Lead Cloud Engineer, Observability Platform

CVS Health; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health Enterprise Technology is hiring a Lead Cloud Engineer for the Observability Platform to architect and scale pipelines across multiple clouds and datacenters. You will mentor teams, shape platform direction, and ensure secure, reliable telemetry across thousands of workloads.

You will collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Cloud teams, champion OpenTelemetry, and drive on-call incident reviews while delivering self-service observability for developers.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering.
• 5+ years observability practices including SLIs/SLOs and incident management.
• 5+ years building production-grade backend services in Go and/or Java.
• 3+ years designing and scaling distributed data pipelines and with IaC tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core observability platform services using Go, Python, Java (Spring Boot).
• Lead enterprise-wide adoption of OpenTelemetry and related instrumentation patterns.
• Architect and scale high-throughput telemetry pipelines (logs, metrics, traces).
• Develop self-service observability capabilities for onboarding and troubleshooting.
• Implement end-to-end monitoring, SLOs, health checks, and alerting.
• Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Cloud teams to set reliability standards.
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident mitigation and post-incident reviews.
• Automate workflows via CI/CD enhancements and platform automation.
• Ensure secure telemetry pipelines with mTLS and secrets management.

Skills

Software Engineering

Observability

Go

Java

Cloud Platforms

OpenTelemetry

SRE Collaboration

Incident Management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Grafana

Terraform

CloudFormation

Prometheus

Job description

CVS Health Enterprise Technology is hiring a Lead Cloud Engineer for the Observability Platform to architect and scale pipelines across multiple clouds and datacenters. You will mentor teams, shape platform direction, and ensure secure, reliable telemetry across thousands of workloads.

You will collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Cloud teams, champion OpenTelemetry, and drive on-call incident reviews while delivering self-service observability for developers.