Senior Observability Platform Engineer - Scale & Telemetry

Koitecc Solutions; South Carolina; 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 that process billions of logs, metrics, and traces daily, using Go, Python, and Java.

You will partner with SRE, Cloud, CI/CD, and Security teams to shape platform strategy, drive OpenTelemetry adoption, ensure secure, reliable, and cost‑efficient observability at scale, and mentor engineers across the organization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering
• 3+ years with observability practices including SLIs/SLOs/SLAs
• 3+ years building production backend services in Go and/or Java
• 3+ years implementing and operating OpenTelemetry
• 3+ years with cloud-native/containerized 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
• 2+ years with Grafana OSS or comparable observability backends
• 2+ years with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate core observability platform services.
• Design and build observability pipelines (logs, metrics, traces).
• Lead OpenTelemetry adoption including instrumentation patterns and collector/agent strategy.
• Ensure secure, reliable, and cost-efficient observability at scale.
• Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Cloud teams to establish reliability standards.

Skills

Go

Java

OpenTelemetry

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Logging/Observability

PostgreSQL/MySQL

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

Helmcharts

Kustomize

Grafana

Job description

CVS Health Enterprise Technology seeks a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large‑scale observability services that process billions of logs, metrics, and traces daily, using Go, Python, and Java.

You will partner with SRE, Cloud, CI/CD, and Security teams to shape platform strategy, drive OpenTelemetry adoption, ensure secure, reliable, and cost‑efficient observability at scale, and mentor engineers across the organization.