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
We are seeking a Senior Integration SRE to lead the reliability, availability, and scalability of our integration platforms—including various API gateways, event streams, messaging systems, and data pipelines. In this role, you will operate mission-critical systems that connect internal and external applications. You will define SLOs/SLIs, build resilience patterns, improve observability, and elevate engineering teams’ production readiness practices.
This is a technical leadership role for an engineer who thrives on solving complex distributed systems challenges, manage offshore 24/7 operations team, improving reliability through automation, and driving cross-team alignment on platform and operational excellence.
Success Indicators- 99.9% availability for integration systems.
- Improved p95 latency across APIs.
- Error budgets consistently maintained.
- MTTR improves quarter over quarter.
- Automation and AI coverage increase by 50%.
- Organization adopts standardized patterns for integration reliability.
Candidates can be located anywhere in the US and work in hybrid or remote model.
Preferred locations for hybrid model - CT, RI, IL, AZ, TX
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years experience in SRE/Production/Integration Engineering.
- 5+ years experience with Kubernetes, Gateways like APIC, Apigee, Kong and APIM.
- 5+ years of experience in secure API integration patterns, including OAuth 2.0, JWT validation, IP filtering and Private endpoint.
- 5+ years of experience with traffic optimization techniques such as caching, throttling, and request/response transformation.
- 7+ years of experience defining and managing SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for API platform.
- 7+ years of experience in Incident response, Root cause analysis and Post-incident reviews/learning.
- 6+ years of experience in working cross‑functionally with development, security, and product teams.
- 6+ years of experience with proven incident response leadership.
- 3+ years of experience working in 24/7 /on call support.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing idempotent and fault-tolerant integration patterns.
- Experience with distributed tracing.
- Background in regulatory industries (FinTech/Healthcare/etc.).
- Hands on experience with APIC (IBM API Connect) or any API Management Platform
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to work with all levels
- Strong organizational, leadership and consensus building skills; ability to motivate and lead teams in matrix organization
- Experience in multiple technologies in stack (DataPower, ACE, MQ and Splunk) is a PLUS
- Healthcare experience or big box retail experience is a significant plus and will be given utmost consideration
- AIOps experience
Education
Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$118,450.00 - $260,590.00
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. 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.
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 our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits – investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:
Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.
No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.
Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.
For more information, visit https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 04/10/2026Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
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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.
