Remote Senior Cloud Architect – AI & Cost-Aware Design

CVS Health Corporation; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental & Vision

Paid Time Off

Retirement Savings

Wellness Programs

Job summary

CVS Health Corporation’s Aetna Technology is seeking a Principal Cloud Architect to lead cloud architecture across AWS as the primary platform, with GCP/Azure support. This senior individual contributor role can be remote from anywhere in the continental USA and defines reference architectures, paved road patterns, and design standards to enable fast, secure workloads.

The ideal candidate has 12+ years in technology with deep AWS expertise, multicloud experience, zero-trust security, FinOps, and

Qualifications

• 12+ years in technology with cloud architecture experience at scale.
• Expert-level AWS architecture; working knowledge of GCP/Azure for multicloud placement.
• Ownership of landing zones, reference architectures, and paved-road patterns.
• Strong command of cloud security and zero-trust architecture.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud reference architectures and multicloud placement criteria.
• Design and maintain paved road standards and guardrails for teams.
• Serve as escalation point for hardest cloud design decisions across the portfolio.
• Embed zero-trust and cost governance in architecture decisions.
• Provide cloud architecture for AI/ML platform workloads.

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS expertise

GCP & Azure

Landing zones

Zero-trust security

FinOps

AI/ML platform infra

Influence without authority

IaC / automation

Healthcare / regulated industries

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

CVS Health Corporation’s Aetna Technology is seeking a Principal Cloud Architect to lead cloud architecture across AWS as the primary platform, with GCP/Azure support. This senior individual contributor role can be remote from anywhere in the continental USA and defines reference architectures, paved road patterns, and design standards to enable fast, secure workloads.

The ideal candidate has 12+ years in technology with deep AWS expertise, multicloud experience, zero-trust security, FinOps, and