Staff Engineer - SRE, Retail and Pharmacy

CVS Health • Woonsocket, RI

31d

About The Position

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.
The Staff Engineer – SRE, Retail & Pharmacy will implement and maintain comprehensive observability solutions, providing real-time insights into the performance and overall health of systems to proactively identify and address potential issues. This role is responsible for investigating and resolving incidents quickly during critical situations and performing root cause analysis to prevent future recurrence. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build robust monitoring, alerting, and telemetry solutions, enabling proactive issue detection and resolution across distributed systems. As a senior member of the SRE team, you will drive best practices, mentor others, and shape the strategic evolution of our observability ecosystem in a complex, edge-centric architecture.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or related technology roles
• 5+ years of experience in delivering software in a large-scale environment with reliability and resilience concepts (multi-region, multi-cloud, containerization, etc.)
• 5+ years of experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.
• 3+ years of experience with programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, java) for automation and tooling in distributed environments
• 3+ years of experience on Cloud Technologies (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
• 3+ years of experience with source control and continuous integration tools like Git/Stash, BitBucket, or Jenkins
• 2+ years of engineering team leadership or management experience
• Experience using customer feedback tools such as Quantum Metrics, Medalia, and Adobe Analytics
• Deep understanding of microservices architecture and cloud-native technologies
• Experience in configuring, supporting, and managing Rancher, Kubernetes, and/or Docker
• Experience in Incident Management, Change Management, Infrastructure Support, and Problem Management concepts and processes
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required

Nice To Haves

• Expertise working in edge computing environments with a large number of remote facilities, managing observability for distributed, high-latency, or resource-constrained systems
• Familiarity with chaos engineering principles to validate observability systems in edge environments
• Experience with retail SRE organizations, including experience with store systems; Point of Sale (POS), hand-helds, etc.
• Expertise in cloud development and deployment technologies, including containerization and multi-cloud configurations
• Demonstrated understanding of various API management and related platforms like Apigee, Vordel, Data power
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred

Responsibilities

• Observability Strategy & Implementation
• Design and implement comprehensive observability solutions tailored for edge computing environments, including monitoring, logging, tracing, and metrics collection, to provide deep visibility into system performance and health across distributed remote facilities
• Define and maintain Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and business KPIs to measure and enhance system reliability in edge and centralized infrastructure
• Build and optimize dashboards, visualizations, and alerting systems to enable real-time insights and rapid incident response for edge nodes and remote facilities
• Implement distributed tracing and log aggregation systems to troubleshoot complex issues in edge computing environments
• System Reliability & Performance
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure applications and infrastructure at edge locations are designed with observability in mind, incorporating best practices for instrumentation and monitoring in resource-constrained environments
• Drive proactive identification of issues in edge facilities through advanced observability tools, reducing Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) across distributed systems
• Lead incident postmortems, analyzing root causes specific to edge environments and implementing observability-driven improvements to prevent recurrence
• Tooling & Automation
• Develop and maintain tools, scripts, and automation to enhance observability pipelines, optimizing for the unique challenges of edge computing, such as bandwidth limitations and intermittent connectivity
• Evaluate and integrate industry-standard observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, OpenTelemetry) and recommend solutions tailored for edge computing use cases
• Optimize observability data storage, retention, and querying to balance performance, cost, and scalability across a large number of remote facilities
• Leadership & Collaboration:
• Mentor and guide junior SREs and engineers on observability best practices for edge computing, fostering a culture of reliability and proactive monitoring
• Partner with solution, engineering, and business teams to align observability efforts with business objectives, ensuring seamless operation of edge and centralized systems
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve observability, reliability, and operational efficiency across distributed edge infrastructure
• Continuous Improvement:
• Stay current with emerging observability trends, tools, and methodologies, particularly those suited for edge computing and distributed systems, and advocate for their adoption
• Contribute to the development of observability standards, runbooks, and documentation tailored for edge environments to ensure consistency and scalability
• Drive cost optimization for observability infrastructure while maintaining high-quality monitoring and alerting capabilities across remote facilities

Benefits

• Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.
• No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.
• Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.

What This Job Offers

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