Infrastructure Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

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.

Requisition Job Description

As an Infrastructure Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing the infrastructure systems and tools that enable reliability and performance of our technology platforms supporting various business initiatives within CVS Health. This role requires a strong background in infrastructure engineering and a commitment to proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing systems for maximum uptime and performance. Collaborating with diverse teams, you will prioritize high availability, scalability, and resilience to ensure our platforms and services consistently meet and exceed customer expectations.

Primary Responsibilities:
1. Operations: Manage and maintain various systems and infrastructure, such as servers, storage, mainframe, iSeries, backup, archive, and recovery, ensuring the platforms have high availability, scalability, and reliability to meet the business requirements. Participate in on-call rotation to ensure availability and uptime of critical systems and provide timely response and resolution to incidents. Develop and maintain best practices documentation, including system architecture diagrams, standard operating procedures, and runbooks. Perform system and application performance analysis, utilizing monitoring tools, logging systems, and other relevant metrics, to identify and resolve issues and enhance overall system performance.
2. Process Improvement: Streamline and optimize operational processes, procedures, and documentation by implementing industry best practices. Develop, modify, and implement incident and problem management processes to increase efficiency and reduce downtime. Establish a comprehensive SRE process that encompasses the entire software team, ensuring seamless operations and prompt resolution of any escalated issues.
3. System Support: Collaborate with development teams to participate in code reviews, performance optimization, and application deployment processes. Drive reliability engineering practices, including monitoring, alerting, incident management, capacity planning, and disaster recovery. Automate infrastructure deployments, upgrades, and maintenance tasks, utilizing configuration management tools like Ansible and infrastructure-as-code frameworks such as Terraform. Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in infrastructure site reliability engineering and apply knowledge to continually improve CVS Health’s systems and processes. Provide customer support with meticulously documented procedures, enabling them to proficiently address customer complaints and deliver optimal service.
4. Capacity Management: Analyze historical usage patterns and growth projections to forecast future capacity requirements. Collaborate with stakeholders such as developers, product managers, and operations teams to understand the demand for resources and estimate the necessary infrastructure capacity. Establish and maintain monitoring systems to track the performance and utilization of critical resources. Identify potential bottlenecks, anomalies, or areas of improvement. Perform regular performance reviews help ensure systems meet defined service-level objectives (SLOs) and key performance indicators (KPIs).

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, System Administration, or related roles.
• Multiple years’ experience with cloud platforms (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Multiple years’ demonstrated proficiency in at least one configuration management tool such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Multiple years’ experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
• Multiple years’ demonstrated knowledge of networking principles and protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, and firewalls.
• A year or more experience with incident management, performance monitoring, and capacity planning tools.- Advanced Technical Degree (i.e Master’s) preferred
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify, communicate, and resolve technical issues swiftly.

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.

Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is: $120,750.00 – $240,000.00.

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.

In addition to your compensation, enjoy the rewards of an organization that puts our heart into caring for our colleagues and our communities. The Company offers a full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits. Eligible employees may enroll in the Company’s 401(k) retirement savings plan, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also available for eligible employees. The Company provides a fully-paid term life insurance plan to eligible employees, and short-term and long term disability benefits. CVS Health also offers numerous well-being programs, education assistance, free development courses, a CVS store discount, and discount programs with participating partners. As for time off, Company employees enjoy Paid Time Off (PTO) or vacation pay, as well as paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Number of paid holidays, sick time and other time off are provided consistent with relevant state law and Company policies.

For more detailed information on available benefits, please visit jobs.CVSHealth.com/benefits

CVS Health requires certain colleagues to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (including any booster shots if required), where allowable under the law, unless they are approved for a reasonable accommodation based on disability, medical condition, religious belief, or other legally recognized reasons that prevents them from being vaccinated. 

You are required to have received at least one COVID-19 shot prior to your first day of employment and to provide proof of your vaccination status or apply for a reasonable accommodation within the first 10 days of your employment. Please note that in some states and roles, you may be required to provide proof of full vaccination or an approved reasonable accommodation before you can begin to actively work.

CVS Health is committed to recruiting, hiring, developing, advancing, and retaining individuals with disabilities. As such, we strive to provide equal access to the benefits and privileges of employment, including the provision of a reasonable accommodation to perform essential job functions. CVS Health can provide a request for a reasonable accommodation, including a qualified interpreter, written information in other formats, translation or other services through ColleagueRelations@CVSHealth.com If you have a speech or hearing disability, please call 7-1-1 to utilize Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS). We will make every effort to respond to your request within 48 business hours and do everything we can to work towards a solution.