Senior Platform Engineering & DevOps Lead

Careerwebsite

Illinois

Hybrid

USD 118,000 - 284,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Manager, Platform Engineering / DevOps to lead and scale enterprise cloud platform delivery. You will own the platform roadmap, drive GCP-based capabilities, enforce standards, and ensure security/compliance across a complex enterprise environment.

You will mentor engineers (FTEs and contractors), coordinate multiple workstreams, and champion modern DevOps and SRE practices while guiding architecture decisions and stakeholder collaboration.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE
  • 4+ years in team leadership, management, or technical lead roles, leading mid-sized teams (5 to 10 engineers)
  • 3+ years with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) including GKE, IAM, networking, monitoring
  • 3+ years with Kubernetes and container-based systems
  • 3+ years with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows
  • 3+ years with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, KCC, Kustomize)
  • 4+ years of Agile/Scrum delivery and sprint execution
  • Incident management and operational support (SRE practices)
  • Cross-team coordination and stakeholder communication
  • 1+ years with AI-driven operations or automation frameworks
  • 3+ years designing, implementing, and troubleshooting cloud networking (VPCs, routing, load balancing, firewalls, DNS)
  • 3+ years in production/on-call rotations
  • 3+ years with SQL/Oracle/MongoDB/Cassandra/Cloud Spanner/Kafka
  • Certifications such as PMP, CSM, SAFe and GCP Professional Cloud Architect are a plus

Responsibilities

  • Own and execute the H100 platform engineering roadmap
  • Drive delivery of GCP-based platform capabilities (GKE, networking, IAM, CI/CD, observability)
  • Establish and enforce engineering standards, best practices, and ADR compliance
  • Ensure adherence to security, compliance, and governance requirements (SOC2, HIPAA)
  • Partner with client stakeholders and cross-functional teams
  • Provide clear status reporting, risk identification, and mitigation strategies
  • Coordinate dependencies across teams and delivery streams
  • Act as a technical and delivery point of contact for platform-related discussions
  • Oversee implementation of GCP landing zone components (resource hierarchy, IAM, networking)
  • Guide adoption of GitOps models and CI/CD frameworks (Config Sync, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions)
  • Monitor platform SLOs and operational metrics
  • Identify risks, capacity constraints, and improvement opportunities
  • Lead incident response and escalation management, including post-mortems
  • Ensure availability of runbooks, documentation, and operational procedures
  • Support SRE practices and production readiness models
  • Maintain platform reliability and operational stability
  • Lead a team of engineers (FTEs + contractors)
  • Provide guidance, mentorship, and performance direction
  • Support knowledge sharing and onboarding for contractor teams
  • Promote a culture of continuous improvement and accountability
  • Identify opportunities for automation and platform optimization
  • Support AI-driven operations tooling
  • Evaluate cloud security and DevOps tools
  • Encourage modern platform engineering practices
  • Drive sprint planning and Agile execution
  • Manage resource allocation and contractor utilization
  • Track SOW milestones and dependencies
  • Provide progress/risk/capacity reports

Skills

Ownership mindset
Stakeholder management
Leadership
Cloud-native platforms
DevOps practices
SRE principles

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GKE
Kubernetes
CI/CD
GitOps
ArgoCD
GitHub Actions
Config Sync
Terraform
KCC
Kustomize
IAM

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Manager, Platform Engineering / DevOps to lead and scale enterprise cloud platform delivery. You will own the platform roadmap, drive GCP-based capabilities, enforce standards, and ensure security/compliance across a complex enterprise environment.

You will mentor engineers (FTEs and contractors), coordinate multiple workstreams, and champion modern DevOps and SRE practices while guiding architecture decisions and stakeholder collaboration.

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