Staff Observability Data Infrastructure Engineer

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.

KEY 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.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 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.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 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.

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s degree from accredited university or equivalent work 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.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

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.  This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program. 
 

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Great benefits for great people

We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.

Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

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