Infrastructure Engineering Advisor - The Cigna Group

This is a temporary contract opportunity with The Cigna Group through Magnit, an enterprise third-party vendor for contingent work. 

Overview:

• Provides expert content/professional leadership on complex Infrastructure assignments/projects.
• Serves as a technical consultant responsible for design, engineering and development of information technology solutions.
• Supports the design, analysis, development and implementation of engineering infrastructure solutions of projects and/or work requests for complex business solutions.
• Troubleshoots and proceeds on resolving infrastructure compatibility issues based on system architecture, project requirements, customer expectations, etc.
• May be involved in the creation of design specifications and the development and application of utility programs and may resolve infrastructure compatibility problems as they arise.
• Responsibilities may include risks assessments, partnering on capacity planning, budget forecasting, and the diagnosis and correction of application/network problems.
• May serve as the primary contact for vendors.
• Technologies span mainframe, midrange, desktop, server, network data, voice, messaging, web, database, and output/receiving.
• Exercises considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in conceiving, planning, and delivering initiatives.
• Uses deep professional knowledge and acumen to advise functional leaders.
• Focuses on providing thought leadership within Infrastructure Engineering but works on broader projects, which require understanding of wider business.
• Recognized internally as a subject matter expert.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for taking on performance analysis and code optimization challenges across multiple application domains with a focus on the following objectives:

• End-to-End Performance Analysis: Analyze enterprise-level distributed environments and optimize performance bottlenecks in both our real-time data streaming and ETL warehouse application stacks.
• Capacity Planning & Optimization: Strategize capacity needs, identify trends and propose design recommendations to ensure resiliency and scalability.
• Environment Ownership: Manage and support the performance testing environment, and drive the initiatives that lead to optimal throughput and improved customer experiences.
• Automate for Performance: Design and build efficient process and automation tests for every release build.
• Developer Support: Diagnostics, reverse-engineering microservices and NeoLoad/JMeter script development to deliver performance outcomes at scale.

• BS or higher in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years in a performance engineering role analyzing, troubleshooting and automating performance workloads on large scale systems
• 5+ years of experience with build automation tools utilizing CI/CD pipelines
• Deep knowledge of Java and its internal (e.g. JVM performance tuning, GC mechanisms, etc.) and familiarity with Java Profiling (e.g. JProfiler, YourKit, Glowroot)
• Outstanding attention to detail and communication skills
• Experience identifying bottlenecks across various layers of web application stacks (client, network, backend)
• Hands-on experience in load testing tools like Jmeter, Loadrunner, and other open source products
• Experience working and optimizing large scale distributed applications on hybrid cloud platforms
• Experience building frameworks and driving architecture design for testability
• Expert level understanding of the key performance metrics associated with throughput, latency, memory, CPU, disk & network and the ability to debug bottlenecks associated with any of them
• Expertise with Oracle, NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis), and SQL Server database analysis and tuning
• Thorough knowledge of OpenShift or similar experience in containerized design patterns
• Experience with Fuse, Kafka and other Red Hat products preferred
• History of migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud a plus

Tools:

• Yourkit, JProfiler, Glowroot, Dynatrace, TeamQuest, JProbe, Sitescope, Splunk, Memory Analyzer, TDA, Loadrunner, JMeter, Noeload, Gatling, CA Wiley Introscope, Grafana, IBM GC Analyzer.

Cloud & DevOps:

• AWS API Gateway, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Console, AWS Lambda, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon EC2 Compute Service, Amazon Route 53, Aurora, Amazon EBS, Amazon Elastic Container Service(ECS) Fargate, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), DynamoDB and Terraform (IaC).

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in a technology related field preferred

Hourly Pay Rate Range (dependent on location, experience, expectation) 

The pay range that Magnit reasonably expects to pay for this position is: $45.00/hour-$60.12/hour 

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K (provided minimum eligibility hours are met)