[Remote] Principal Cloud Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CVS Health is dedicated to building a more connected and compassionate health experience. The Principal Cloud Engineer will lead the design and evolution of private cloud storage platforms, focusing on large-scale storage architecture and data protection across enterprise environments.
Responsibilities
- Architect and engineer enterprise storage platforms that ensure data integrity, availability, security, and disaster recovery readiness
- Design and implement end-to-end storage solutions, including Software Defined Storage, SAN, NAS, and object storage across private cloud and data center environments
- Drive strategic technology decisions by evaluating emerging products, tools, and standards supporting storage, data protection, cloud, and compute platforms
- Lead infrastructure initiatives involving storage modernization, data protection, cyber recovery, data migration, and resilience engineering
- Develop and execute enterprise strategies for backup, recovery, cyber vaulting, and business continuity
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of storage architectures, configurations, policies, and operational procedures
- Partner closely with enterprise security teams to define and enforce controls protecting sensitive data from cyber threats and unauthorized access
- Stay current on emerging technologies in cloud storage, data protection, resiliency, and cybersecurity, recommending innovations to enhance performance and reduce cost
- Provide expert-level guidance for multi-vendor storage technologies, ensuring optimal lifecycle, supportability, and performance outcomes
- Mentor and guide engineering teams, fostering technical excellence and continuous improvement
- Serve as a senior technical advisor to application, operations, and leadership teams, influencing strategy for compute, storage, cloud, and data protection services
- Drive standardization, automation, and orchestration to optimize storage operations and improve infrastructure efficiency
Skills
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure engineering with deep expertise in cloud storage, data protection, and cyber recovery
- Expert-level knowledge of SAN, NAS, Object Storage, Software Define Storage, architectures and related ecosystem technologies
- Experience leading data center consolidation, large-scale data migrations, and cloud storage modernization efforts
- Strong multi-vendor management experience across major storage, backup, and cloud platform providers such as Dell PMAX, PFLEX, PowerScale, ObjectScale, Vast
- Demonstrated expertise developing backup, recovery, and cyber resiliency strategies for mission-critical workloads
- Experience with virtualization platforms (e.g., OpenShift, VMware, Hyper-V); networking fundamentals a plus
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (Highschool diploma plus 4 years relevant work experience)
- Solid experience with container platforms such as Rancher, Kubernetes as well as persistent storage
- Solid understanding of security frameworks, compliance requirements, and the integration of security controls within cloud storage environments
- Proven success designing and supporting large-scale infrastructure platforms with high reliability and performance expectations
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills
- Outstanding communication and leadership capabilities, with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical teams
Benefits
- 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.
- 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.
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