Digital Development Engineer II

CVS Health • Carolina, NC

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About The Position

CVS Health is seeking a Digital Development Engineer II to improve the reliability, resilience, availability, and performance of critical applications and infrastructure. The role establishes and matures service level indicators (SLIs), service level objectives (SLOs), monitoring, and alerting for applications. It participates in production incident response, troubleshooting, stabilization, root-cause analysis, and efforts to improve mean time to recovery (MTTR).

The engineer develops automation, operational standards, procedures, and runbooks; assesses releases and production changes for reliability risks; identifies dependencies and failure points across distributed systems; and implements resiliency and testing strategies. The role partners with application, platform, infrastructure, and business teams, contributes to CI/CD and automation workflows, and helps advance site reliability engineering (SRE) practices across engineering teams.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in software engineering and backend development.
• Experience with Java/Spring Boot and/or Node.js/TypeScript.
• Experience with AWS and cloud-native technologies.
• Experience with Kubernetes or containerized environments.
• Experience with REST APIs and microservices.
• Experience with CI/CD and deployment automation.
• Experience with New Relic or similar observability/APM technology.
• Experience with Splunk or centralized logging.
• Experience troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; alternatively, a high school diploma and 4 years of relevant experience.

Nice To Haves

• Working knowledge of problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Automation or scripting experience.
• Experience with messaging or queue technologies such as Kafka.
• Production incident management and root-cause analysis experience.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, SLIs, and SLOs.

Responsibilities

• Develop automation to reduce manual operational work and improve reliability.
• Create and maintain operational standards, procedures, and runbooks.
• Analyze major releases and production changes for potential availability and reliability risks.
• Identify application dependencies and potential failure points across distributed systems.
• Develop and implement resiliency and testing strategies for applications and infrastructure.
• Partner with application, platform, infrastructure, and business teams to drive reliability improvements.
• Contribute to CI/CD and automation workflows that enable reliable software delivery.
• Help drive SRE principles and reliability practices across engineering teams.
• Participate in production incident response, troubleshooting, stabilization, root-cause analysis, and MTTR improvement.
• Establish and mature SLIs, SLOs, monitoring, and alerting for applications.

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Paid time off
• Retirement savings options
• Wellness programs
• Other resources, based on eligibility
• Eligibility for a CVS Health bonus, commission, or short-term incentive program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level