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# Architecture Principal - Platform Infrastructure

- **Company:** Cigna
- **Location:** Minneapolis, MN, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $151,600 - $252,600
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Internet Service Provider, Reliability Engineering, Cloud Services, Cloud Migration
- **Published:** November 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.minneapoliscareersite.com/job.asp?id=3494076768&tx=ZT2928THD&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* 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

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.

## Description

You will set the direction, rules, and roadmap for infrastructure and DevOps. You will not design applications or manage delivery for application teams., 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.
 * Make sure solutions follow company architecture and security rules and are easy for teams to use.
 * Find problems that are best solved once at the platform level instead of by each team.

AWS Migration and Cloud Account Governance

 * Find and list our 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 our 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.
 * Make sure our infrastructure and DevOps practices support developer needs, reliability, and resiliency.
 * Line up 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. Set priorities, coach team members, and connect their work to the infrastructure and migration roadmap.
 * Act as a senior technical expert. Review designs and guide 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.