Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer

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The Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer partners with application development teams to design, onboard, build, modernize, deploy, and support cloud-native solutions on Humana ’s Cloud 3.0 Azure platform. This role is focused on application engineering, development enablement, CI/CD, design pattern adoption, security alignment, and release readiness rather than core infrastructure operations.
The position helps business units and product teams adopt approved Cloud 3.0 design patterns, align to enterprise architecture and security requirements, and implement scalable application solutions using approved technology stacks. The engineer works closely with software engineers, solution architects, security, platform teams, and delivery stakeholders to ensure applications are built and released according to Humana standards for onboarding, development, deployment, resiliency, and troubleshooting. Key Role Duties
Application and Solution Engineering
- 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.

Cloud Onboarding Support for Development Teams
- Guide teams through Cloud 3.0 onboarding prerequisites, including:

- 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

Development Lifecycle Enablement

- 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.

Release, Quality, and Compliance Readiness
- 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.

Troubleshooting and Engineering Support
- 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.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Work closely with:
- Software engineering teams

- Enterprise architecture

- Security and compliance partners

- Cloud platform enablement teams

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