Job Description
As a Senior Engineer - The primary objective is to support the CVS Health vision to build self-serviced cloud infrastructure platform for the applications teams.
Develop and maintain the corporate messaging infrastructure ensuring message delivery, security, retention, and recoverability of the topics and messages.
In this role, the Kafka Infrastructure engineer will design, build, test, and deploy quality messaging and streaming solutions that are consistent with project objectives, technology architecture standards, and departmental best practices.
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
Minimum: 95,000
Maximum: 209,000
Please keep in mind that this range represents the pay range for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual salary offer will take into account a wide range of factors, including location.
Required Qualifications• At least 10 years of overall IT experience.• A strong engineering background and is interested in cloud infrastructure (such as AWS, GCP, or Azure)• Hands on experience in building/provisioning infrastructure to
the application teams using Kafka for their messaging needs.• Manage large scale multi-nodes Kafka cluster environments residing on Cloud (AWS/GCP) and on-prem platform.• Handle all Kafka environment builds, including capacity planning, cluster setup, performance tuning and ongoing monitoring.• Perform high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for the Kafka Cluster.• Creation of key performance metrics, measuring the utilization, performance, and overall health of the cluster.• Cluster\Scaling\Replication maintenance as well as creation and removal of nodes to the Redis cluster.• Implementation of new/upgraded hardware and software releases as well as for storage infrastructure.• Experience building infrastructure as a product centered around users' needs• Experience working with tools such as, Terraform, Jenkins, and/or Chef.• Proficient knowledge of common DevOps tools such as Git/Github, Jenkins, containers, etc.• Proactively monitor and setup alerting mechanism for Kafka Cluster and supporting hardware to ensure system health and maximum availability.• Perform high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for the Kafka cluster.• Provide technical expertise and guidance to production support.• Must have excellent communications and interpersonal skills
COVID Requirements
COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement
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.
Preferred Qualifications• Works with a cross-functional team, uses agile practices.• Hands-on experience with Kafka clusters hosted on Cloud (AWS, GCP) and on-prem platforms.• Experience in building Kafka pipelines using Terraform, Cloud formation templates, shells etc.• Experience in implementing security & authorization (permission based) on Kafka cluster.• Aid System Administrators with setting up Kafka platform in provisioning, access lists Kerberos and SSL configurations.• Experience in setting standards to automate deployments using Kubernetes, Docker, Chef or Jenkins• Experience in open source and confluent Kafka, zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry, KSQL, Rest proxy and Kafka Control center.• Experience in Kafka Mirror Maker or Confluent Replicator• Hands on experience in standing up and administrating Kafka platform from scratch which includes creating a backup & mirroring of Kafka Cluster brokers, broker sizing, topic sizing, h/w sizing, performance monitoring, broker security, topic security, consumer/producer access management (ACL).• Experience in In-memory data structure store administration with an emphasis on Redis and Cassandra is a plus.• Be able to mentor junior members of the team and setup the team in the path of success.
Education
Bachelor's degree in Electrical engineering/Computer Science or a closely related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and 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.