**Cloud Engineering Lead Analyst** **ABOUT EVERNORTH:** Evernorth℠ exists to elevate health for all, because we believe health is the starting point for human potential and progress. As champions for affordable, predictable and simple health care, we solve the problems others don’t, won’t or can’t. Our innovation hub in India will allow us to work with the right talent, expand our global footprint, improve our competitive stance, and better deliver on our promises to stakeholders. We are passionate about making healthcare better by delivering world-class solutions that make a real difference. We are always looking upward. And that starts with finding the right talent to help us get there. **Position Overview** The job profile for this position is Cloud Engineering Lead Analyst. **Excited to grow your career?** At Evernorth, we’re bringing powerful health services capabilities and solutions together to unlock new potential. and new value. We strive to help our Customers, Clients, and their employees, make progress—at work and in life. Evernorth unites businesses that have as many as 30+ years of experience in the healthcare space. We’re bringing powerful health services capabilities and solutions together and as champions for affordable, predictable, and simple health care, we solve the problems others don't, won't, or can't. Together, we’re taking health services further with integrated data and analytics that help us deliver better care to more people. Evernorth is focused on elevating health for all. With open collaboration and unbiased guidance, we strive to deliver flexible, focused solutions. Evernorth is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Join Evernorth's Cloud patterns team in the software engineering excellent organization as a Full Stack Engineer. The team builds AWS patterns - fully architected, built and tested repeatable processes and templates. A pattern gives ready to use, tried and tested Infrastructure-as-code libraries (TF scripts), IAM policies, ci/cd config and step by step implementation guide. They enable faster time to market within guardrails of well architecture and cloud CoE practices as well as Fedramp compliance. Applications teams use these patterns for either migrate to AWS or for green field development on AWS. A typical day for cloud engineer may be dedicated to one of the following activities- identifying patterns, building a pattern, consulting problem statement, evolution of the patterns or support to application teams in adoption of a pattern. The team closely partners with cloud Coe, Enterprise architect, EKS platform teams, Enterprise DevOps, DBAs, Information protection organization and so on. **Responsibilities** As a Lead Analyst – Cloud Engineering, you will play a critical role in enabling application teams to adopt cloud patterns and solutions on AWS. You will collaborate with Agile teams to develop, validate, and maintain AWS patterns while ensuring best practices in cloud engineering. You must be passionate about cloud technologies, proactive in problem-solving, and capable of working independently to drive solutions forward. The ideal candidate thrives in a collaborative and high-performance environment, takes ownership of tasks, and is eager to learn and mentor others. You will contribute to delivering scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions while following software engineering best practices. **Key Responsibilities:** • Design and develop robust cloud solutions considering scalability, security, reliability, performance, operational excellence, and cost. • Work with product teams to build, test, and deploy cloud solutions using best practices. • Actively participate in Agile ceremonies such as stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint planning, and retrospectives. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and translate them into cloud solutions. • Identify risks and potential blockers in cloud adoption and work towards mitigating them. • Guide teams in implementing Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions. • Develop and integrate RESTful APIs while ensuring security and performance best practices. • Automate cloud deployments and improve maintainability, testability, and observability. • Document designs and solutions to provide clarity and enable smooth adoption. • Support day-to-day cloud operations and help teams troubleshoot AWS-related issues **Required Skills & Qualifications:** • 5–8 years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or related roles. • Mandatory: Strong expertise in Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC). • Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to tackling complex cloud challenges. • Experience with containerization and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, and ArgoCD. • Hands-on experience with AWS services such as S3, CloudFront, EKS, Aurora, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and AWS Networking. • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and tools like Git, Jenkins for automation. • Strong experience in developing and integrating RESTful web services. • Ability to mentor junior team members and contribute to knowledge sharing. • Excellent communication and ability to collaborate across teams. • Understanding of security best practices in AWS cloud environments. **Preferred Qualifications** • Experience with Spring Boot is a plus. • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or HashiCorp Terraform Associate Certification is preferred. • Knowledge of Cigna-specific tools (RAAS, CCOE P2P, CNP, ServiceNow) is a plus. This role offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud technologies, solve challenging problems, and contribute to cloud adoption at scale. **Location & Hours of Work** + Full-time position, working 40 hours per week. Expected overlap with US hours as appropriate + Primarily based in the Innovation Hub in Hyderabad, India in a hybrid working model (3 days WFO and 2 days WAH) **Equal Opportunity Statement** _Evernorth is an Equal Opportunity Employer actively encouraging and supporting organization-wide involvement of staff in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts to educate, inform and advance both internal practices and external work with diverse client populations._ **About Evernorth Health Services** Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group, creates pharmacy, care and benefit solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.