Director, AI Network & Data Center Engineering

CVS Health; Jackson (MS); On-site; USD 144,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision

Paid time off

401(k) retirement plan

Job summary

CVS Health seeks a Lead Director to drive the strategy, design, and delivery of enterprise network infrastructure supporting AI/ML workloads. You will lead a high-performing team and partner with cloud, platform, and security leaders to enable low-latency GPU environments, secure connectivity, and scalable data center networks.

The role emphasizes governance, automation, and strategic planning to support growth, AI demand, and digital transformation across the organization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience in network and/or data center engineering.
• 5+ years' experience in a strategic leadership position with people management.
• 5+ years' experience in large scale enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and enforce network architecture standards, security controls, and compliance policies.
• Establish best practices for configuration, deployment, and operations.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise governance frameworks (HIPAA, NIST, PCI, HITRUST, CSA).
• Advise executives on network strategy, roadmaps, emerging technologies, and industry trends.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (platform, cloud, security, infrastructure) to deliver integrated, secure and scalable solutions.
• Engage vendors on solution architectures, design, contracts, and delivery.
• Design and implement: data center fabrics (leaf-spine, Clos, EVPN/VXLAN).
• AI/GPU-optimized networking (low latency, high throughput) and related technologies.
• Optimize performance for GPU workloads (RDMA, RoCE, ECN, PFC).
• GCP and multi-cloud network architectures.
• Routing & switching (BGP, OSPF, MPLS, STP; Cisco, Juniper, Arista).
• High-speed networking (100/200/400Gb+)
• GPU cluster networking, traffic optimization, and congestion management.
• Drive network monitoring and performance optimization (SolarWinds, NetFlow, Wireshark).
• Support SaaS and multi-tenant environments with zero trust patterns.
• Oversee 24/7 network operations across cloud and data centers.
• Lead incident response and ensure high availability, resiliency and scalability across network and cloud environments.
• Build and mentor high-performing engineering teams.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning.
• Advance networking capabilities for AI/ML infrastructure and GPU clusters.
• Champion automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Contribute to industry and open-source initiatives.
• Own network architecture strategy and roadmap.
• Define standards for AI, cloud, and data center environments.
• Support budgeting, risk management, and long-term planning.

Skills

Network architecture

Security controls

Leadership

Strategic planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud & data center

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Cisco Nexus/ACI

EVPN/VXLAN

IaC/Automation

BGP/OSPF

Job description

CVS Health seeks a Lead Director to drive the strategy, design, and delivery of enterprise network infrastructure supporting AI/ML workloads. You will lead a high-performing team and partner with cloud, platform, and security leaders to enable low-latency GPU environments, secure connectivity, and scalable data center networks.

The role emphasizes governance, automation, and strategic planning to support growth, AI demand, and digital transformation across the organization.