Senior Platform Engineering Leader - DevOps

CVS Health Corporation; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 284,000; Full time

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.