Lead Cloud Engineer, Observability Platform

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

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer to shape the Observability Platform, architecting and scaling telemetry pipelines across multiple clouds and datacenters. You will guide integrations of logs, metrics, and traces, partnering with SRE and application teams to raise reliability and performance while ensuring cost efficiency.

The role emphasizes open standards, OSS tools, and internal software, with mentorship of engineers and influence on platform direction.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Software Engineering experience.
• 5+ years with observability practices (SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, alerting, incident management).
• 5+ years building production-grade backend services (Go/Java).
• 5+ years implementing and operating OpenTelemetry (OTLP, semantic conventions).
• 5+ years with cloud-native and containerized platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD).
• 5+ years with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• 3+ years designing and scaling distributed data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core observability platform services using Go, Python, Java (Spring Boot).
• Lead enterprise-wide adoption of OpenTelemetry and related 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 with SLOs and alerting.
• Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Cloud teams to set reliability standards.

Skills

Observability practices

OpenTelemetry

Go

Java

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

SRE collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Argo CD

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer to shape the Observability Platform, architecting and scaling telemetry pipelines across multiple clouds and datacenters. You will guide integrations of logs, metrics, and traces, partnering with SRE and application teams to raise reliability and performance while ensuring cost efficiency.

The role emphasizes open standards, OSS tools, and internal software, with mentorship of engineers and influence on platform direction.