Remote Senior Cloud Architect — AWS Leader & Multicloud AI

CVS Health; Massachusetts; Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Principal Cloud Architect to lead cloud architecture across Aetna Technology, focusing on AWS as the primary platform with GCP/Azure by exception. This senior IC sets technical direction, defines reference architectures, and guides teams through secure, cost-aware multicloud design.

The role is remote from anywhere in the continental USA, reporting to Aetna Technology's architecture governance.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in technology with deep cloud architecture experience at scale.
• Expert-level AWS architecture; working proficiency in GCP and Azure for multicloud decisions.
• Ownership of landing zones, reference architectures, and paved-road patterns.
• Strong cloud security knowledge including zero-trust, identity, segmentation and blast-radius reduction.
• FinOps awareness and cost-aware architecture tied to dollar impact.
• Demonstrated influence and design authority as an IC.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud reference architectures and landing zones across AWS primary with GCP/Azure by exception.
• Define multicloud placement criteria and guardrails to guide workloads.
• Design and maintain the paved road with reusable patterns and guardrails for teams.
• Serve as escalation point for the hardest cloud design decisions with engineering teams.
• Embed security patterns and cost considerations into architectures and governance.

Skills

AWS architecture

Multicloud design

Cloud security

Zero-trust architecture

AI/ML infra

Infrastructure as code

Cost-aware design

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Principal Cloud Architect to lead cloud architecture across Aetna Technology, focusing on AWS as the primary platform with GCP/Azure by exception. This senior IC sets technical direction, defines reference architectures, and guides teams through secure, cost-aware multicloud design.

The role is remote from anywhere in the continental USA, reporting to Aetna Technology's architecture governance.