Senior Platform Engineer, Data & Performance Enablement

CVS Health is focused on building a world of health around every individual, emphasizing a connected and compassionate health experience. As a Senior Platform Engineer on the Data & Performance Enablement team, you will design and implement platforms for distributed event streaming technologies, mentor engineers, and contribute to the technical roadmap while ensuring high-performance data-intensive applications.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain key components of our data platform automation for provisioning, backups, and user management
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex performance and reliability issues in our data systems, often serving as an escalation point for the team
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve data streaming services, security, scalability, and automation
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support the team's critical services
• Mentor junior engineers on the team, providing guidance on database administration, query optimization, and DBRE principles
• Contribute to the technical roadmap by researching new data technologies and proposing innovative solutions

Requirements:

• 5 years of applicable experience
• Strong experience with messaging platforms (Kafka/Redis)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Proficient in at least one scripting language (e.g., Bash, Python)
• Solid experience with at least one major cloud provider (Azure or AWS preferred) and their managed offerings
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• A product mindset and empathy for developer customers, with experience helping teams design scalable data models
• A pragmatic approach to problem-solving and a proven ability to deliver complex technical projects
• Experience with GitHub Actions or similar pipeline technologies