Lead Cloud Engineer, Observability Platform at Scale

Koitecc Solutions; Arkansas; Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer for the Observability Platform to architect and scale data pipelines handling billions of logs, metrics, and traces across multi-cloud and data center environments. You will collaborate with SRE and application teams to drive platform strategy and reliability.

You will apply OpenTelemetry, Go and Java, and cloud-native tooling to deliver high-throughput telemetry, secure pipelines, and self-service observability while mentoring engineers and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years in observability practices (SLIs/SLOs/SLAs).
• 5+ years building production-grade backend services in Go and/or Java.
• 5+ years implementing and operating OpenTelemetry.
• 5+ years with cloud-native platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD).
• 3+ years designing and scaling distributed data pipelines.
• 3+ years with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• 3+ years with PostgreSQL/MySQL.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core observability platform services.
• Lead enterprise-wide adoption of OpenTelemetry and related components.
• Architect and scale high-throughput telemetry pipelines (logs, metrics, traces).
• Develop self-service observability features for onboarding and troubleshooting.
• Implement end-to-end monitoring of the platform with SLOs and health checks.
• Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Cloud teams to establish reliability standards.
• Mentor engineers and participate in architectural reviews.
• Ensure secure telemetry pipelines and cost-efficient operations.

Skills

Observability practices

Go/Java backend

OpenTelemetry

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation)

Relational databases

Data pipelines

Monitoring/SLIs-SLOs

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Grafana

Terraform

CloudFormation

Prometheus

Helmcharts

Kustomize

OpenTelemetry tooling

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer for the Observability Platform to architect and scale data pipelines handling billions of logs, metrics, and traces across multi-cloud and data center environments. You will collaborate with SRE and application teams to drive platform strategy and reliability.

You will apply OpenTelemetry, Go and Java, and cloud-native tooling to deliver high-throughput telemetry, secure pipelines, and self-service observability while mentoring engineers and