Lead Cloud Engineer, Observability Platform

CVS Health; Georgia; Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer for the Observability Platform to design and scale high-throughput telemetry pipelines across multi-cloud environments. You will work with Go, Java, and Python, mentor engineers, and drive OpenTelemetry adoption while ensuring security and reliability in a Fortune 6 company.

You will partner with SRE, Platform, and Cloud teams to set reliability standards, build self-service observability, and deliver platform improvements that reduce toil and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering.
• 5+ years with observability practices including SLIs/SLOs/SLAs and incident management.
• 5+ years building production-grade backend services in Go and/or Java.
• 5+ years implementing and operating OpenTelemetry.
• 5+ years with cloud-native/containerized platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD).
• 5+ years working with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• 3+ years designing and scaling distributed, high-volume data pipelines.
• 3+ years with Helmcharts, Kustomize, etc.
• 3+ years with Grafana OSS or comparable observability backends.
• 3+ years with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• 3+ years with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL).

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 to simplify onboarding and troubleshooting.
• Implement end-to-end monitoring of the observability platform with SLOs and health checks.
• Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Cloud teams to set reliability standards and incident response.
• Lead on-call rotations, root-cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Automate workflows via tooling, CI/CD enhancements, and platform automation.
• Ensure secure telemetry pipelines with mTLS and secrets management.
• Produce high-quality technical documentation and standards.
• Gather requirements, influence roadmap, and deliver platform improvements.
• Provide technical leadership through mentoring and cross-team collaboration.

Skills

Go

Java

OpenTelemetry

Distributed systems

Public cloud

SRE practices

CI/CD

Microservices

Telemetry pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Helm

Kustomize

Terraform

CloudFormation

Grafana

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer for the Observability Platform to design and scale high-throughput telemetry pipelines across multi-cloud environments. You will work with Go, Java, and Python, mentor engineers, and drive OpenTelemetry adoption while ensuring security and reliability in a Fortune 6 company.

You will partner with SRE, Platform, and Cloud teams to set reliability standards, build self-service observability, and deliver platform improvements that reduce toil and