Senior Observability Platform Engineer (Scale & Automation)

Koitecc Solutions; Kansas; On-site; USD 83,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health Enterprise Technology seeks a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design and operate high‑throughput telemetry pipelines and backend services using Go, Python, and Java. You will drive OpenTelemetry adoption and collaborate across SRE, Cloud, CI/CD, and security teams to enable a secure, cost‑efficient observability stack.

You will provide senior technical leadership, mentor engineers, and help deliver a self‑service observability ecosystem that accelerates engineering

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 3+ years of observability practices (SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, alerting, incident management).
• 3+ years building production-grade backends in Go and/or Java.
• 3+ years implementing and operating OpenTelemetry (OTLP, instrumentation).
• 3+ years with cloud-native platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD).
• 3+ years with public clouds (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• 2+ years designing and scaling distributed data pipelines.
• 2+ years with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• 2+ years with Helmcharts, Kustomize, etc.
• 2+ years with Grafana OSS or similar observability backends.
• 2+ years with PostgreSQL or MySQL.

Responsibilities

• Develop custom software to drive the observability platform using Java Spring Boot, Python, Go.
• Design, build, and operate core observability platform services using Go, Python, Java (Spring Boot).
• Support and lead OpenTelemetry adoption across the enterprise.
• Scale high-throughput telemetry pipelines (logs, metrics, traces) for performance and cost efficiency.
• Create self-service observability capabilities for onboarding and troubleshooting.
• Define SLOs, health checks, and alerting for the observability platform.
• Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Cloud teams to set reliability standards.
• Lead on-call rotations, incident reviews, and root-cause analysis.
• Automate workflows via CI/CD enhancements and platform tooling.
• Ensure secure telemetry with mTLS and secrets management.

Skills

Software engineering

Observability practices

Backend development

OpenTelemetry

Communication

Incident response

On-call leadership

SRE collaboration

Cost optimization

Security awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Java Spring Boot

Python

Go

Docker

Kubernetes

Argo CD

OpenTelemetry tooling

Grafana

PostgreSQL/MySQL

Job description

CVS Health Enterprise Technology seeks a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design and operate high‑throughput telemetry pipelines and backend services using Go, Python, and Java. You will drive OpenTelemetry adoption and collaborate across SRE, Cloud, CI/CD, and security teams to enable a secure, cost‑efficient observability stack.

You will provide senior technical leadership, mentor engineers, and help deliver a self‑service observability ecosystem that accelerates engineering