Senior Observability Platform Engineer

Koitecc Solutions; Town of Texas (WI); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health Enterprise Technology seeks a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale observability services across on‑prem, hybrid, and public clouds. You will develop backend services in Go, Python, and Java, and lead OpenTelemetry adoption for standardized instrumentation and scalable pipelines.

You will shape platform strategy, collaborate with SRE, Cloud, CI/CD, and security teams, and deliver a self-service observability ecosystem that improves

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience.
• 3+ years of observability practices (SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, alerting, incident mgmt).
• 3+ years building production-grade backends in Go and/or Java.
• 3+ years implementing and operating OpenTelemetry (OTLP, conventions).
• 3+ years with cloud-native/container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD).
• 3+ years with public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• 2+ years designing/distributing high-volume data pipelines.
• 2+ years IaC tools (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• 2+ years with Helmcharts, Kustomize.
• 2+ years with Grafana OSS or equivalents (Loki, Tempo, Mimir).
• 2+ years with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL).

Responsibilities

• Develop custom software to drive the observability platform (Java Spring Boot, Python, Go).
• Design, build, and operate core observability services (Go, Python, Java).
• Lead OpenTelemetry adoption across the enterprise, libraries, instrumentation patterns.
• Design 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 alerts.
• Collaborate with SRE, Platform, Cloud teams to set reliability standards.
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident reviews.
• Automate operations via CI/CD enhancements and platform tooling.
• Ensure secure telemetry pipelines (mTLS, secrets management, zero-trust).
• Produce technical docs and best practices; influence roadmap.
• Mentor engineers and drive cross-team collaboration with principal engineers.

Skills

Software Engineering

Observability practices

Backend development (Go/Java)

OpenTelemetry

Cloud-native platforms

Public cloud

Distributed data pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Kubernetes tooling

Observability backends

Relational databases

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

Helmcharts

Kustomize

Grafana

Loki

Tempo

Mimir

Job description

CVS Health Enterprise Technology seeks a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale observability services across on‑prem, hybrid, and public clouds. You will develop backend services in Go, Python, and Java, and lead OpenTelemetry adoption for standardized instrumentation and scalable pipelines.

You will shape platform strategy, collaborate with SRE, Cloud, CI/CD, and security teams, and deliver a self-service observability ecosystem that improves