Senior Cloud Observability & Hybrid-Cloud Architect

Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement; Georgia; Hybrid; USD 144,200 - 288,400; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Principal Architect to own observability and hybrid cloud architecture across on-prem and cloud workloads, including OpenTelemetry-first instrumentation and Grafana-backed pipelines.

Lead standards, reference architectures, and telemetry patterns while collaborating with Enterprise Architecture to drive FinOps, security, and HIPAA considerations. Remote work available within continental USA.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in infrastructure or SRE leadership.
• 8+ years in observability or cloud architecture at a large enterprise.
• Deep experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP networking and IAM.
• 5+ years Kubernetes in production (OpenShift/EKS/AKS/GKE).
• 5+ years OpenTelemetry and instrumentation pipelines.
• 5+ years with Grafana/Mimir/Loki/Tempo or similar tools.
• Strong ability to define SLOs/SLIs and alerting at org level.
• Proven track record writing architecture standards adopted across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise observability reference architecture for metrics, logs, traces, and events.
• Drive OpenTelemetry-first instrumentation strategy and pipelines.
• Build telemetry pipelines on Grafana Mimir, Loki, Tempo with multi-tenant configs.
• Define reliability metrics, SLOs/SLIs, and alerting frameworks across lines of business.
• Integrate observability with incident management (ServiceNow ITOM, xMatters).
• Develop AI/ML value in observability such as anomaly detection and smarter alerting.

Skills

Infrastructure experience

Cloud architecture

SRE / Platform engineering

Kubernetes production

OpenTelemetry

Observability platforms

SLOs/SLIs

Architecture standards

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Grafana Mimir/Loki/Tempo

Datadog

Splunk

Dynatrace

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Principal Architect to own observability and hybrid cloud architecture across on-prem and cloud workloads, including OpenTelemetry-first instrumentation and Grafana-backed pipelines.

Lead standards, reference architectures, and telemetry patterns while collaborating with Enterprise Architecture to drive FinOps, security, and HIPAA considerations. Remote work available within continental USA.