Senior Cloud & DevOps Architect - AWS Migration Leader

Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company; United States; Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Life insurance

Job summary

The Cigna Group is seeking an Architecture Principal for Platform Infrastructure to shape cloud and DevOps strategy across the enterprise. This senior leadership role drives secure, cost-efficient infrastructure patterns, guides AWS migrations, and partners with Platform Engineering and SRE to deliver reliable services.

You will mentor the DevOps and Infrastructure team, define standards, govern cloud accounts, and collaborate with security and finance partners to align roadmaps with business

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.
• Ability to work with finance partners on cloud costs and incentive programs.
• Strong skills in tracking and reporting progress, risks, and dependencies.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive infrastructure and DevOps architecture vision across platform engineering and SRE.
• Create standard patterns for cloud accounts, setup, environments, and tools.
• Lead the AWS migration end-to-end, including account rules, lift-and-shift, and updating moved workloads.
• Set and enforce standards for new and existing accounts, including tagging, access controls, guardrails, and cost management.
• Partner with Platform Engineering and SRE to align roadmaps and ensure reliability and resiliency across teams.
• Manage the DevOps and Infrastructure team; coach members and connect work to migration roadmap.
• Review designs and guide infrastructure and DevOps decisions across platform and application teams.
• Collaborate with senior engineering, architecture, and security leaders to solve cross-cutting problems.
• Track progress, risks, and dependencies and report to leadership.

Skills

AWS cloud architecture

Cloud migration leadership

DevOps practices

Cloud account governance

Platform engineering collaboration

Team leadership

Executive stakeholder influence

Cost management & FinOps

Progress tracking & reporting

Communication

Job description

The Cigna Group is seeking an Architecture Principal for Platform Infrastructure to shape cloud and DevOps strategy across the enterprise. This senior leadership role drives secure, cost-efficient infrastructure patterns, guides AWS migrations, and partners with Platform Engineering and SRE to deliver reliable services.

You will mentor the DevOps and Infrastructure team, define standards, govern cloud accounts, and collaborate with security and finance partners to align roadmaps with business