Cloud Platform Director: AWS, DevOps & AI Leadership

9025 CVS Shared Services Resources LLC; Connecticut; On-site; USD 144,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Paid time off

Retirement savings

Wellness programs

Equity award

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Director for Cloud Platform within Digital Engineering. You’ll own multiple platform teams, set AWS strategy, govern security, and drive cost optimization while enabling faster delivery through self‑service tooling.

This role reports to an AVP and partners with executive leadership. You will lead AI adoption across the platform, shape CI/CD standards, and build scalable, compliant infrastructure for healthcare products and services.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering.
• 7+ years of experience leading engineering teams, managers, and technical portfolios.
• 5+ years of hands-on AWS at enterprise scale experience - compute, networking, IAM, and managed data/messaging services such as MSK (Kafka), PostgreSQL (RDS/Aurora), and OpenSearch; serverless experience (Lambda, Fargate, Step Functions)

Responsibilities

• Set cloud platform strategy, target-state AWS architecture, and multi-year roadmap with stakeholders.
• Own AWS security architecture and governance, landing zone design, and guardrails to meet regulatory requirements (HIPAA/HITRUST).
• Lead AI adoption via AI-assisted engineering tools and AI-driven platform operations with governance.
• Drive CI/CD standards and Infrastructure-as-Code adoption; build self-service capabilities for environments and pipelines.
• Manage cloud cost as a portfolio: visibility, showback/chargeback, and annual optimization targets.
• Own platform observability, SLOs, incident management, and capacity planning.
• Lead multiple engineering teams and managers: design, hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• Represent platform to executives, communicate health and tradeoffs, evaluate new tech for strategic fit.

Skills

Infrastructure leadership

AWS

DevOps

CI/CD

Cloud security

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

MSK

PostgreSQL

OpenSearch

Lambda

Fargate

Step Functions

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Director for Cloud Platform within Digital Engineering. You’ll own multiple platform teams, set AWS strategy, govern security, and drive cost optimization while enabling faster delivery through self‑service tooling.

This role reports to an AVP and partners with executive leadership. You will lead AI adoption across the platform, shape CI/CD standards, and build scalable, compliant infrastructure for healthcare products and services.