latest Humana approved technology stacks, including usage of approved Humana AI tools
- Application portfolio setup in ServiceNow
- Artifact definition in iServer/LeanIX
- Logical architecture and data flow documentation
- Accessibility needs identification (internal vs. external)
- Disaster recovery tier classification
- Database high availability / failover considerations
- Estimated deployment sizing, including AKS deployment considerations
- Assist teams in preparing onboarding deliverables such as:
- Resource build sheets
- Distribution lists and AD groups
- EA intake submissions
- EIP/PIRC readiness inputs
- ARB review support
- Enable and support development teams in setting up Argo onboarding for application components
- Validate that CI/CD tools and pipelines are ready to support build, test, deploy, and release processes
- Promote engineering best practices for:
- Automated testing
- Code quality
- Code coverage
- Release governance
- Deployment consistency
- Support teams in establishing reusable development patterns and standard delivery approaches
- Prepare teams for production release readiness, including GLAPI certification where required
- Ensure application teams align with approved security, architecture, and technology standards
- Review development and deployment approaches for conformance with enterprise requirements
- Identify risks, gaps, or non-standard implementation needs early and coordinate mitigation with relevant teams
- Provide technical guidance to development teams during onboarding, development, deployment, and post-deployment troubleshooting
- Help diagnose application deployment issues, platform integration issues, and release pipeline challenges
- Partner with platform and shared services teams when application issues require cross-team resolution
- Improve engineering support documentation and reusable guidance for common development issues
- Work closely with:
- Software engineering teams
- Enterprise architecture
- Security and compliance partners
- Cloud platform enablement teams
- DevOps / release engineering
- Product and delivery stakeholders
- Act as a technical advisor to ensure development teams effectively use approved cloud capabilities without deviating into unsupported patterns
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience
- 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, cloud platform operations, solution engineering, or infrastructure/application modernization
- 3+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and supporting solutions in Microsoft Azure
- Demonstrated experience with cloud-native architecture patterns, including scalable, resilient, and secure application design
- Experience deploying and supporting containerized workloads using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or similar Kubernetes platforms
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and release automation for cloud-hosted applications
- Experience with infrastructure as code, automation, and environment provisioning
- Working knowledge of cloud security, identity/access management, and enterprise governance controls
- Experience supporting application onboarding, deployment, troubleshooting, and operational readiness in an enterprise cloud environment
- Ability to interpret and apply architecture standards, approved technology patterns, and platform guardrails
- Experience with application dependencies such as networking, access controls, database connectivity, high availability, and disaster recovery considerations
- Strong troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and production support skills across cloud infrastructure and application layers
- Experience collaborating with architecture, security, platform engineering, and application teams to deliver compliant cloud solutions
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with ability to document logical architectures, data flows, and deployment requirements
- While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required
- Experience working within a large, regulated enterprise environment, preferably in healthcare or another highly governed industry
- Experience with Humana Cloud 3.0 onboarding standards, cloud design patterns, or enterprise cloud modernization practices
- Familiarity with enterprise intake, architecture review, and governance processes such as application portfolio setup, artifact registration, and design review
- Experience with Argo onboarding and GitOps-based deployment models
- Familiarity with code quality practices such as code coverage, quality gates, and release readiness standards
- Knowledge of database high availability, failover planning, and disaster recovery tiering in cloud environments
- Experience supporting both internal and external application accessibility requirements in Azure
- Cloud certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or DevOps Engineer Expert
- Experience with cloud cost optimization, resource sizing, and capacity planning
- Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership for cloud adoption and modernization initiatives
Benefits
- This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.
- 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
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