Application Development Senior Advisor - HIH - Evernorth

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

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