Principal Cloud Architect

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🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $144.2k - $288.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

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☁️ Cloud Engineer

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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 Aetna Technology cloud reference architectures, including landing zones, account/subscription structure, networking, identity, and workload patterns • Define the multicloud position and workload-placement criteria across AWS, GCP, and Azure • Design and maintain paved-road golden patterns, modules, and guardrails • Serve as escalation point for complex cloud design decisions • Embed zero-trust, identity, and network segmentation patterns into architectures • Define resilience and workload-placement standards, including availability targets and failure isolation • Own cloud cost architecture and incorporate FinOps into design decisions • Provide cloud architecture for AI capabilities, including compute, data access, model serving, and multi-model orchestration • Partner with AI platform teams on secure and cost-effective infrastructure and guardrails • Author cloud standards enforced as automated gates and paved-road defaults • Contribute to architecture governance, reference architectures, technology radar input, and design reviews • Evaluate cloud-native services across AWS, GCP, and Azure and recommend adoption • Translate architecture trade-offs for senior technology leaders and peer architects • Coach Solution Architects and senior engineers through design reviews without direct reporting relationships • Partner with strategic cloud vendors and internal platform teams

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years in technology, with deep, hands-on cloud architecture experience at Aetna Technology scale • Expert-level AWS architecture covering compute, networking, identity, data, and security • Working proficiency in GCP and Azure • Demonstrated ownership of landing zones, reference architectures, and paved-road/golden-path patterns • Strong command of cloud security and zero-trust architecture, including identity, segmentation, and blast-radius reduction • Working knowledge of FinOps and cost-aware architecture, with ability to tie design decisions to dollar impact • Track record of driving technical outcomes through influence and design authority as an individual contributor • Experience in healthcare, health insurance, or similarly regulated industries • Hands-on experience with AI/ML platform infrastructure, including model serving, multi-model orchestration, and supporting compute/data patterns • Relevant cloud certifications, such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional • Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated policy/guardrail enforcement • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience

🏖️ Benefits

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

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