Senior Application Development Advisor

The Cigna Group

Application Development Senior Advisor at Cigna managing mission-critical applications for Voice Self-Service and Automation. Leading automation initiatives and driving operational excellence across platforms.

Posted 7/23/2026full-timeBloomfield • Colorado, Connecticut, Minnesota, Montana, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $122,200 - $203,600 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in driving the reliability, availability, and scalability of mission-critical applications, with a strong focus on automation, monitoring, and operational excellence. Proficient in collaborating across teams to implement resilient solutions and improve service availability through data-driven analysis.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Site Reliability EngineeringPython DevelopmentAWS ServicesMonitoring and Alerting SolutionsInfrastructure as Code (IaC)

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Hard Skills

Site Reliability EngineeringPython DevelopmentMonitoring and Alerting SolutionsInfrastructure as Code (IaC)ContainerizationOrchestration TechnologiesKey Performance Indicators (KPIs)Service Level Objectives (SLOs)Automation SolutionsOperational Metrics

Soft Skills

Problem-SolvingAnalytical SkillsCollaborationCommunication SkillsTroubleshooting Skills

Tools & Technologies

AWSDynatraceSplunkDockerKubernetesTerraformGitHub ActionsJenkinsDatabricksSnowflake

Certifications & Qualifications

AWS Certification

Industry Keywords

Cloud OperationsAutomationObservabilityPlatform ResiliencyMission-Critical Applications

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDockerEC2JenkinsKubernetesPythonSplunkTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Drive the reliability, availability, and scalability of mission-critical applications supporting Voice Self-Service and Automation capabilities
Lead and support a blended team of employees and consultants operating across onshore and offshore locations in a 24x7 environment
Implement proactive monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to identify and resolve issues before they impact customers or business operations
Conduct root cause analysis of application and system failures, implementing sustainable corrective actions to prevent recurrence
Develop automation solutions that streamline deployments, configuration management, operational processes, and application health checks
Partner with engineering teams to design, deploy, and support resilient solutions that maximize system stability and performance
Advance self-healing capabilities that reduce manual intervention and improve overall service availability
Analyze availability, reliability, and performance metrics to identify improvement opportunities and drive operational excellence
Participate in major incident management, service restoration activities, and post-incident reviews impacting the STP organization
Champion best practices in cloud operations, automation, observability, and platform resiliency.

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ years of experience supporting enterprise applications in development, site reliability engineering, operations, or related technology roles
3+ years of hands-on Python development experience
Experience managing highly available, scalable, and resilient applications in production environments
Experience defining, measuring, and improving key performance indicators (KPIs), service level objectives (SLOs), and operational metrics
Hands-on experience with AWS services, including IAM, EC2, S3, CloudWatch, Lambda, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, Glue, Athena, and related technologies
Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, and operational support solutions
Strong problem-solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills
Proven ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, operations, and business teams
Experience using enterprise monitoring and logging tools, including Dynatrace and Splunk
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes (preferred)
Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), preferably using Terraform (preferred)
Experience with Databricks and Snowflake platforms (preferred)
Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar automation platforms (preferred)
AWS certification (preferred)
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field (preferred)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs
401(k)
Company paid life insurance
Tuition reimbursement
Minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year
Paid holidays
Leaves of absence