Senior Observability Platform Engineer: Scale & Self‑Service

Koitecc Solutions; Tennessee; Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Paid time off

Retirement options

Job summary

CVS Health Enterprise Technology seeks a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale observability services handling logs, metrics and traces. You will lead OpenTelemetry adoption and guide platform strategy across multi-cloud environments.

You will partner with SRE, Cloud and CI/CD teams to ensure reliable, secure, and cost-efficient observability, delivering a self-service ecosystem that accelerates engineering productivity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering.
• 3+ years observability practices including SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, alerting and incident management.
• 3+ years building production-grade backend services in Go and/or Java.
• 3+ years implementing and operating OpenTelemetry including OTLP and instrumentation patterns.
• 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 Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• 2+ years with Helm charts, Kustomize, etc.
• 2+ years with Grafana or comparable observability backends.
• 2+ years with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL).

Responsibilities

• Develop custom software to drive the observability platform using Java, Python, Go.
• Design, build, and operate core observability services.
• Support enterprise-wide adoption of OpenTelemetry and instrumentation patterns.
• Design and scale high throughput telemetry pipelines with focus on performance and cost.
• Develop self-service observability capabilities for onboarding and troubleshooting.
• Implement end-to-end monitoring of the observability platform, including SLOs and health checks.
• Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Cloud teams to set reliability standards and incident practices.
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead root-cause analyses and post-incident reviews.
• Automate workflows via CI/CD enhancements and platform automation.
• Ensure secure telemetry pipelines with mTLS and secret management.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Terraform

CloudFormation

Grafana

PostgreSQL

MySQL

CI/CD

Docker

Spring Boot

Argo CD

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Spring Boot

OpenTelemetry Collector

Grafana OSS

Job description

CVS Health Enterprise Technology seeks a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale observability services handling logs, metrics and traces. You will lead OpenTelemetry adoption and guide platform strategy across multi-cloud environments.

You will partner with SRE, Cloud and CI/CD teams to ensure reliable, secure, and cost-efficient observability, delivering a self-service ecosystem that accelerates engineering productivity.