Automation Engineer Associate Advisor HIH - Evernorth

Software/Devops Engineer

The Software Engineer in Actuarial Modeling is responsible for the development, support and execution of the actuarial medical underwriting calculation platform – HealthRatingEngine—which is a large-scale actuarial rating system built on modern cloud-native technologies. This role is part of the Cigna's Sales, Underwriting and Pricing Application Solution Group. The successful candidate will need to learn and understand the HealthRatingEngine architecture and infrastructure as well as its actuarial models, maintain and add to the existing test automation framework, and develop custom tools to aid Actuarial Modelers with development and testing.

Specific duties and responsibilities include creating and maintaining comprehensive performance and functional test strategies and test suites against our hardware and software platform. Seeking opportunities to improve performance and stability via development of new processes, tools and use of vendor products across software and hardware. Recommending, building and maintaining best in class DevOps pipeline including direct hands-on improvement and leveraging DevOps.

< >Champion software delivery best practices.Drive team to adapt automation testing and integration with CI/CD tools for continuous validation and deployment.Understand when to automate and when not to.Drive the mentality of product quality being owned by the entire team.Can identify code smells and work with modeler to address quality or performance issues in product code.Passion for finding bottlenecks in existing code through the use of monitoring tools and hands on analysis.Passion for continuing education, improving code delivery and product quality.Able to meet deadlines working independently and directing others, escalate to management as appropriate.

Education:

< >Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or the like.Experience:

< >Minimum of 5 years of working in DevOps, or DevelopmentSkills:

< >Excellent verbal and written communication skills.Strong understanding of software development and testing techniques.Excellent troubleshooting skills to identify root causes of issues in a complex system.Understanding of container strategies, Docker, OpenShift/Kubernetes or similar.Understanding of AWS Infrastructure (EKS).Demonstrated skill using coding standards and being an active participant in code reviews.3+ years of experience developing in scripting and/or object oriented languages such as Java, C/C++, .NET/C#, Python, Perl, and JavaScript, BASH.REST API’sExtensive knowledge of Windows and Linux environments.Demonstrated experience in DevOps/Testing tools such as Jenkins, Conduit, ARGOCD Git, Selenium, Robot framework or similar.Understanding of HELM Charts, YAML configuration and the like.Has experience in using scanning and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, SonarQube, Fortify, Veracode or similar.Any knowledge of Actuarial methods or tools such as FJA Product Machine, OCL.Experience developing queries and reports for Splunk, to interrogate and extract logged data and monitor applications performance, stability, bottlenecks.Knowledge of Juypter or similar notebook coding.Prior experience with multi-threaded applications.Innate ability to leverage data to drive decisions.

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.

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