Senior Cloud Platform Architect - AWS Migration Leader

Cigna Healthcare; Bloomfield (CT); On-site; USD 152,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid time off

Job summary

The Cigna Group is seeking a Principal Architect, Platform Infrastructure in Connecticut to lead cloud infrastructure and DevOps strategy. You will guide AWS migration, establish standard patterns, and collaborate with Platform Engineering and SRE to ensure secure, reliable, and cost-effective systems.

You will manage the DevOps and Infrastructure team, mentor staff, and influence senior leaders while partnering with finance for cloud cost initiatives.

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

• Set and maintain the vision for infrastructure and DevOps across platform engineering.
• Create standard patterns for cloud accounts, setup, environments, and tools.
• Make sure solutions follow company architecture and security rules and are easy for teams to use.
• Find problems that are best solved once at the platform level instead of by each team.
• Lead the AWS migration from start to finish, including account rules, lift-and-shift, and updating moved workloads.
• Find all AWS accounts across engineering and bring them into our standard platform patterns.
• Set and enforce standards for new and existing accounts, including tagging, access, guardrails, and cost control.
• Work with the Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE), AWS account teams, and finance/FinOps partners to use credit and incentive programs tied to migration results.
• Track and share progress, risks, and dependencies across applications and accounts.
• Be the infrastructure and DevOps partner to platform engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Make sure our infrastructure and DevOps practices support developer needs, reliability, and resiliency.
• Line up roadmaps so work like migration, tools, and standards happens in the right order without repeated effort.
• Manage the DevOps and Infrastructure team. Set priorities, coach team members, and connect their work to the infrastructure and migration roadmap.
• Act as a senior technical expert. Review designs and guide infrastructure and DevOps decisions across platform and application teams.
• Help solve hard infrastructure and cloud problems that cross teams.
• Work as a technical partner to senior engineering, architecture, and security leaders.
• Make decisions on your own within clear company guidelines.

Job description

The Cigna Group is seeking a Principal Architect, Platform Infrastructure in Connecticut to lead cloud infrastructure and DevOps strategy. You will guide AWS migration, establish standard patterns, and collaborate with Platform Engineering and SRE to ensure secure, reliable, and cost-effective systems.

You will manage the DevOps and Infrastructure team, mentor staff, and influence senior leaders while partnering with finance for cloud cost initiatives.