Senior Observability Platform Engineering Lead

CVS Health; Town of Florida (NY); Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Paid time off

Retirement options

Job summary

CVS Health seeks a Senior Manager of Observability Data Platform Engineering to lead the strategy, design, and operations of a scalable observability platform across Operations, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, and SRE teams. You will drive performance, reliability, and cost efficiency while guiding architecture, governance, and vendor partnerships.

You will mentor multiple engineering teams, define roadmaps with cross-functional stakeholders, and champion adoption of modern telemetry and data

Qualifications

• 7+ years supporting enterprise-scale data, platform, observability, or cloud engineering.
• 5+ years of leadership building high-performing teams.
• 5+ years operating large-scale cloud/hybrid platforms with reliability and incident management.
• 3+ years leading complex, enterprise-wide engineering initiatives across multiple stakeholder groups.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering, operations, and continuous evolution of the enterprise Observability Data Platform.
• Own platform reliability, scalability, availability, performance, and operational health.
• Oversee telemetry ingestion, observability data services, and platform capabilities supporting enterprise monitoring and analytics.
• Define and execute the platform strategy and roadmap in partnership with Product, Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, and Engineering stakeholders.
• Drive automation, operational efficiency, performance optimization, capacity planning, and continuous service improvement.
• Establish engineering standards, governance processes, and security controls to ensure platform integrity, compliance, and lifecycle management.
• Champion platform adoption, stakeholder engagement, and user enablement across the enterprise.
• Lead, coach, and develop high-performing engineering teams while fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and operational excellence.
• Manage strategic vendor relationships and technology partnerships to support platform capabilities and business objectives.

Skills

Observability

Cloud platforms

Leadership

Platform reliability

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Splunk

Cribl

OpenTelemetry

Databricks

Azure

Kafka

Job description

CVS Health seeks a Senior Manager of Observability Data Platform Engineering to lead the strategy, design, and operations of a scalable observability platform across Operations, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, and SRE teams. You will drive performance, reliability, and cost efficiency while guiding architecture, governance, and vendor partnerships.

You will mentor multiple engineering teams, define roadmaps with cross-functional stakeholders, and champion adoption of modern telemetry and data