Associate Director, Edge Security & Traffic Management

Humana

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Remote, Kentucky · Remote, Ohio · Remote, Arizona · Remote, Minnesota · Remote, Michigan Posted 11 days ago $156,600$215,400 / year

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TL;DR

The Associate Director of Edge Security & Traffic Management leads the strategic and operational oversight of enterprise traffic management platforms, ensuring secure connectivity and high availability across on-premises and cloud environments. This role involves overseeing External Global Traffic Management (Akamai), Internal GTM (Citrix NetScaler and F5), and Local Traffic Management solutions while driving modernization initiatives to enhance platform resilience and user experience. Key responsibilities include leading engineering and operations teams, developing consistent policies, and managing budgets for secure edge platforms. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in load balancing, infrastructure security, and a strong background in operating enterprise traffic management systems like F5 BIG-IP and Citrix NetScaler. They should also possess expertise in network traffic flows, application delivery patterns, and compliance requirements within highly regulated industries such as healthcare or finance.

Skills

Akamai Citrix NetScaler F5 Azure Application Gateway GCP ILB/ELB WAF DDoS Bot mitigation SAFe Agile F5 BIG-IP CI/CD Terraform AWS Kubernetes Python PostgreSQL

What you'll do

  • Lead the design and operation of enterprise traffic management platforms for secure connectivity.
  • Oversee strategic and operational aspects of external and internal global traffic management solutions.
  • Ensure high availability, performance, and resiliency of services across on-premises and cloud environments.
  • Drive modernization initiatives including standardization and optimization of traffic management tools.
  • Establish consistent policies and architectural patterns to reduce operational friction and team churn.
  • Manage budgets and resource allocation for engineering and operations teams.
  • Develop and mentor senior technical leaders to build high-performing engineering teams.

What we're looking for

  • At least 6 years of experience in load balancing, infrastructure security, or related technical domains.
  • Proven leadership and management experience with technical teams for at least 2 years.
  • Hands-on experience operating and scaling enterprise traffic management platforms.
  • Strong understanding of load balancing principles, architectures, and design patterns.
  • Experience leading the development of engineers and operations staff into defined roles.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate in highly regulated environments and support audit requirements.
  • Expertise with F5 BIG-IP and Citrix NetScaler platforms.

Market check

Salary context

This $156,600–$215,400 range sits above 66% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$128,000$220,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$145,750$204,450

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 239 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Humana

Humana Inc. is a leading American for-profit health insurance company based in Louisville, Kentucky, specializing in Medicare Advantage plans.

Humana currently has 11 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $170,800–$234,800 across 11 roles with salary data.

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