Infrastructure Engineering Advisor- Capacity- Work From Home

POSITION DESCRIPTION - Application Forensics Capacity Management

REPORTING RELATIONSHIP• Reports to Director/Manager/Team Lead - Forensics

KEY OBJECTIVE - Forensic Troubleshooting - On Premise and Cloud Infrastructure and Applications• Functions as an EOCC Forensics Team member and subject matter expert utilizing academic and/or practical systems and/or application level performance skills for analysis, troubleshooting and monitoring of key IT components.• Functions as an investigator for systems and application outages, issues, resolution and testing.• Adheres to the concept of "Site Reliability Engineering" (SRE). A site reliability engineer will spend up to 50% of their time doing operations related work such as handling issues, spending time on-call, and manual intervention. Since the software system that an SRE oversees is expected to be highly automatic and self-healing, the SRE should spend the other 50% of their time on development tasks such as adding new features, such as for scaling or automation. A site reliability engineer is usually either a software engineer with a good administration background or a skilled system administrator with knowledge of coding and automation. In general, an SRE team is responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning. • Will function as a technical subject matter expert in one or more areas of computer forensics investigation. Examples - Cloud computing, infrastructure, operating systems, applications, databases, network.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES• Proactive• Solicit and provide technical direction into constant improvement in the performance monitoring and analysis process to improve availability and reduce future mean time between failures. • Understand the technical design, current and proposed usage of infrastructure and IT services, as well as the maximum capacity and target performance of each component.• Utilize best practices of tooling, metrics, correlation, anomaly detection, methodologies, and education. Utilize expertise in these areas from industry, training, academia, and in-house conceptual testing.• Provide performance related feedback to Capacity Planners, application and product owners, platform and command center operations teams. • Reactive• Work with EOCC Incident and Problem Management, application owners, and support towers to lead or assist in resolving any performance or capacity related incidents or severe system/application problems.• Preventative• Support application Performance Volume Stress/Resiliency (PVSR) testing with the level of engagement varying by project scope, criticality or when performance problems are encountered during testing.• Service Level• Analyze performance information to establish/update performance baselines and projections.• Report on service and component performance against the targets.• Mentoring• Provide training and mentoring to other team members and to the IT community on systems and application performance topics in order to create and build better performance troubleshooting skills at various technical tiers and computing disciplines.• Additional• Attendance at continual technical training courses and conferences is required.• 24x7 support may occasionally be required.

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED• Education• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, OR a high level of comparable and focused work or academic experience• Required Skills• In depth knowledge of Linux and/or Windows operating system and VMware hypervisor• Familiarity with one or more systems/application/network management and performance tools (Splunk, CA Suite, New Relic, Dynatrace, TeamQuest, Prometheus, Opnet/Riverbed, NetScout and Wireshark)• Deep understanding of system capacity and availability concepts• Knowledge of the project and application development lifecycles as they pertain to resource capacity requirements• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels of the organization• Strong problem determination skills• Definite Plus Skills• In depth knowledge of container technology, OpenStack, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Pivotal Cloud Foundry• Understanding of Java Virtual Machine internals and performance concepts (heap and thread analysis and tools)• In depth knowledge of Windows Server operating system• Familiarity with AWS, Azure and other public and private cloud services• Knowledge of one or more database and middleware technologies (JBoss, WAS, DB2/UDB, Oracle, SQL Server. MongoDB, HADOOP)• Familiarity with one or more programming, scripting or configuration management languages (Puppet, Ansible, Python, PowerShell, .NET languages, etc)• Vendor training and/or certifications• Network analysis skills including packet capture concepts

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.

For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 93,800 - 156,300 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.

This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.

We want you to be healthy, balanced, and feel secure. That's why you'll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you'll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k) with company match, company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year and paid holidays. For more details on our employee benefits programs, visit Life at Cigna.

About Cigna

Cigna Corporation exists to improve lives. We are a global health service company dedicated to improving the health, well-being and peace of mind of those we serve. Together, with colleagues around the world, we aspire to transform health services, making them more affordable and accessible to millions. Through our unmatched expertise, bold action, fresh ideas and an unwavering commitment to patient-centered care, we are a force of health services innovation. When you work with us, or one of our subsidiaries, you'll enjoy meaningful career experiences that enrich people's lives. What difference will you make?

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