Principal Architect - Cloud and Observability

CVS Health

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Remote (Work At Home-Illinois, US) Posted 49 days ago $144,200–$288,400 / year
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TL;DR

The Principal Architect role at CVS Health involves leading the architecture and technical direction for observability platforms and hybrid cloud infrastructure within the Enterprise Architecture team. This hands-on position requires building reference architectures, telemetry standards, and instrumentation patterns to ensure consistent monitoring across on-prem private cloud (OpenShift, KVM) and public clouds (Azure, AWS, GCP). Key responsibilities include driving an OpenTelemetry-first approach with Grafana Mimir, Loki, and Tempo, defining reliability metrics, and integrating observability with incident management tools. The role also entails guiding compute runtime selection, autoscaling strategies, and FinOps practices while exploring AI/ML applications in observability. Ideal candidates have extensive experience with Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, and observability platforms like Grafana, Prometheus, and Datadog, along with strong communication skills for both technical teams and leadership.

Skills

OpenTelemetry Grafana Mimir Loki Tempo Kubernetes AWS Azure GCP Prometheus Datadog Splunk Dynatrace SLOs SLIs SPIFFE SPIRE Terraform FinOps ServiceNow xMatters

What you'll do

  • Own and develop the enterprise observability reference architecture for metrics, logs, traces, and events across all environments.
  • Drive OpenTelemetry-first instrumentation strategy including standard libraries, semantic conventions, and collector topologies.
  • Build and operate telemetry pipelines on Grafana Mimir, Loki, and Tempo with multi-tenant configurations and capacity planning.
  • Define reliability measurement standards such as SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and alerting frameworks across all business units.
  • Lead the creation of hybrid cloud reference architectures for OpenShift, KVM/libvirt, Dell PowerFlex storage, Azure, AWS, and GCP.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud architecture, platform engineering, or SRE
  • 8+ years of architecture work in observability and/or cloud infrastructure at a large enterprise
  • Solid experience with Azure, AWS, GCP including networking, identity, compute, and storage
  • 5+ years working with Kubernetes (OpenShift, EKS, AKS, GKE) in production environments
  • Extensive knowledge of OpenTelemetry or similar observability frameworks and platforms
  • Proven ability to define SLOs/SLIs and develop alerting strategies at an organizational level
  • Strong track record of writing adopted architecture standards for other teams

Market check

Salary context

This $144,200–$288,400 range sits above 73% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$134,995–$229,100

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$142,400–$223,775

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About CVS Health

CVS Health is a leading American healthcare company operating retail pharmacies, pharmacy benefit management services, and a health insurance segment through Aetna, one of the nation''s largest health insurers. Industry: Healthcare & Pharmacy

CVS Health currently has 93 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $118,450–$260,590 across 90 roles with salary data.

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