Senior Director: AI Network & Data Center Engineering

CVS Health; Tallahassee (FL); On-site; USD 144,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Retirement savings options

Wellness programs

Job summary

CVS Health seeks a Lead Director, AI Network & Data Center Engineering to define strategy and deliver high‑performance data center and cloud networking for enterprise apps and AI workloads. You will lead a team of network and data center engineers, partnering with cloud, platform, and cybersecurity leaders to drive automation and scalable, secure networks.

Responsibilities include enforcing architecture standards, guiding vendors, and shaping roadmaps to support growth, AI demand, and digital

Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience in network and/or data center engineering.
• 5+ years' experience in a strategic leadership position with people management.
• 5+ years' experience in large scale enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and enforce network architecture standards, security controls, and compliance policies
• Establish best practices for configuration, deployment, and operations
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams (platform, cloud, security, infrastructure) to deliver integrated, secure and scalable solutions
• Engage vendors on solution architectures, design, contracts, and delivery
• Design and implement: data center fabrics (leaf‑spine, Clos, EVPN/VXLAN) and AI/GPU‑optimized networking
• Optimize performance for GPU workloads (RDMA, RoCE, ECN, PFC) and multi‑cloud architectures
• Oversee 24/7 network operations across cloud and data centers
• Lead incident response and ensure high availability, resiliency and scalability
• Build and mentor high‑performing engineering teams
• Advance networking capabilities for AI/ML infrastructure and GPU clusters
• Own network architecture strategy and roadmap

Skills

Strategic leadership

Network architecture

Security controls

Vendor management

Data center engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Cisco Nexus/ACI

SolarWinds

Wireshark

Infrastructure as Code

SDN

Job description

CVS Health seeks a Lead Director, AI Network & Data Center Engineering to define strategy and deliver high‑performance data center and cloud networking for enterprise apps and AI workloads. You will lead a team of network and data center engineers, partnering with cloud, platform, and cybersecurity leaders to drive automation and scalable, secure networks.

Responsibilities include enforcing architecture standards, guiding vendors, and shaping roadmaps to support growth, AI demand, and digital