Senior Database Engineer, CVS Health

CVS Health

Location:
United States, Cumberland

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

101970.00 - 203940.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

Senior Database Engineer role at CVS Health involving developing tools for self-service capabilities, collaborating with engineering teams, and enhancing database infrastructure. The position focuses on designing and implementing scalable and reliable database solutions including high availability solutions and backup and recovery strategies.

Job Responsibility:

Develop and implement automation scripts, tools, and workflows to streamline database provisioning, configuration, patching and upgrades, maintenance, and monitoring
Collaborate with Enterprise Security team to implement and maintain security measures, access controls, and compliance standards to protect sensitive data
Effectively communicate technical ideas and produce technical proposals, best practices, design specs, architecture diagrams, and presentations
Participate in L3/L4 level triage activities, Incident response calls and handle on-call escalations
Train and Mentor other database engineers
Write code to capture database performance and create tools and dashboards to provide actionable insight into that data
Implement performance enhancements for database systems
Conduct Proof of Concept/Technology on emerging and new technologies
Create product roadmaps

Requirements:

5+ years of experience in areas of database design and automation
5+ years of progressive experience in databases engineering and support
5+ years of experience with Oracle RDBMS technologies
5+ Years of experience with Performance Tuning
3+ years of experience with data replication technologies like Golden Gate/STRIIM
3+ Years of experience developing with Shell scripts, python scripts, Jenkins, GitHub Actions CI/CD Pipelines
3+ experience in deploying cloud native databases in GCP or Azure cloud
3+ experience with deploying and managing Elastic Clusters on Kubernetes
3+ years of experience writing SQL queries for root cause analysis and tuning
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or similar degree

Nice to have:

Experience working as a Database Engineer in large scale past paced environment, high volume, online transaction processing (OLTP) systems
Healthcare experience
Experience with deployment automation/configuration management tools like Java, Typescript, GitHub Actions, Temporal Chef, Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform
Experience in deploying cloud native databases in GCP, AWS or Azure cloud
Experience with non-relation databases such as MongoDB and Cosmos DB
Knowledge in one more DB technologies like MySQL, PostgreSQL
Certifications in Cloud and Database Technologies
Strong problem-solving skills and have a results-oriented attitude
Ability to handle multiple projects and tasks independently
Very strong communication skills both verbal and written
Experience with In-Memory databases such as Redis

What we offer:

Affordable medical plan options
401(k) plan with matching company contributions
Employee stock purchase plan
No-cost wellness screenings
Tobacco cessation programs
Weight management programs
Confidential counseling
Financial coaching
Paid time off
Flexible work schedules
Family leave
Dependent care resources
Colleague assistance programs
Tuition assistance
Retiree medical access

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
September 14, 2025

Expiration:
November 07, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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