# Principal Architect, Platform Infrastructure

**Company**: The Cigna Group
**Location**: Morris Plains, NJ
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 151,600 - 252,600 USD / yearly
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Principal Architect, Platform Infrastructure is a senior technical leader who guides the company's cloud and technology systems, ensuring they are secure, well-managed, and cost-effective.

**Responsibilities:**

**Infrastructure and DevOps Architecture**

- Set and maintain the vision for infrastructure and DevOps across platform engineering.

- Create standard patterns for cloud accounts, setup, environments, and tools.

- Ensure solutions follow company architecture and security rules and are easy for teams to use.

- Identify problems that are best solved once at the platform level instead of by each team.

**AWS Migration and Cloud Account Governance**

- Find and list on-premises and existing cloud workloads to decide what should move.

- 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 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.

**Partnership with Platform Engineering and SRE**

- Be the infrastructure and DevOps partner to platform engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) so all three groups work as one team.

- Ensure infrastructure and DevOps practices support developer needs, reliability, and resiliency.

- Align roadmaps so work like migration, tools, and standards happens in the right order without repeated effort.

**Team and Technical Leadership**

- Manage the DevOps and Infrastructure team, setting priorities, coaching team members, and connecting their work to the infrastructure and migration roadmap.

- Act as a senior technical expert, reviewing designs and guiding 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.

**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

## Skills

### Required
- AWS
- DevOps
- cloud infrastructure
- platform engineering
- site reliability
- cloud migration
- cloud account governance
- tagging
- access controls
- guardrails
- cost management

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