Senior Observability Platform Engineer — Scale & Impact

Koitecc Solutions; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; 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 using Go, Python, and Java. You will drive OpenTelemetry adoption, ensure secure, cost-efficient pipelines, and partner with SRE, Cloud, CI/CD, and Infra teams to raise platform reliability and developer experience.

You will craft high-performance telemetry pipelines, mentor engineers, and help shape the platform strategy for a Fortune-6 scale

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate core observability platform services.
• Lead OpenTelemetry adoption across the enterprise.
• Design high-throughput telemetry pipelines for logs, metrics, traces.
• Mentor engineers and influence platform standards.
• Collaborate with SRE, Cloud, CI/CD, Infra, Security teams.
• Ensure secure, cost-efficient observability at scale.
• Provide documentation and cross-team technical leadership.
• participate in on-call rotations and incident reviews.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

OpenTelemetry

Cloud-native

Kubernetes

CI/CD

AWS/GCP/Azure

Databases

Grafana

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Java Spring Boot

Terraform

CloudFormation

Argo CD

Docker

Kustomize

Helm

Grafana OSS

Loki

Tempo

Job description

CVS Health Enterprise Technology seeks a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale observability services using Go, Python, and Java. You will drive OpenTelemetry adoption, ensure secure, cost-efficient pipelines, and partner with SRE, Cloud, CI/CD, and Infra teams to raise platform reliability and developer experience.

You will craft high-performance telemetry pipelines, mentor engineers, and help shape the platform strategy for a Fortune-6 scale