Senior Platform Engineer, Data & Performance Enablement

CVS Health

1d•$83,430 - $222,480

About The Position

As a Senior Platform Engineer on our Data & Performance Enablement team, you will take a significant role in designing and implementing the platforms that manage all distributed event streaming technologies at HCD. You will own the development of key features for our database, messaging, and data warehouse platforms. Your work will directly enable our engineering teams to build high-performance, data-intensive applications. You will mentor other engineers, collaborate with customer teams, and contribute to the technical roadmap for your area.

Requirements

5 years of applicable experience
Strong experience with messaging platforms (Kafka/Redis)
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
Proficient in at least one scripting language (e.g., Bash, Python).
Solid experience with at least one major cloud provider (Azure or AWS preferred) and their managed offerings.

Nice To Haves

A product mindset and empathy for developer customers, with experience helping teams design scalable data models.
A pragmatic approach to problem-solving and a proven ability to deliver complex technical projects.
Experience with GitHub Actions or similar pipeline technologies.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain key components of our data platform automation for provisioning, backups, and user management.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex performance and reliability issues in our data systems, often serving as an escalation point for the team.
Proactively identify opportunities to improve data streaming services, security, scalability, and automation.
Participate in an on-call rotation to support the team's critical services.
Mentor junior engineers on the team, providing guidance on database administration, query optimization, and DBRE principles.
Contribute to the technical roadmap by researching new data technologies and proposing innovative solutions.