Lead Director – Cloud & Platform Engineering

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $144.2k - $288.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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CVS Health Careers

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10,000+ employees

🏥 Healthcare

🛒 Retail

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Retail • Logistics

CVS Health Careers is the recruitment and employer branding arm of CVS Health, showcasing job opportunities across the company's broad operations—pharmacy retail stores, pharmacy services, health care clinics, distribution warehouses, corporate functions and transportation. The careers site emphasizes purpose-driven work focused on improving access, affordability and quality of health care, and highlights a large workforce (300,000+ employees), inclusive culture, benefits, and hiring resources for applicants.

📋 Description

• Own the multi-cloud platform engineering strategy and roadmap for Health100 and PCW across GCP, AWS, and Azure • Translate business priorities, application demand, resiliency requirements, and enterprise standards into sequenced engineering initiatives • Establish measurable outcomes and executive-level visibility into roadmap progress, platform adoption, reliability, delivery predictability, automation, cost efficiency, risks, trade-offs, and investment requirements • Lead the architecture, engineering, implementation, and lifecycle management of enterprise cloud platforms • Drive engineering of cloud foundations, networking, identity, security, Kubernetes, data services, shared services, and observability • Ensure platforms address availability, multi-region resiliency, disaster recovery, scalability, performance, maintainability, security, and cost requirements • Lead technical design and engineering reviews through production readiness • Convert architecture and roadmap priorities into executable delivery plans across internal teams, cloud providers, and strategic partners • Establish repeatable release and environment-promotion practices and use delivery metrics to identify risks • Establish an automation-first model using Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, policy as code, CI/CD, reusable modules, and automated validation • Develop self-service platform capabilities and reusable engineering patterns • Partner with DevOps/Operations and Production SRE to establish deployment workflows, operational handoffs, SLOs, SLIs, observability, recovery, runbooks, ownership, escalation, and support requirements • Drive permanent corrective actions and roadmap improvements using incidents, reliability trends, and operational feedback • Partner across Network Engineering, Cybersecurity, Identity, Enterprise Architecture, Application Engineering, Data, DevOps/Operations, Production SRE, cloud providers, and strategic partners • Advise senior leaders on cloud architecture, engineering priorities, modernization, delivery sequencing, and technology investments • Serve as an escalation point for complex engineering and delivery issues • Embed security, compliance, identity, network segmentation, data protection, and policy requirements into engineering patterns and governance • Partner with FinOps and business stakeholders on cloud forecasting, cost transparency, unit economics, optimization, and capacity planning • Maintain lifecycle strategies for platform upgrades, deprecation, technical debt, and vendor dependencies • Build and lead a cloud platform engineering organization and develop technical leaders • Establish engineering standards, design patterns, playbooks, documentation, and review mechanisms • Develop workforce, sourcing, and strategic partner approaches aligned with Health100 and PCW roadmaps

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, SRE or related disciplines • 5+ years of technology leadership, engineering management, architecture leadership or equivalent large-scale technical leadership • 7+ years of deep engineering experience in at least one major public cloud platform, with working knowledge across GCP, AWS and Azure • 7+ years of experience with cloud foundations and landing zones, including networking, DNS, identity, security, Kubernetes, compute, storage, databases, shared services and observability • 5+ years of experience with Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation and reusable engineering patterns • 5+ years of experience partnering with dedicated DevOps/Operations and Production SRE teams to transition engineered services into reliable production operation • 5+ years of experience defining or applying SLOs, SLIs, production-readiness criteria, observability, capacity management, disaster recovery and operational support models • Experience leading multi-cloud platform engineering or transformation programs across GCP, AWS and Azure • Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional delivery involving internal teams, cloud providers and strategic partners • Demonstrated experience defining strategy and roadmaps and delivering enterprise cloud capabilities against them • Experience supporting healthcare, regulated or other business-critical enterprise environments • Experience establishing internal developer platforms, paved-road services or self-service infrastructure capabilities • Advanced experience with Terraform, Kubernetes and service mesh technologies • Experience integrating cloud platforms with enterprise networks, data centers, security platforms and shared services • Experience supporting AI/ML, GPU, data-intensive or high-performance workloads • Experience with FinOps, cloud consumption forecasting and cost optimization • Relevant certifications such as Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Certified Kubernetes Administrator or HashiCorp Terraform Associate/Professional • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience (High School Diploma/GED plus 4 years of related experience)

🏖️ 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

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