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You will guide how our company builds and runs its cloud and technology systems. Your goal is to make sure these systems are secure, well managed, and cost-effective, so platform and application teams can do their best work. You will work across cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and site reliability. A big part of this job is leading our move to AWS. You will also set the standard patterns that the Platform Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams build on. You will partner closely with the leaders of those teams. You will also manage the DevOps and Infrastructure team and be responsible for its results.\nYou will set the direction, rules, and roadmap for infrastructure and DevOps. You will not design applications or manage delivery for application teams.\nResponsibilities:\nInfrastructure and DevOps Architecture\nSet and maintain the vision for infrastructure and DevOps across platform engineering.\nCreate standard patterns for cloud accounts, setup, environments, and tools.\nMake sure solutions follow company architecture and security rules and are easy for teams to use.\nFind problems that are best solved once at the platform level instead of by each team.\nAWS Migration and Cloud Account Governance\nFind and list our on-premises and existing cloud workloads to decide what should move.\nLead the AWS migration from start to finish, including account rules, lift-and-shift, and updating moved workloads.\nFind all AWS accounts across engineering and bring them into our standard platform patterns.\nSet and enforce standards for new and existing accounts, including tagging, access, guardrails, and cost control.\nWork with the Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE), AWS account teams, and finance/FinOps partners to use credit and incentive programs tied to migration results.\nTrack and share progress, risks, and dependencies across applications and accounts.\nPartnership with Platform Engineering and SRE\nBe the infrastructure and DevOps partner to platform engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) so all three groups work as one team.\nMake sure our infrastructure and DevOps practices support developer needs, reliability, and resiliency.\nLine up roadmaps so work like migration, tools, and standards happens in the right order without repeated effort.\nTeam and Technical Leadership\nManage the DevOps and Infrastructure team. Set priorities, coach team members, and connect their work to the infrastructure and migration roadmap.\nAct as a senior technical expert. Review designs and guide infrastructure and DevOps decisions across platform and application teams.\nHelp solve hard infrastructure and cloud problems that cross teams.\nWork as a technical partner to senior engineering, architecture, and security leaders.\nMake decisions on your own within clear company guidelines.\nQualifications:\n8+ years of related experience\nExperience designing and leading cloud infrastructure, especially on AWS\nExperience leading cloud migrations, including lift-and-shift and modernization\nStrong knowledge of DevOps practices and tools\nUnderstanding of cloud account governance, including tagging, access controls, guardrails, and cost management\nFamiliarity with platform engineering and site reliability practices\nExperience managing, coaching, and guiding a technical team\nAbility to influence senior leaders through expertise, teamwork, and credibility\nAbility to work with finance partners on cloud costs and incentive programs\nStrong skills in tracking and reporting progress, risks, and dependencies\nClear written and verbal communication skills\nIf 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.For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 151,600 - 252,600 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.\nThis role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus and long term incentive plan.\nAt The Cigna Group, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you’ll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k), company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year, paid holidays, and leaves of absence. For more details on our employee benefits programs, click here.\nAbout The Cigna Group\nDoing 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.\nIf you need a reasonable accommodation to complete the online application process, please email  for assistance. Please note that this email inbox is dedicated to accommodation requests only and cannot provide application updates or accept resumes.\nThe Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. 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