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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
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Listed pay typically runs
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Staff Engineer - SRE, Retail and Pharmacy joins the Site Reliability Engineering team to oversee the reliability, availability, and performance of distributed store technology across pharmacy platforms, point of sale systems, and edge computing infrastructure. This role involves building and owning core programs including observability platforms, production readiness frameworks, incident management models, and chaos engineering initiatives. You will architect multi-tier data pipelines, implement AI-enabled detection using LLMs for alert summarization, and manage fleet-scale deployment reliability across thousands of unattended nodes. Key technologies include Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Datadog, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, and Terraform. The role addresses the challenge of ensuring high availability in a hybrid cloud environment where hardware and infrastructure must remain resilient for critical retail and pharmacy operations. You will serve as a technical peer to engineering leaders, transforming reliability from an operational task into a scalable, automated capability.
What does a Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $189520 from 49 postings across 15 companies.
Architect and manage an end-to-end observability platform including data streaming, storage, and AI-enabled detection pipelines.
Design and implement the Production Readiness Review framework to automate policy enforcement and ensure service reliability.
Build and lead a large-scale chaos engineering program featuring failure injection scenarios and multi-domain GameDay exercises.
Manage fleet-scale deployment reliability by designing progressive rollout strategies and automated configuration drift detection.
Serve as a Technical Incident Commander for high-priority incidents while developing the organization's incident response models.
Develop an automated postmortem pipeline to convert incident data into actionable engineering improvements and reduced recurrence.
Build and maintain a developer platform that provides self-service tools, DORA metrics, and reliability APIs for engineering teams.
Drive organizational change by advocating for SRE principles and building consensus with leadership on reliability investments.
What we're looking for
8+ years of SRE, platform engineering, or production systems engineering with demonstrated program-level ownership.
End-to-end ownership of at least one major SRE program such as observability, production readiness, incident management, or chaos engineering.
Experience designing and implementing LLM integration for operational use cases like alert summarization and incident triage in a production context.
Demonstrated experience with fleet-scale deployment reliability including progressive rollouts and configuration drift detection for large unattended node deployments.
Proven ability to drive organizational change and adoption of new engineering standards within a large, established organization.
Ability to quantify and report the financial ROI of reliability programs to stakeholders.
TIC (Technical Incident Commander) certification or equivalent experience leading P0/P1 incidents with executive coordination.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent practical.