Senior Software Development Engineer – IaaS

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

At CVS, we are building a next-generation Infrastructure Platform that empowers engineering teams across CVS Digital to deploy code and operate applications at the scale of a Fortune 10 enterprise. This platform will serve hundreds of engineers across Retail, Pharmacy, Health Solutions, and Aetna—supporting applications used by millions of customers.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer – IaaS, you will be a key contributor in designing and implementing a modern, self-service application resource provisioning system. You will work closely with other engineers, architects, and product teams to deliver highly scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure solutions. This is an opportunity to work on a new team building a platform from the ground up, where your technical expertise and problem-solving skills will directly impact developer experience and operational excellence.

What We Expect of You

• A self-starter who can see the big picture and prioritize their work to make the largest impact on the business
• A technologist who can work with other engineers to plan, prioritize and perform assigned tasks within deadlines
• Develop technical solutions in collaboration with other engineers across CVS Digital to ensure we're building an infrastructure platform with our customer's needs in mind
• Lead the implementation of a self-service platform that enables engineers to deploy code safely, quickly, and easily
• Keep an eye out for new and emerging technologies that improve performance, delivery, and the developer experience
• Actively participate in peer code reviews, providing feedback to your fellow engineers to make them better and to improve the quality of the software we deliver
• Enjoy automating developer pain away by developing a robust compute infrastructure
• Approach all engineering work with a performance lens and make it easy for teams to identify performance bottlenecks
• Find joy and pride in coaching and mentoring mid to early career software engineers
• Look for opportunities to share what you've learned with the broader engineering organization

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of professional software development experience with at least 3+ years of managing and provisioning Kubernetes clusters in production environments
• 3+ years working with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio) for traffic management, security, and observability
• 3+ years managing cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure), including compute, networking, IAM, and storage
• Experience managing TLS certificates, including automated renewal and Kubernetes integration
• Hands-on experience deploying Kubernetes applications using Helm
• Strong understanding of networking concepts: DNS, load balancing, ingress controllers, firewalls, VPN
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments and collaborating with architecture and product team

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience building backend APIs in Java or Go
• Familiarity with hybrid cloud environments
• Strong skills in automation via scripting or CLI tools
• Expertise in observability for infrastructure services
• Background in mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence
• Knowledge of zero-trust networking models and service-to-service authentication
• Ability to assess and optimize large-scale infrastructure performance
• Strong communication skills to present architecture trade-offs and technical recommendations

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

Bring your heart to CVS Health Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.  Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.  We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day.  CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.  We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities.

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This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls.  The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors.  This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. 
 

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits – investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:

• 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.

For more information, visit https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits

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