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In this role, you will actively participate with your development team on initiatives that support Evernorth's strategic goals as well as subject matter experts to understand business logic you will be engineering. As a software engineer, you will help develop an integrated architectural strategy to support next-generation capabilities on an enterprise-wide scale. You will work in an agile environment, delivering user-oriented products.\nThe ideal candidate will work in a team environment that demands technical excellence, whose members are expected to hold each other accountable for the overall success of the end product. Focus for this team is on the delivery of innovative solutions to complex problems, but also with a mind to drive simplicity in refining and supporting of the solution by others.\nRoles & Responsibilities\nElastic Platform Administration\nAdminister and support a production self-hosted Elastic Stack environment. \nManage Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Elastic Agents, and supporting platform components. \nPerform cluster health monitoring, troubleshooting, capacity planning, and performance optimization. \nConfigure and maintain Index Lifecycle Management (ILM), retention policies, shard allocation strategies, and storage management. \nExecute platform upgrades, patching activities, and lifecycle management. \nImplement and maintain backup, recovery, and disaster recovery procedures. \nObservability Engineering\nDesign and implement telemetry collection solutions for applications, databases, and infrastructure platforms. \nIntegrate operational data from sources such as: \nApache Airflow \nPostgreSQL \nLinux Servers \nAPIs and Services \nOn-Premises Infrastructure \nFuture Hybrid Cloud Platforms \nDevelop and maintain custom ingestion pipelines using Logstash, Elastic Agents, Beats, and OpenTelemetry collectors. \nEnsure reliable collection and delivery of logs, metrics, and traces. \nMonitoring & Alerting\nCreate operational dashboards, alerts, and monitoring solutions within Kibana. \nDevelop automated alerting capabilities for application, infrastructure, and platform health monitoring. \nConfigure anomaly detection jobs and rule-based alerting to proactively identify issues. \nCollaborate with application teams to define meaningful operational metrics and alert thresholds. \nContinually improve observability coverage across supported platforms. \nApplication Performance Monitoring (APM)\nConfigure and maintain Elastic APM instrumentation across supported applications. \nMonitor application performance, latency, throughput, and error rates. \nAnalyze distributed traces to identify bottlenecks and performance concerns. \nDevelop Kibana dashboards that provide actionable performance insights for engineering teams. \nSupport adoption of OpenTelemetry standards and best practices. \nPlatform Reliability & Optimization\nOptimize Elasticsearch cluster performance and resource utilization. \nMonitor index growth, storage consumption, and ingestion rates. \nSupport infrastructure hosting Elastic clusters, including servers, storage, and platform resources. \nEvaluate opportunities to improve operational efficiency and reduce platform costs. \nAssist with future migrations and integrations supporting hybrid deployment models. \nQualifications\nRequired Experience & Education:\n5-8 years of experience in Platform Engineering, Observability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or related fields. \n4+ years of hands-on experience administering production Elastic Stack environments. \nExperience supporting self-hosted Elasticsearch clusters. \nExperience managing: \nElasticsearch \nKibana \nLogstash \nElastic Agents \nBeats \nExperience building custom log and telemetry ingestion pipelines. \nExperience implementing monitoring, alerting, and anomaly detection solutions. \nExperience with Linux administration. \nExperience working with REST APIs and telemetry integrations. \nExperience with Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages. \nRequired Skills:\nPython, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Elastic Agents and APM, OpenTelemetry, Distributed Tracing, Metrics Collection, Log Analytics, Alerting & Monitoring. \nPreferred Skills, Experience & Education:\nExperience implementing Elastic APM solutions. \nExperience with OpenTelemetry. \nExperience collecting observability data from Airflow, PostgreSQL, and distributed applications. \nExperience supporting hybrid cloud environments. \nFamiliarity with AWS services and cloud observability practices. \nExperience with Docker or Kubernetes environments. \nKnowledge of infrastructure monitoring and capacity planning. \nElastic Certified Observability Engineer certification is a plus. \nLocation & Hours of Work\n(Specify whether the position is remote, hybrid, in-office and where the role is located as well as the required hours of work)\nEqual Opportunity Statement\nEvernorth 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.\nAbout Evernorth Health Services\nEvernorth 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. 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