Application Development Senior Advisor- Hybrid

The Cigna Group; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The Cigna Group is seeking an Application Development Senior Advisor in Raleigh, NC to ensure stability and reliability of critical applications. Responsibilities include managing support operations, leading incident resolution, and mentoring support engineers.

The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's in a relevant field and extensive experience with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes. This hybrid position offers a chance to make an impact in healthcare technology.

Qualifications

• 5 years in a Senior/Lead application support role in healthcare; or 3 years with a Master's degree.
• Experience with supporting distributed event-driven systems across AWS services.
• Proficiency in programming with Python and modern API frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Manage support operations and lead incident resolution efforts.
• Work cross-functionally with engineering and business teams.
• Provide technical leadership for application support.

Skills

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

CI/CD

Splunk

Agile processes

HIPAA Transactions

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, or related field

Master's degree

Tools

CloudWatch

Dynatrace

Fast API

Flask

Amazon EKS

Job description

Overview

Cigna-Evernorth Services Inc. seeks an Application Development Senior Advisor for the Raleigh, NC location to play a pivotal role in ensuring the stability, performance, and reliability of mission-critical applications in a production environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage support operations, lead incident resolution efforts, and drive improvements in production support processes.
• Work cross-functionally with engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, and business teams, while also mentoring support engineers and overseeing operational readiness for deployments.
• Use AWS Cloud to provide technical and managerial leadership to our production support operations. Interact with business users and participate in Agile processes and ownership of application support KPIs.
• Help lead the resolution of incidents, document root causes, and guide the support team in delivering consistent, reliable production support services.
• Lead and coordinate daily production support operations, ensuring high availability of key applications.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for high-severity (P1/P2) incidents, leading resolution and post-mortem efforts.
• Provide technical and managerial leadership to the application support team.
• Coordinate and participate in scrum and stakeholder meetings, providing updates and prioritizing critical incidents.
• Review and track team deliverables and provide regular status reports to stakeholders.
• Manage client escalations and coordinate resolution efforts with upstream/downstream application teams.
• Deliver Level 2 support for AWS-hosted applications by identifying and resolving technical issues.
• Conduct daily health checks, application monitoring, and AWS Batch job triaging.
• Monitor CloudWatch dashboards, setting alarms, and investigating anomalies or failures.
• Simulate and reproduce issues in lowe environments and provide validated resolution.
• Maintain and update issue logs, providing reconciliation reports, and ensuring documentation of permanent fixes.
• Participate in client calls, feedback gathering, and simulation of business-critical issues.
• Support the client in user story and EPIC discussions and provide feedback for feature improvements.
• Communicate production status and issues clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive support tasks and improve observability.
• May be asked to supervise a small team of software engineers.
• Hybrid work schedule.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, or related field and 5 years of experience in any Senior/Lead application support role in the healthcare domain. Will accept a Master’s degree and 3 years of experience.
• Must have experience with: AWS; Docker; Kubernetes; Amazon EKS;
• ITIL including incident management, change management, CMDB management, and service request fulfillment;
• Architecting and supporting distributed event-driven systems across AWS services including computation, messaging, orchestration, and data platforms;
• Cloud-native observability using CloudWatch; Incident Diagnostics Using Dynatrace;
• Cross component failure analysis using Splunk;
• API ecosystems, asynchronous workflows, large-scale batch process, and data handling in DynamoDB and OpenSearch;
• Programming in Python and modern API frameworks including integration into CI/CD and DevOps automation;
• Fast API; Flask;
• Navigating complex incident, change, and release management processes within an Agile environment;
• Collaborating with diverse technical and business stakeholders across large-scale cloud systems;
• HIPAA Transactions; and, Edifecs System.

If 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.

About The Cigna Group

Doing 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.

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