Staff SRE: Observability & Reliability Platform Lead

CVS Health

Woonsocket (RI)

On-site

USD 118,000 - 261,000

Full time

5 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program
Equity awards
Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

CVS Health in Rhode Island is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - SRE to own programs that span observability, production readiness, incident management, and chaos engineering across thousands of stores and pharmacy locations. You will define standards, partner with domain owners, and drive adoption of OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and AI-assisted detection to reduce toil and improve reliability.

This role requires deep technical leadership, strong communication, and a track record of delivering

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of SRE, platform engineering, or production systems engineering with program ownership.
  • End-to-end ownership of at least one major SRE program at organizational scale.
  • LLM integration for operational use cases (alert summarization, runbook generation, incident triage).
  • Fleet-scale deployment reliability and drift detection experience.
  • Organizational change management at program scale.

Responsibilities

  • Architect observability platform strategy end-to-end.
  • Define organization-wide reliability signals and domain health scores.
  • Standardize SLI/SLOs across engineering domains with CUJ coverage.
  • Design AI-enabled detection pipeline and incident triage tooling.
  • Lead production readiness and chaos engineering programs.
  • Oversee change management gates and deployment policies.
  • Own on-call operating model and MTTR reduction program.

Skills

SRE
Platform engineering
Organizational change management
LLM integration
TIC (Technical Incident Commander)
Fleet-scale reliability
Financial literacy for SRE programs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Prometheus
Grafana
OpenTelemetry
Kafka
Terraform
Kubernetes

Job description

CVS Health in Rhode Island is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - SRE to own programs that span observability, production readiness, incident management, and chaos engineering across thousands of stores and pharmacy locations. You will define standards, partner with domain owners, and drive adoption of OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and AI-assisted detection to reduce toil and improve reliability.

This role requires deep technical leadership, strong communication, and a track record of delivering

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