Software Engineering Advisor-Hybrid (cigna)

Job Description

As a cloud engineer, the candidate will mainly focus on mastering existing patterns and helping application teams adopting these patterns during their journey to AWS.  You will work with a highly Agile team to develop, execute, validate and maintain AWS patterns. The candidate must be passionate about cloud and is always looking to further their personal knowledge and expertise. The candidate is comfortable executing against tasks that are occasionally ambiguous but works independently to seek out the needed information and is not the type to wait for others to tell them "what to do next", but who proactively looks to fill their work queue. The ideal team member will be creative, responsive, flexible, and willing to participate in an open collaborative peer environment. The candidate enjoys working in a team of high performers, who hold each other accountable to perform to their very best and does not shy away from opportunities to provide and take feedback with team members. The candidate works towards delivering a Minimal Viable Product with proper testing, avoids scope creep, and follows Software Engineering practices as defined by Evernorth Standards. The candidate is expected to actively participate in all ceremonies like Daily Stand-ups, Grooming, review user stories & Team retrospectives. A good fit will demonstrate following traits in abundance- 

• focuses on providing thought leadership across multiple disciplines; recognized internally as “the go-to person” for the most complex Cloud Engineering assignments. Implements organization's cloud strategy from a technical perspective, including design, planning, integration, maintenance and support of cloud architecture. Supports development and execution of cloud implementation strategy within organization's existing IT infrastructure. May work with stakeholders across organization to evaluate cloud systems and identify appropriate solutions.JOB IS FROM: italents.netVIEW

The Role:

As a cloud engineer you will;

• Design and hands-on development of robust solutions to hard problems considering scale, security, reliability, performance, operational excellence and cost.

• Supports other product delivery partners in the successful build, test, and release of solutions.

• Works with distributed requirements and technical stakeholders to complete shared design and development.

• Supports the full software lifecycle of design, development, testing, and support for technical delivery.

• Actively participate in agile ceremonies

• Work with the team to understand the business value and break down the feature as stories

• Reviews user story/requirements to identify ambiguities

• Communicate clearly, concisely, and effectively for your audience.

• Collaborate across teams and departments to help to create best practices

• Identify risks and help mitigateAbility to design with ambiguous requirements

• Guide and mentor team members on all aspects of software engineering

• Ability to drive innovation in the organization

• Ability to make presentations on software technologies, frameworks, and patterns to the organization

Skills & Preferred Qualifications

• in depth Terraform knowledge

• Docker, quay and kubernetes

• ArgoCD

• AWS Services: S3, Cloudfront, EKS, Aurora, postgres, MongoDB, AWS Networking

• Teach to fish not fish for the app teams, thus help enable Day 2 app management on AWS 

• Springboot is a plus

• Attention to details

• Quick Learner

• Excellent Communication

• Strong experience in developing and integrating RESTful web-services

• Experience with build and deployment tools, e.g., Git, Jenkins etc

• Automation driven Mindset to improve maintainability and testability

• Document design and solution to provide clarity.

• Cigna specific tooling like below is a plus - RAAS, CCOE P2P processes, CNP, Dev tooling expertise, Onboarding activities for teams like kick off and workshops, understanding of firewalls and ability to troubleshoot - familiarity with CCA/TSE/Firewalls, Familiar to Service Now

• Certification desired: AWS ceritified Associate architecture, Hashicorp certified terraform associate

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

About The Cigna Group

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we’re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing the online application process, please email: SeeYourself@cigna.com for support. Do not email SeeYourself@cigna.com for an update on your application or to provide your resume as you will not receive a response.

The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.