Principal Cloud Engineer, CVS Health

CVS Health

Location:
United States, Hartford, Connecticut

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

144200.00 - 288400.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care. As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

Job Responsibility:

Strategic Platform Design & Build
Drive the end-to-end designs for highly scalable, hybrid virtualization and container platforms (VMware vSphere, Kubernetes, OpenShift), ensuring alignment with business goals and operational requirements
Partner with other Distinguished Engineers, Architects, and leadership to shape the long-term infrastructure modernization roadmap, with specific milestones for container adoption and hybrid cloud integrations
Champion best practices for high-availability, performance, security, and cost optimization across virtualized and containerized workloads
Platform Development & Automation
Oversee the design and development of new container-native platforms from the ground up, setting the standard for automation and infrastructure-as-code in large, complex enterprises
Implement robust GitOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment strategies for seamless scaling of containerized and virtualized services
Foster an engineering culture that values platform reliability, developer productivity, and continuous operational improvement
Hybrid Infrastructure & Emerging Technologies
Provide thought leadership on how modern containerization and traditional virtualization create complementary infrastructure paradigms, including workload placement strategies, resource optimization, and migration patterns
Understand how to modernize legacy VMware workloads through containerization and Kubernetes adoption
Evaluate, recommend, and build emerging platform technologies (e.g., service mesh, serverless containers, edge orchestration) and guide their integration into the broader technology stack
Cross-Functional Leadership & Mentoring
Serve as a key technical resource, translating complex platform architectural decisions into clear business implications and cost-benefit analyses
Perform as technical leader and support platform engineers, SREs, and operational teams, elevating the organization's overall infrastructure proficiency
Cultivate a strong, collaborative culture across distributed teams, promoting open communication, knowledge sharing, and platform innovation
Enterprise Governance & Operations
Ensure adherence to enterprise security standards and compliance requirements, advocating secure-by-design principles at every stage of the platform lifecycle
Guide compliance with internal governance frameworks for identity and access management, network segmentation, and business continuity planning
Identify operational risks and propose mitigation strategies in alignment with corporate security, compliance, and SLA requirements

Requirements:

10+ years experience in large-scale enterprise virtualization and container environments
Experience in VMware vSphere Platform: vCenter Server, ESXi hypervisor, vSAN storage, NSX-T networking, vRealize Suite (Automation, Operations, Log Insight), and vSphere with Tanzu integration
Kubernetes Core Technologies: Container runtimes (containerd, CRI-O), CNI plugins (Calico, Cilium, Flannel), CSI storage drivers, and custom resource definitions (CRDs) with operators
OpenShift Platform: OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), OpenShift Virtualization, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management, OpenShift GitOps (ArgoCD), and OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton)
OpenShift Virtualization (CNV): KubeVirt integration, VM lifecycle management, live migration capabilities, virtctl CLI operations, DataVolumes and CDI (Containerized Data Importer), VM templates and golden images, SR-IOV and GPU passthrough, and hybrid workload orchestration mixing VMs and containers on the same platform
Container Orchestration: Multi-cluster management, cluster autoscaling, workload scheduling, resource quotas, and cross-cluster networking with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd)
Infrastructure Automation: Terraform/Terragrunt for infrastructure provisioning, Ansible for configuration management, Helm charts, and Kustomize for application deployment
CI/CD & GitOps: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Flux, and automated testing frameworks for infrastructure and application pipelines
Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, and VMware vRealize Operations for comprehensive platform monitoring
Storage & Networking: VMware vSAN, Kubernetes persistent volumes, software-defined networking (SDN), load balancers (HAProxy, NGINX), and ingress controllers
Security & Compliance: Pod Security Standards, NetworkPolicies, RBAC implementation, certificate management (cert-manager), and vulnerability scanning (Twistlock, Aqua Security)
Backup & Disaster Recovery: Velero for Kubernetes backups, VMware vSphere Replication, and cross-platform disaster recovery strategies
IaaS Platform Development: Ground-up design of Infrastructure-as-a-Service platforms including multi-tenant resource provisioning APIs, self-service portals with quota management, automated infrastructure lifecycle (provision/scale/terminate), chargeback and metering systems, resource scheduling algorithms, template catalogs and golden image management, network automation (VLAN/VXLAN provisioning), storage orchestration (block/file/object), identity federation (LDAP/AD/SAML integration), and comprehensive audit logging with compliance reporting

Nice to have:

Problem-solving mindset
Ability to design and build resilient hybrid platforms and deliver pragmatic infrastructure solutions
Leadership
Track record of driving cross-functional alignment in complex infrastructure initiatives

What we offer:

Affordable medical plan options
401(k) plan (including matching company contributions)
Employee stock purchase plan
No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching
Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
August 13, 2025

Expiration:
October 15, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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