Infrastructure Engineering Senior Advisor

About EvernorthEvernorth Health Services a division of The Cigna Group NYSE CI creates pharmacy care and benefits 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 About Evernorth Evernorth Health Services a division of The Cigna Group NYSE CI creates pharmacy care and benefits 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 Position Overview As a NetDevOps team we at Evernorth are bringing Software Engineering Agile DevOps principles to Enterprise Networking and Enterprise Networking into the DevOps team NetDevOps is infrastructure as code it is automatingnetwork engineering operations to the furthest extent possible In this role you will Deliver infrastructure as code that has had automated end-to-end testing documentation via published work development processes standards Greatly reduce repetitive boring manual tasks so you can work on the fun challenging projects that advance efficiency and operational integrity of Cigna s IT infrastructure Prevent fat finger mistakes or other errors and revert configurations back to the last working configuration to restore network services as quickly as possible ResponsibilitiesAs a Network automation engineer you will Interact with network engineers to create innovative solutions to reduce network impacting incidents improve speed and accuracy of changes reduce manual work and enhance network tooling visibility Documenting the existing standards and develop designs to improve the efficiency of the automation solutions Work in an Agile framework and will be part of the Scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning Daily Stand up Sprint review and retrospective etc Build REST APIs using Python Work closely with QA team to include automated testing into the build pipeline Work with the team to improve process practice and tools in support of software development and delivery by improving our existing pipeline Maintains the continuous integration servers used by the team Support the team during code releases Responsible for resolving infrastructure related events if an issue arises QualificationsRequired Skills Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels of the organization Expert in automation with solid experience in Network automation with Python Four years experience with Django Django Rest Framework Experience with using Ansible Vault and creating Ansible Playbooks Strong background in Linux with a focus on RedHat in an enterprise production environment Experienced with Agile development environment Proficient understanding of code versioning tools especially Git Experienced with REST and SOAP API integrations Two to four years experience with modern web technologies such as Angular Node Grunt Gulp Webpack Bootstrap TypeScript HTML5 etc Emphasis on Angular TypeScript Exposure to RESTAPI web applications testing like SoapUI Postman etc Experience coding automation tests in a web application environment Selenium pytest etc Strong interest in learning new and emerging technologies Networking experience e g protocols routing switching filtering firewall rules etc is a plus Required Experience Education 13-16 years of total experience required Bachelors Degree Business or Computer Science preferred or equivalent work experience 6 years of Python development experience 3 years of solid DevOps experience Desired Experience Excellent communication and mentoring skills Creative problem-solving abilities and attention to detail Interpersonal skills to interact with customers and team members Ability to multitask and prioritize workload