Director, AI Network & Data Center Engineering

CVSHealth; New York (NY); On-site; USD 144,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Director of AI Network & Data Center Engineering to lead strategy, design, and delivery of our high-performance network and GPU-enabled data center environments. You will guide a team of engineers, collaborate with cloud, platform, and cybersecurity leaders, and drive automation and secure, scalable solutions across enterprise infrastructure.

The role focuses on architecture standards, incident response, and long-term planning to support expanding AI workloads and

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).
• Design 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
• 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
• High-performance networking (RoCE, PFC, ECN)
• 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

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Cisco Nexus/ACI

EVPN/VXLAN

SolarWinds

NetFlow

Wireshark

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Director of AI Network & Data Center Engineering to lead strategy, design, and delivery of our high-performance network and GPU-enabled data center environments. You will guide a team of engineers, collaborate with cloud, platform, and cybersecurity leaders, and drive automation and secure, scalable solutions across enterprise infrastructure.

The role focuses on architecture standards, incident response, and long-term planning to support expanding AI workloads and