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Position Summary
The Manager, Cloud & Data Platform Engineer owns the Retail Resource Center’s application and data technology stack in the Google Cloud environment, working in a fast-paced setting where reliability, security, data quality, and speed of delivery are critical. Work efforts are focused on managing application deployment, cloud infrastructure, and data pipelines across Cloud Run, Kubernetes (GKE), Redis, BigQuery, and other Google Cloud services to support reliable releases, system stability, scalability, trusted analytics, and operational efficiency. The role also leverages AI to accelerate development and automation, including the development of AI agents.
Key Responsibilities
- Owns the application and data technology stack in Google Cloud, including architecture, availability, performance, and lifecycle management of Cloud Run services, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters, Redis databases, BigQuery datasets, and supporting services such as Cloud Composer, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Secret Manager, and Artifact Registry.
- Manages code deployment and release processes. Designs, builds, and maintains CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Cloud Build, GitHub Actions) for application and data workloads, including pipeline code, DAGs, and SQL transformations, and applies release strategies to keep deployments fast, repeatable, and low risk.
- Oversees containerization and deployment practices, including configuration management and container image lifecycle management.
- Designs, builds, and maintains batch and streaming data pipelines that ingest data into BigQuery.
- Develops and manages the analytics data layer in BigQuery, including dataset design, and SQL-based transformations that produce data models for reporting and analysis.
- Implements data quality checks, schema management, lineage, and pipeline observability. Defines and monitors data freshness and reliability targets, and troubleshoots failed or delayed data loads.
- Applies data governance and security controls, including dataset- and column-level access, handling of sensitive data, and retention policies in line with company privacy and compliance standards.
- Partners with analysts, product owners, and business stakeholders to translate reporting needs into reliable datasets and dashboards and supports self-service access to trusted data.
- Defines and manages infrastructure as code with version-controlled, peer-reviewed changes. Automates provisioning, environment setup, and routine operational tasks to improve efficiency and consistency across development, staging, and production.
- Implements monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting for applications, infrastructure, and data pipelines. Defines and tracks service levels and builds dashboards that give stakeholders clear visibility into platform health and performance.
- Leads incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews for production issues. Participates in an on-call rotation and develops runbooks and operating procedures.
- Manages IAM roles, service accounts, network configuration, secrets, and vulnerability scanning in line with company security and compliance standards. Partners with security teams on audits and remediation.
- Plans for capacity, autoscaling, backup, and disaster recovery for applications and data stores to ensure the platform can scale with business needs.
- Collaborates with software engineering, security, and operations teams to understand requirements, answer cloud architecture and deployment questions, and develop solutions to technical challenges.
- Leverages AI to accelerate development and automation across application, infrastructure, and workloads, improving delivery speed and consistency.
- Develops AI agents to automate workflows and operational tasks, accelerating delivery and reducing manual effort.
- Evaluates new Google Cloud services, tools, and practices, and contributes technical input to roadmap and strategic planning sessions.
- Seeks opportunities to enhance their knowledge and skills through professional development, training, and certifications, and explores new tools and techniques to improve platform reliability and engineering efficiency.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in DevOps, site reliability, cloud, platform, or data engineering, including hands-on production experience with Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, GKE, Redis, BigQuery) and building or supporting production data pipelines
- Working knowledge of Google Cloud services, including Cloud Run, GKE, Redis, BigQuery, and IAM
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes and Docker
- Experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines
- Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language (e.g., Python) and strong SQL skills
- Experience leveraging AI tools to support development and automation
- Experience designing and operating data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows, including orchestration, data modeling, and data quality practices
- Strong problem solving, troubleshooting, and decision making skills
- Clear written and verbal communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Google Cloud certification (e.g., Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, or Professional Data Engineer)
- Experience with GitOps tooling, event-driven architectures, or API gateways
- Experience with Cloud Composer/Airflow and BI tools such as PowerBI
- Experience developing AI agents to automate workflows and accelerate delivery
Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field preferred, or equivalent practical experience.
Anticipated Weekly Hours
40Time Type
Full timePay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$54,300.00 - $145,860.00This 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 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.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in DevOps, site reliability, cloud, platform, or data engineering, including hands-on production experience with Google Cloud Platform and production data pipelines
- Working knowledge of Cloud Run, Google Kubernetes Engine, Redis, BigQuery, and IAM
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes and Docker
- Experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines
- Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language, such as Python, and strong SQL skills
- Experience leveraging AI tools to support development and automation
- Experience designing and operating data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows, including orchestration, data modeling, and data quality practices
- Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and decision-making skills
- Clear written and verbal communication skills
- Google Cloud certification, such as Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, or Professional Data Engineer
- Experience with GitOps tooling, event-driven architectures, or API gateways
- Experience with Cloud Composer or Airflow and BI tools such as Power BI
- Experience developing AI agents to automate workflows and accelerate delivery
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
CVS Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about CVS Health and has not been reviewed or approved by CVS Health.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes medical, dental, and vision with HSA-eligible options, free preventive care, virtual care, and access to MinuteClinic services. Mental-health resources such as counseling support are emphasized, and coverage is often considered solid for full-time colleagues.
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Retirement Support — A dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 5% after one year and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan are consistently highlighted in Total Rewards materials. Feedback suggests retirement programs are a meaningful strength within the overall package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing offerings include up to 20 no-cost counseling sessions per issue, backup care, tuition assistance, and substantial in-store discounts, alongside broader wellness tools. These everyday perks expand value beyond base pay and can be especially meaningful for full-time schedules.
CVS Health Insights
What We Do
CVS Health is the leading health solutions company that delivers care in ways no one else can. We reach people in more ways and improve the health of communities across America through our local presence, digital channels and our nearly 300,000 dedicated colleagues – including more than 40,000 physicians, pharmacists, nurses and nurse practitioners. Wherever and whenever people need us, we help them with their health – whether that’s managing chronic diseases, staying compliant with their medications, or accessing affordable health and wellness services in the most convenient ways. We help people navigate the health care system – and their personal health care – by improving access, lowering costs and being a trusted partner for every meaningful moment of health. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.
