Senior Platform Engineering & DevOps Lead

Careerwebsite; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

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.