AVP, Platform Security

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🕒 September 4

🌵 Arizona – Remote

🌵 Arizona – Remote

💵 $185.4k - $375.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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CVS Health

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1963

🏥 Healthcare

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🛒 Retail

Healthcare • Healthcare Insurance • Retail

CVS Health is a leading American healthcare company dedicated to improving health access and affordability. The company focuses on a comprehensive approach that includes health services, health insurance, and pharmacy benefits management. Through its subsidiaries, such as Aetna and CVS Caremark, CVS Health offers a range of services that facilitate wellness, condition management, and affordable prescription drug coverage. CVS Health operates neighborhood pharmacies, provides mail-order pharmacy services, and manages specialty medication programs, aiming to make healthcare convenient and accessible for everyone. Driven by a mission to connect people with essential care services, CVS Health is committed to fostering healthier communities and supporting the wellbeing of all individuals.

📋 Description

• Define and own the enterprise platform security strategy, roadmap, and policy framework for cloud, container, and AI security • Establish unified technical standards and architecture across cloud, container, and AI platforms • Stand up and mature the AI Security operating model • Advise senior technology, security, and business executives on platform security risks and emerging threats • Drive continuous improvement through risk-based prioritization, KPIs, executive reporting, benchmarking, and innovation • Own strategy, architecture, and operational standards for enterprise cloud security • Define and govern container and Kubernetes security across cloud and on-premises platforms • Promote preventive guardrails, policy enforcement, infrastructure-as-code controls, and self-service remediation • Influence the platform security tooling portfolio and manage vendor strategy, platform health, roadmap alignment, and capability adoption • Establish AI security governance, standards, gateways, guardrails, agentic security controls, model and platform protection, and AI detection and response • Define platform security policies, standards, reference architectures, and operational procedures • Ensure alignment with applicable regulatory frameworks and industry standards • Provide executive reporting and governance dashboards • Establish risk-based vulnerability and misconfiguration management processes • Partner with Legal, Compliance, Privacy, TPRM, Data Protection, and AI Governance teams • Build, lead, and develop a high-performing security organization • Lead through direct and matrixed influence across security, infrastructure, architecture, and business technology teams • Align platform security priorities with broader security engineering strategy, OKRs, investments, and delivery commitments • Engage cloud providers, security tooling vendors, AI platform providers, and industry standards groups • Foster secure-by-default platform engineering and measured business enablement • Report directly to the Vice President of Security Engineering and Platforms

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of progressive experience in information security, cybersecurity engineering, cloud security, infrastructure security, platform security, or related technology leadership roles • 5+ years of senior leadership experience building, leading, and scaling cross-functional security engineering teams in large, complex enterprise environments • Deep technical expertise in cloud security architecture and operations across major cloud platforms, including cloud posture management, identity and access controls, network segmentation, encryption, logging, vulnerability management, and policy enforcement • Strong understanding of container and Kubernetes security, including image scanning, workload protection, runtime controls, secrets management, cluster hardening, CI/CD integration, and vulnerability remediation • Demonstrated experience defining technical security standards, reference architectures, control frameworks, and engineering guardrails for enterprise-scale platforms • Experience with AI, GenAI, or emerging technology security programs • Strong knowledge of security posture management, vulnerability management, threat modeling, risk-based prioritization, and executive-level risk reporting • Proven ability to influence engineering culture, platform governance, security control adoption, and strategic investment decisions across multiple leadership levels • Experience operating in highly regulated environments and applying security requirements aligned to healthcare, privacy, financial, or critical infrastructure obligations • Excellent communication and presentation skills; ability to translate complex security risks into clear decisions and executive narratives • Advanced degree in a related field preferred • Relevant security and cloud certifications preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program • Equity award program • Medical coverage • Dental coverage • Vision coverage • Paid time off • Retirement savings options • Wellness programs • Other resources supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being