About Cigna

Let us tell you a little more about us. Cigna exists to improve lives. Together, with our 74,000 employees worldwide that service Cigna, Express Scripts and other affiliate customers, we aspire to transform health services, making them more affordable and accessible to millions.

We are going through an exciting period of expansion; at the centre of our International division’s ambitious growth strategy we are currently working towards multi-year effort to implement a consistent digital strategy for the International Markets (IM).

About the Job

The DevOps Engineer has a fantastic opportunity to help bring the benefits of DevOps to a wider audience throughout Europe, APAC and North America. Key to our ongoing success is a growth mindset and understanding the value of culture over tooling, as well as outcomes over output.

We develop in multiple cloud platforms (Public and Private), traditional Datacentres and Salesforce, so the DevOps Engineer will need to be an application or infrastructure SME in at least one of these areas, with the ability to upskill quickly in the others as required.

About You

You are a driver, not a passenger on your team, demonstrating a passion for solving difficult technical challenges, propelling delivery forward. The greater the challenge, the more you stand out.

You have a breadth of knowledge in computer science, a problem-solving mentality and a desire to learn.

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting teams in their adoption of DevOps: Tell me; Show me; Involve me
• Supporting and driving a culture of continuous improvement and quality engineering principles across IM Technology Services
• Contributing to Dev

Ops Strategy and Roadmap:

• Bringing a secure by design mindset from development practices through release
• Enhancing capabilities of International Markets DevOps tooling
• Evangelising and driving the adoption of Security best practices into the delivery teams
• Designing best practises and patterns to encourage consistency and reuse through IMCTS, while meeting compliance requirements
• Collaborating with Enterprise Co Es where appropriate to share practises/solutions and identify potential practises/solutions for reuse

Delivery Responsibilities

• Enable secure and compliant deployments from source control to production
• Ensure all IM DevOps tooling meets appropriate Cigna and regulatory requirements
• Coach and support teams in teams in their adoption of DevOps culture and tooling
• Architecting and delivering pilots and proofs-of-concept effort to spur innovation
• Mapping user stories to detailed technical specifications
• Ask smart questions, collaborate, team up, take risks, and champion new ideas
• Automate, Automate, Automate!

Required Skills

• A growth mindset
• Experience working within an Agile environment
• Ability to communicate with stakeholders including Environment Management, Test Management, Infrastructure Management, Application Developers etc
• Ability to work and communicate in an international and multi-cultural environment.
• In depth experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) and associated tooling (source control, pipelines etc)
• Comfortable with either Windows or Linux system command line management (preferably both)
• Understands the ‘why’ of DevOps and is able to communicate the benefits to people at all levels
• Strong scripting skills (Python, javascript, powershell or go)
• Experience of testing frameworks
• Experience with Public or Private Cloud
• Organized and structured approach with the ability to co-ordinate and manage multiple moving parts.
• Ability to estimate work effort required

Desired or “Plus” Skills

• Experience with .Net Core and Angular CI/CD patterns
• Understanding of SRE principals and practises
• Experience with advanced deployment patterns, including: Blue/Green deployments, rolling updates, canary releases, dark launches and feature toggles
• Software Development Experience
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code
• Exposure to Azure Dev

Ops or TFS:

• Experience with Container Orchestration

Why Should You Join Cigna?

You will get the chance to work with a global, truly innovative and flexible Technology division that is growing rapidly due to continued success and massive transformation.

We are constantly investing in, improving and innovating our global technology stack. Right now we are investing in Cloud, AI & ML as well as working heavily with Agile and DevOps methodologies.

You will join a business that truly invests in you as a person. You will be offered the opportunity to progress your knowledge and skills through both internal and external training, take secondment to other teams / projects and much more.

FLEXIBILITY – We are a truly flexible business. We offer a hybrid work model as well as flexible start / finish times. We pride ourselves on being able to offer a true work / life balance for all of our employees.

About The Cigna Group

Cigna Healthcare, a division of The Cigna Group, is an advocate for better health through every stage of life. We guide our customers through the health care system, empowering them with the information and insight they need to make the best choices for improving their health and vitality. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.