Senior Data Platform Engineer - Performance & Automation

CVS Health Corporation; Kentucky; Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off

Retirement savings options

Wellness programs

Job summary

CVS Health Corporation is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for the Data & Performance Enablement team. You will design and implement data platforms and lead features for database, messaging, and data warehouse platforms, mentoring engineers and shaping the technical roadmap.

You will work with on-call support, contribute to automation, and drive scalable data models while aligning with security and reliability goals across AWS/Azure environments.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of relevant engineering experience.
• Experience with Kafka and Redis messaging systems.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and scripting (Bash/Python).
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (Azure or AWS).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain key components of our data platform automation for provisioning, backups, and user management.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex performance and reliability issues in our data systems.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve data streaming services, security, scalability, and automation.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support the team's critical services.
• Mentor junior engineers on database administration, query optimization, and DBRE principles.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap by researching new data technologies and proposing innovative solutions.

Skills

Experience (5+ years)

Product mindset

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

Kafka

Redis

Terraform / IaC

Bash

Python

Azure

AWS

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Job description

CVS Health Corporation is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for the Data & Performance Enablement team. You will design and implement data platforms and lead features for database, messaging, and data warehouse platforms, mentoring engineers and shaping the technical roadmap.

You will work with on-call support, contribute to automation, and drive scalable data models while aligning with security and reliability goals across AWS/Azure environments.