Senior Observability Platform Engineer

Koitecc Solutions; Kansas; On-site; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health Enterprise Technology is hiring a Lead Cloud Engineer for the Observability Platform. You will architect and scale telemetry pipelines (logs, metrics, traces) across multiple clouds, driving OpenTelemetry adoption and enterprise-wide instrumentation patterns.

The role emphasizes collaboration with SRE, platform, and cloud teams, mentoring engineers, and delivering reliable, cost-efficient platform services in a Fortune 6 environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Software Engineering experience.
• 5+ years with observability practices (SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, alerting, incidents).
• 5+ years building production-grade backend services in Go and/or Java.
• 5+ years implementing and operating OpenTelemetry.
• 5+ years with cloud-native and containerized platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD).
• 5+ years with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• 3+ years designing and scaling distributed data pipelines.
• 3+ years with Helmcharts, Kustomize, etc.
• 3+ years with Grafana OSS or similar observability backends.
• 3+ years with IaC tools (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• 3+ years with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core observability platform services using Go, Python, Java (Spring Boot).
• Lead enterprise-wide adoption of OpenTelemetry and related tooling.
• Architect and scale high-throughput telemetry pipelines (logs, metrics, traces).
• Develop self-service observability capabilities for onboarding and troubleshooting.
• Implement end-to-end monitoring with SLOs, health checks, and alerting.
• Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Cloud teams to set reliability standards.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

OpenTelemetry

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

Argo CD

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Helmcharts

Kustomize

Grafana

PostgreSQL

Job description

CVS Health Enterprise Technology is hiring a Lead Cloud Engineer for the Observability Platform. You will architect and scale telemetry pipelines (logs, metrics, traces) across multiple clouds, driving OpenTelemetry adoption and enterprise-wide instrumentation patterns.

The role emphasizes collaboration with SRE, platform, and cloud teams, mentoring engineers, and delivering reliable, cost-efficient platform services in a Fortune 6 environment.