AWS Platform Architect & Infra Leader

Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company; Morris Plains (NJ); On-site; USD 152,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & welfare benefits

401(k) plan

Life insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

The Cigna Group is seeking a Principal Architect, Platform Infrastructure in Morris Plains, NJ. You will guide cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and SRE practices to secure, cost-effective, and scalable systems while leading our AWS migration and setting standard platform patterns.

You will partner with Platform Engineering, SRE, and security leaders, manage the DevOps and Infrastructure team, and drive roadmap decisions that enable fast, safe delivery for engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of related experience.
• Experience designing and leading cloud infrastructure, especially on AWS.
• Experience leading cloud migrations, including lift-and-shift and modernization.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps practices and tools.
• Understanding of cloud account governance, including tagging, access controls, guardrails, and cost management.
• Familiarity with platform engineering and site reliability practices.
• Experience managing, coaching, and guiding a technical team.
• Ability to influence senior leaders through expertise, teamwork, and credibility.

Responsibilities

• Set and maintain the vision for infrastructure and DevOps across platform engineering.
• Create standard patterns for cloud accounts, setup, environments, and tools.
• Lead the AWS migration from start to finish, including account rules, lift-and-shift, and updating moved workloads.
• Be the infrastructure and DevOps partner to platform engineering and SRE so all three groups work as one team.
• Manage the DevOps and Infrastructure team, coach members, and guide decisions across teams.
• Review designs and guide infrastructure and DevOps decisions across platform and application teams.

Skills

Cloud architecture leadership

AWS cloud

DevOps practices

Team leadership

Security and cost management

Strategic roadmap planning

Tools

AWS

FinOps

Tagging & governance

Job description

The Cigna Group is seeking a Principal Architect, Platform Infrastructure in Morris Plains, NJ. You will guide cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and SRE practices to secure, cost-effective, and scalable systems while leading our AWS migration and setting standard platform patterns.

You will partner with Platform Engineering, SRE, and security leaders, manage the DevOps and Infrastructure team, and drive roadmap decisions that enable fast, safe delivery for engineering teams.