The Associate Director, Edge Security & Traffic Management is responsible for leading the design, build, and operation of enterprise traffic management platforms that enable secure connectivity, high availability, and modern application delivery across corporate and subsidiary environments.
This role oversees External Global Traffic Management (Akamai), Internal GTM (Citrix NetScaler and F5), and Local Traffic Management solutions across on-premises and cloud platforms (Azure Application Gateway, GCP ILB/ELB), as well as Edge Security tooling including Akamai AAP and F5 Shape Botnet protection.
The Associate Director provides both strategic and operational leadership to ensure these platforms operate reliably at scale while advancing modernization, standardization, and the maturity of a hybrid Agile delivery model. This role is accountable for delivering consistent solution designs, improving user experience, and curating supported enterprise architectural patterns to reduce operational friction and team churn.
The Associate Director, Edge Security & Traffic Management leads a multi-disciplinary engineering and operations organization responsible for enterprise-scale traffic management capabilities. These platforms form the backbone of multi-region application connectivity and operate alongside web application firewall (WAF), bot protection, and network security controls to ensure secure access, application hardening, and availability across internal systems, cloud environments, and external internet-facing resources.
This role is responsible for driving consistent execution, improving platform resilience, and advancing modernization initiatives across traffic management and edge security tools.
The Associate Director oversees a skilled team with a focus on enterprise-class maturity, including clear separation of engineering and operations responsibilities to optimize delivery cycles. This includes enhancing an established SAFe Agile model to ensure sustained delivery while mitigating burnout. The role also curates a standardized set of approved templates and patterns for traffic management, ensuring a secure-by-design, scalable, and repeatable solutioning approach.
Key Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.
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.$156,600 - $215,400 per yearThis job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.
of Benefits
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our 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.Application Deadline: 05-19-2026
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