Senior Cloud & Data Platform Engineer — GCP & AI

CVS Health; Indiana; Hybrid; USD 54,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Manager, Cloud & Data Platform Engineer to own and scale the Retail Resource Center's Google Cloud stack, including Cloud Run, GKE, Redis, and BigQuery. You will design pipelines, ensure data quality, and implement governance while advancing AI-driven automation across the platform.

You will collaborate with analysts, product owners, and security teams to deliver reliable datasets, dashboards, and trusted analytics, in a fast-paced, on-site environment at CVS Health.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, site reliability, cloud, platform, or data engineering.
• Hands-on production experience with Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, GKE, Redis, BigQuery) and building or supporting production data pipelines.
• Working knowledge of Google Cloud services, including Cloud Run, GKE, Redis, BigQuery, and IAM.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language (e.g., Python) and strong SQL skills.
• Experience leveraging AI tools to support development and automation.
• Experience designing and operating data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows, including orchestration, data modeling, and data quality practices.
• Strong problem solving, troubleshooting, and decision making skills.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Owns the application and data technology stack in Google Cloud, including architecture, availability, performance, and lifecycle management of Cloud Run services, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters, Redis databases, BigQuery datasets, and supporting services.
• Manages code deployment and release processes. Designs, builds, and maintains CI/CD pipelines for application and data workloads.
• Oversees containerization and deployment practices, including configuration management and container image lifecycle management.
• Designs, builds, and maintains batch and streaming data pipelines that ingest data into BigQuery.
• Develops and manages the analytics data layer in BigQuery, including dataset design, and SQL-based transformations that produce data models for reporting and analysis.
• Implements data quality checks, schema management, lineage, and pipeline observability.
• Defines and monitors data freshness and reliability targets, and troubleshoots failed or delayed data loads.
• Applies data governance and security controls, including dataset- and column-level access, handling of sensitive data, and retention policies in line with company privacy and compliance standards.
• Partners with analysts, product owners, and business stakeholders to translate reporting needs into reliable datasets and dashboards and supports self-service access to trusted data.
• Defines and manages infrastructure as code with version-controlled, peer-reviewed changes.
• Automates provisioning, environment setup, and routine operational tasks to improve efficiency and consistency across development, staging, and production.
• Implements monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting for applications, infrastructure, and data pipelines.
• Leads incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews for production issues.
• Manages IAM roles, service accounts, network configuration, secrets, and vulnerability scanning in line with company security and compliance standards.
• Plans for capacity, autoscaling, backup, and disaster recovery for applications and data stores to ensure the platform can scale with business needs.
• Collaborates with software engineering, security, and operations teams to understand requirements, answer cloud architecture and deployment questions, and develop solutions to technical challenges.
• Leverages AI to accelerate development and automation across application, infrastructure, and workloads, improving delivery speed and consistency.
• Develops AI agents to automate workflows and operational tasks, accelerating delivery and reducing manual effort.
• Evaluates new Google Cloud services, tools, and practices, and contributes technical input to roadmap and strategic planning sessions.
• Seeks opportunities to enhance their knowledge and skills through professional development, training, and certifications, and explores new tools and techniques to improve platform reliability and engineering efficiency.

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Manager, Cloud & Data Platform Engineer to own and scale the Retail Resource Center's Google Cloud stack, including Cloud Run, GKE, Redis, and BigQuery. You will design pipelines, ensure data quality, and implement governance while advancing AI-driven automation across the platform.

You will collaborate with analysts, product owners, and security teams to deliver reliable datasets, dashboards, and trusted analytics, in a fast-paced, on-site environment at CVS Health.