Senior Platform Engineering Leader - DevOps

CVS Health Corporation

New Jersey

Hybrid

USD 118,000 - 284,000

Full time

4 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage
Paid time off
Retirement savings options
Wellness programs

Job summary

CVS Health seeks a Senior Manager, Platform Engineering / DevOps to lead a team delivering enterprise-scale cloud platforms. You will own roadmaps, drive GCP-based capabilities, implement standards, and ensure security and compliance across multi-stakeholder programs.

You will collaborate with security, networking, and applications teams, report risks and progress, and mentor engineers while advancing automation and modern platform engineering practices.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE.
  • 4+ years of experience in team leadership, management, or technical lead roles, leading mid-sized teams (5 to 10 engineers).
  • 3+ years of experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) including GKE, IAM, networking, monitoring.
  • 3+ years of experience with Kubernetes and container-based systems.
  • 3+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
  • 3+ years of experience with cloud networking design (VPCs, routing, load balancing, firewalls, DNS).
  • 4+ years of experience with Agile/Scrum delivery and sprint execution.
  • 1+ years of experience with AI-driven operations or automation frameworks.
  • 3+ years of experience with databases (SQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra, Cloud Spanner, or Kafka).

Responsibilities

  • Own and execute the H100 platform engineering roadmap, aligned to enterprise priorities and program milestones.
  • 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 (security, networking, applications).
  • 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 (uptime, MTTR, deployment frequency).
  • 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.

Skills

DevOps
Platform engineering
SRE
Cloud-native platforms
GCP
Kubernetes
CI/CD
GitOps
Terraform
IaC
Agile/Scrum
Incident management
Cross-team coordination
AI-driven operations

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering

Tools

GKE
IAM
Networking
CI/CD
observability
ArgoCD
GitHub Actions
Terraform
KCC
Kustomize

Job description

CVS Health seeks a Senior Manager, Platform Engineering / DevOps to lead a team delivering enterprise-scale cloud platforms. You will own roadmaps, drive GCP-based capabilities, implement standards, and ensure security and compliance across multi-stakeholder programs.

You will collaborate with security, networking, and applications teams, report risks and progress, and mentor engineers while advancing automation and modern platform engineering practices.

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