Lead Director – Network Core Infrastructure Operations

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $144.2k - $288.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Operations

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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

• Lead engineers responsible for core routing and switching infrastructure across datacenters, campuses, WAN edge, and cloud connectivity • Own operational health, performance, and security of WAN and LAN environments • Oversee design, implementation, maintenance, turn-ups, changes, and remediation for resilient networks • Operate and safeguard enterprise DNS, DHCP, and IPAM services using Infoblox • Maintain NTP and network authentication services such as RADIUS and 802.1X with identity and security teams • Implement and oversee SDN, SD-WAN, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, and ACI capabilities • Manage multi-cloud connectivity and coordinate carrier/WAN services • Ensure network monitoring is captured, acknowledged, reported, and consolidated into a single-pane-of-glass view • Create automated reporting for network health, outages, and status • Identify vulnerabilities and prevent downtime or service disruptions • Lead complex network problem-solving, investigations, resolutions, and root-cause analyses • Develop and enforce network change-control processes • Collaborate cross-functionally to implement changes with minimal operational impact • Review daily network changes and improve approved-change success rates • Lead, mentor, and develop a Level 1–3 network operations team • Manage staffing and shift coverage for network availability • Develop and track network performance, reliability, and efficiency KPIs • Lead capacity planning and forecast investment needs • Drive governed automation for diagnostics, configuration compliance, and reporting • Adopt AI-assisted/AIOps capabilities where valuable, with engineers reviewing and approving recommendations

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of enterprise network infrastructure operations and engineering experience • 5+ years of hands-on enterprise routing and switching experience on Cisco platforms including Nexus, Catalyst, ISR/ASR, BGP, OSPF or EIGRP, VLANs, spanning tree, VXLAN/EVPN, VRFs, QoS, and ACLs • 3+ years of experience leading teams • 3+ years of experience operating enterprise-scale DNS, DHCP, and IPAM services using Infoblox • 3+ years of WAN and LAN experience across datacenter, campus, and multi-site environments, including MPLS and/or SD-WAN • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience • HS diploma plus 4 years of relevant experience as an alternative to a bachelor's degree • Experience with load balancing using F5 • Experience with incident, problem, and change management in a 24x7 operations environment • Strong monitoring and observability background • Scripting/automation experience using Python or Ansible • Familiarity with AI-driven network operations/AIOps • Experience with streaming telemetry, SNMP, NetFlow/IPFIX, and syslog data pipelines at scale • Advanced automation/infrastructure-as-code using NETCONF/YANG, Ansible, or Terraform • Hands-on experience with Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, ACI, or Catalyst Center/DNA Center • Multi-cloud networking experience with AWS and/or Azure • Experience in a large, regulated enterprise such as healthcare, HIPAA, or PCI DSS environments • Industry certifications such as Cisco CCNP, CCIE or equivalent, and ITIL

🏖️ Benefits

• CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program • Award target in the company’s 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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