Lead Cloud Engineer, Observability Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Wellness programs

Job summary

CVS Health Enterprise Technology is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer to shape the Observability Platform for software engineers at Fortune 6 scale. You will design and scale data pipelines for logs, metrics, and traces across multiple clouds and datacenters.

You will mentor teammates, collaborate with SRE and platform teams, and drive secure, efficient telemetry solutions using OpenTelemetry and best-practice patterns.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core observability platform services using Go, Python, Java (Spring Boot).
• Lead enterprise-wide adoption of OpenTelemetry, including client libraries and instrumentation patterns.
• Architect and scale high-throughput telemetry pipelines (logs, metrics, traces) with a focus on performance and reliability.
• Develop self-service observability capabilities that simplify onboarding for application teams.
• Implement end-to-end monitoring of the platform, defining SLOs, health checks, and alerting.
• Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Cloud teams to establish reliability standards and incident practices.
• Mentor engineers and provide architectural guidance across teams.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

OpenTelemetry

Cloud-native

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Security practices

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry tooling

Job description

CVS Health Enterprise Technology is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer to shape the Observability Platform for software engineers at Fortune 6 scale. You will design and scale data pipelines for logs, metrics, and traces across multiple clouds and datacenters.

You will mentor teammates, collaborate with SRE and platform teams, and drive secure, efficient telemetry solutions using OpenTelemetry and best-practice patterns.