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Application Development Senior Analyst - HIH - Evernorth

Hyderabad, India Full time

Application Development Senior Analyst – DevOps

Position Overview

We are looking to hire a DevOps Engineer with 3–5 years of hands-on experience in building, automating, and managing cloud-native platforms. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in AWS, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes (EKS), and database upgrades, with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and security.

This role requires a modern DevOps mindset, including practical knowledge of AI-powered tools to enhance DevOps productivity, automation, monitoring, and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate AWS-based cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to ensure scalability, reliability, and repeatability. Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab, and Azure DevOps to enable efficient build, test, and deployment workflows. Deploy, manage, and support containerized applications on Kubernetes (EKS), ensuring high availability and performance of workloads. Perform database upgrades and migrations with minimal downtime, ensuring data integrity, security, and backward compatibility. Develop and maintain automation scripts using Shell and Python to streamline infrastructure operations and deployment tasks. Implement monitoring and observability solutions using tools such as Grafana, enabling proactive detection and resolution of issues. Apply SRE principles to improve system reliability through automation, alerting, incident response, and continuous improvement practices. Ensure security, compliance, and cost optimization across cloud environments, collaborating closely with application, security, and Cloud COE/platform teams.

Qualifications

Required Skills and experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science or Engineering or related course work
  • 3–5 years of hands-on DevOps experience
  • Strong experience with AWS services
  • Proficiency in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
  • Solid experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps, etc.)
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS) and containerised workloads
  • Experience performing database upgrades and migrations
  • Strong scripting skills (Shell, Python, etc.)
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Grafana
  • Know SRE (System Reliability Engineering).
  • Ensure security, compliance, and cost optimisation across cloud environments
  • Collaborate closely with application, security, and platform teams like Cloud COE. 

Location & Hours of Work

(Specify whether the position is remote, hybrid, in-office and where the role is located as well as the required hours of work)

Equal Opportunity Statement

Evernorth is an Equal Opportunity Employer actively encouraging and supporting organization-wide involvement of staff in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts to educate, inform and advance both internal practices and external work with diverse client populations.

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.