Application Development Senior Advisor
The Application Development Senior Advisor role will report to the Justin Iriondo and will play a pivotal role within a high-performing team whose main objective is to enable the strategic and tactical development of the Integrated Pharmacy Medical and Specialty Product lines offered by Cigna Healthcare.
This position is for a highly skilled and experienced Senior AWS DevOps Engineer with over 6 years of experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining robust, scalable, and efficient cloud and on-premises infrastructure solutions. Proficient in AWS services, Windows and Linux administration, automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, UDeploy, and Jenkins, and collaboration tools like Confluence and Jira. Demonstrates strong problem-solving abilities, excellent communication skills, and a commitment to continuous improvement. Extensive experience with cloud-native services, GitHub Copilot, Checkmarx, and SonarQube enhances the ability to deliver scalable, cost-efficient, and resilient solutions.
· Architect and govern AWS cloud foundation & platform standards Design and evolve secure, scalable AWS architectures (accounts/environments, networking, IAM, resiliency patterns) and define reference architectures/guardrails that teams can adopt consistently across portfolios.
· Lead CI/CD strategy and delivery automation (end-to-end) Architect, build, and continuously improve CI/CD workflows for applications and infrastructure, enabling repeatable releases with strong governance—e.g., standardized workflows, hardened runners, promotion patterns, and integration to enterprise change/release processes.
· Implement “quality-by-default” engineering controls and pipeline gates Define and enforce engineering controls such as mandatory PR checks, build/test
automation, code quality thresholds, and consistent branching/merge practices so teams ship safely and predictably.
· Own Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) architecture and reusable building blocks Champion IaC (e.g., Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK patterns) and create reusable modules/templates (“golden paths”) that enable self-service environment provisioning and consistent architecture implementation across teams.
· Embed DevSecOps: security, secrets, and compliance as code Integrate security scanning and compliance controls into pipelines (SAST/SCA, policy-as-code, secrets management) and partner with security to ensure AWS environments meet enterprise risk requirements without slowing delivery.
· Establish reliability, observability, and operational excellence (SRE mindset) Define service-level objectives (SLOs), observability baselines, logging/metrics/tracing standards, and operational readiness practices (runbooks, alerting, error budgets) to improve stability and reduce MTTR.
· Drive cross-team enablement, coaching, and continuous improvement Serve as a hands-on technical leader who mentors engineers, partners with architecture/dev/security/QE, and leads adoption of standardized tooling and practices—improving developer experience, consistency, and delivery throughput.
Education:
· Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.
Experience:
· 13-16 years of over all technical experience
· 6+ years of experience in a DevOps role, with a strong focus on AWS.
· Design and implement scalable cloud infrastructure using modern DevOps practices.
· Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
· Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes (EKS).
· Strong understanding of networking concepts and security best practices.
· Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch, ELK Stack, or Prometheus.
· Maven builds.
· Microsoft TFS to build and deploy .NET solutions.
· Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure.
· Strong communication and collaboration skills.
· Windows and Linux server administration.
· Binary object repositories.
Skills:
· Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, EKS, VPC, CloudFormation, CloudWatch)
· Operating Systems: Windows Server, Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat)
· Automation Tools: Jenkins, CloudBees CI, UDeploy, Ansible, Terraform
· Scripting Languages: Python, Bash, PowerShell
· Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS)
· Version Control: GitHub, GitHub Enterprise Cloud
· CI/CD Pipelines: Design, implementation, and management using CloudBees CI, Jenkins, and UDeploy
· Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Ansible
· Monitoring and Logging: CloudWatch, ELK Stack, Prometheus
· Security: Implementing best practices for securing cloud and on-premises infrastructure
· Collaboration Tools: Confluence, Jira
· Cloud-Native Services: Serverless computing (AWS Lambda), microservices architecture, machine learning (AWS SageMaker), analytics (AWS Athena)
· Development Tools: GitHub Copilot for enhanced code quality and development efficiency
· Code Quality and Security: Checkmarx for static application security testing (SAST), SonarQube for code quality analysis and continuous inspection
About Evernorth Health Services
Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group, creates pharmacy, care and benefit solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.
