Staff Observability Data Infrastructure Engineer

CVS Health • Prior Lake, MI

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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. POSITION SUMMARY CVS Health is seeking a highly skilled Observability Data Infrastructure Engineer to join our Enterprise Observability and Security Engineering team. This individual contributor role is responsible for building, scaling, and operationalizing an enterprise Observability Lakehouse that enables threat detection, incident response, and platform visibility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Databricks, large-scale telemetry pipelines, and OpenTelemetry (OTEL)-aligned architectures, along with strong engineering rigor and a passion for improving security and reliability through data. This role partners closely with Security Engineering, SRE, Cloud, and SOC teams to ensure enterprise telemetry is complete, trustworthy, and actionable.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building and operating log, metric, and trace pipelines in Data, Security Data, or Observability Engineering roles.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, or other large-scale distributed data platforms.
• 5+ years of experience working across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including storage, compute, and event-driven services.
• 5+ years of production experience using SQL and Python in data-intensive environments.
• 3+ years of experience with enterprise observability platforms (Splunk, Datadog, Elastic, or equivalent).
• 3+ years of experience with high-throughput ingestion and streaming technologies such as Cribl, Vector, or Kafka.
• 3+ years of experience designing telemetry systems aligned to OpenTelemetry (OTEL) or similar standards.

Nice To Haves

• Background supporting SIEM/SOAR platforms, detection engineering, or threat analytics.
• Familiarity with Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, metadata management, and data lineage.
• Understanding of security governance, auditing, access controls, and sensitive data handling.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM/Bicep, CloudFormation).
• Familiarity with cloud-native compute and orchestration services (Azure Functions, AWS Lambda, GCP Cloud Functions, Kubernetes).
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage both engineering teams and senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated passion for observability, security, reliability, and continuous learning.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate high-volume log, metric, and trace pipelines using Databricks, cloud data lakes, and distributed processing engines.
• Architect and evolve an Observability Lakehouse aligned with OpenTelemetry (OTEL) data models and standards.
• Implement ingestion and transformation workflows using technologies such as Cribl, Vector, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent tools.
• Normalize, model, and enrich telemetry data to support detection engineering, forensics, and operational analytics.
• Develop scalable ETL/ELT frameworks, Delta Lake architectures, and automated data quality validation for unstructured and semi-structured data.
• Partner with Security Engineering, SRE, Cloud, and SOC teams to improve enterprise visibility and detection accuracy.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and reusable Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) patterns for observability platform deployment.
• Identify and resolve performance, latency, cost, and reliability issues across telemetry pipelines.
• Contribute to engineering standards, documentation, and knowledge sharing across observability and security platforms.

Benefits

• This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility. Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees