Staff Kubernetes Engineer, CVS Health

CVS Health

Location:
United States, Work At Home

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

106605.00 - 260590.00 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. This Staff Kubernetes Engineer will help CVS Health achieve a stable environment for container microservices while maintaining a cloud-agnostic solution. Responsibilities include designing efficient solutions, contributing to architecture discussions, mentoring junior developers, and fostering a culture of learning.

Job Responsibility:

Leverages expertise to design and implement efficient and scalable solutions that meet business requirements and quality standards
Contributes to solution design and architecture discussions, collaborating with architects and senior engineers
Provides input on technical feasibility, performance optimization, and scalability considerations to ensure that the overall solution meets the desired objectives
Participates in code reviews and ensures adherence to coding standards, best practices, and quality guidelines
Communicates and coordinates with team members to ensure alignment, provide technical insights, and contribute to decision-making processes
Contributes to the adoption of best practices, new technologies, and tools to enhance productivity, efficiency, and code quality
Participates in knowledge sharing activities, such as code reviews, tech talks, and workshops, to foster a culture of learning and collaboration within the team
Works with other developers and team members to implement complex features, enhance existing functionality, and ensure the delivery of high-quality code
Provides guidance and mentorship to junior developers, helping them improve their technical skills and grow professionally

Requirements:

7+ years of experience with building secure and reliable kubernetes platform from dev to production
5+ years experience with CNCF packages like Istio, Kiali, Opa, Ingress gateway as well as deploying, managing, upgrading at scale on large volumes of kubernetes cluster and using these packages efficiently
3+ years of experience running production workloads on GKE or other similar platforms like AKS, EKS, RKE or openshift having deep understanding of helm charts
3+ years of experience managing Argocd, Github Actions or any other CI/CD tool
2+ years of experience with Terraform and other IAC tools
2+ years of experience managing secrets with hashicorp vault or similar products to manage code securely

Nice to have:

Strong understanding of application and platform developer needs and experiences
Experience developing micro services, with a heavy interest in helping other engineers achieve the same
Experience working in an environment using Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe agile frameworks
Experience provisioning cloud infrastructure kubernetes mutation and validation webhooks
Experience creating pipelines and automation to deploy dockerized applications onto Kubernetes clusters using Gitops
Experiencing doing POC on CNCF open source projects
Excitement learning from and helping mentor other members of the team as well as across the organization
Team player with excellent verbal and written communication skills

What we offer:

Affordable medical plan options
401(k) plan including matching company contributions
Employee stock purchase plan
No-cost programs including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation, weight management programs, confidential counseling, and 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:
May 06, 2025

Expiration:
July 04, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Remote work

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