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The Cigna Group Cloud Engineering Senior Advisor - Evernorth Health Services - Hybrid in Bloomfield, Connecticut
Please note, candidates must be local to either Bloomfield, CT or Morris Plains, NJ
Position Summary
The Container Infrastructure team provides compute and storage services for our private cloud Kubernetes (OpenShift) environment. The hypervisor lead engineer should have extensive experience designing, building, maintaining, and troubleshooting large, virtualized environments. A strong emphasis on leveraging automation tools in RedHat Enterprise Linux to build and maintain environments. The lead engineer should also have direct experience in configuring network and storage for an enterprise scaled environment.
Responsibilities and Essential Functions
Partner with hardware vendors and value-added resellers to architect OpenStack environments to best practices
Build new and reconfigure existing OpenStack environments to latest specifications
Develop hardware and hypervisor Life Cycle Management processes
Partner with application teams to provide performance optimization suggestions based on application testing
Evaluate and deploy compute and hypervisor monitoring tools
Partner with security stakeholders to define vulnerability management and compliance policies
Identify OpenStack environment workload profiles and tune environment by workload types
Utilize automation to administer compute and hypervisor environment
Develop dashboards / reports to monitor the health of environment and communicate when changes are needed
Leverage ITSM processes to identify and mitigate incident reoccurrence
Lead Proof of Concepts (POCs) including working with application teams, consultant firms, and product vendors
Provide knowledge transfer to team members
Partner with application development and production support leaders as need
Engage in capacity planning discussions, forecasts, solutions
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher preferred or equivalent work experience.
Position Qualifications
10+ years of experience working in an environment supporting Redhat Enterprise Linux
Experience with product / vendor relationships
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Strong interpersonal and relationship skills
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Demonstrated Teamwork behaviors
Experience utilizing automation technologies
Experience managing large and complex enterprise environments
Experience migrating between major versions of OpenStack or from an alternative hypervisor
At least 5 years of experience as a Linux administrator in an enterprise environment
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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