Associate Director, Edge Security & Traffic Management

Humana

Closes in 5 days Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$156,600–$215,400 / yr
Posted
5 days ago
Closes
Jul 3, 2026 (soon)

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How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $191k
This role $186k
$135k most similar roles pay here $236k

This role pays less than 52% of similar roles. Most pay $154,900–$226,312 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $186k versus about $191k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 16 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $142,300–$195,700 across 16 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Associate Director, Edge Security & Traffic Management

The Associate Director, Edge Security & Traffic Management leads the design and operation of enterprise traffic management platforms at scale, ensuring secure connectivity and high availability across on-premises and cloud environments. This role oversees External Global Traffic Management (Akamai), Internal GTM (Citrix NetScaler and F5), Local Traffic Management solutions, and Edge Security tooling like Akamai AAP and F5 Shape Botnet protection. The Associate Director provides strategic and operational leadership to a multi-disciplinary engineering and operations team, driving modernization initiatives, improving user experience, and curating supported enterprise architectural patterns. Key responsibilities include leading teams responsible for load balancing, traffic management, and edge integrations, owning the strategy and performance of Secure Edge platforms, and ensuring high availability and resiliency across environments. The role requires hands-on experience with F5 BIG-IP and Citrix NetScaler, a strong understanding of load balancing principles, and expertise in operating in highly regulated industries like healthcare or financial services.

What you'll do

  • Lead the design and operation of enterprise traffic management platforms ensuring secure connectivity.
  • Own strategy and performance for Secure Edge platforms to enable resilient, hardened connectivity.
  • Ensure high availability and resiliency of services governing enterprise traffic across environments.
  • Drive modernization initiatives including standardization and optimization of cloud-delivered global traffic services.
  • Establish consistent policies and architectural patterns across corporate and subsidiary environments.
  • Oversee operational metrics, service health monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement efforts.
  • Develop and mentor senior technical leaders to build high-performing engineering teams.

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years of experience in load balancing and infrastructure security.
  • 2+ years of leadership experience managing technical teams.
  • Hands-on experience operating and scaling enterprise traffic management platforms.
  • Experience with F5 BIG-IP and Citrix NetScaler platforms.
  • Strong understanding of load balancing principles, architectures, and design patterns.
  • Ability to align vendor strategy with enterprise standards and provide long-term direction.

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