Software Engineer - SRE, Retail & Pharmacy
CVS Health1 day ago
Woonsocket, RI, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$72k - $159k/yr
Responsibilities
- Implement dashboards, alerting, and distributed-system observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger, and OpenTelemetry.
- Contribute to SLI and SLO definition, alert tuning, reliability reviews, performance testing, and reliability audits.
- Participate in on-call rotations, triage alerts, execute incident runbooks, document incidents, and complete postmortem action items.
- Improve runbooks, monitoring, alerting, and operational processes based on incident findings.
- Write automation in Python, Bash, or Go to eliminate recurring manual operational work and track toil reduction.
- Contribute to CI/CD and GitOps improvements using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and Helm.
- Apply cloud-native deployment and infrastructure-as-code practices using Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, or Ansible.
- Collaborate with development teams on instrumentation, observability, deployment reliability, and service ownership.
Requirements
- At least two years of experience in SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, or related technology roles with production-systems responsibility.
- At least two years of experience delivering software in large-scale distributed environments and applying reliability and resilience concepts.
- At least one year of production-quality programming experience with Python, Go, Bash, or Java.
- At least one year of hands-on experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Practical experience with observability or monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, Datadog, or Dynatrace.
- Foundational experience with Kubernetes and Docker, plus experience with AI-assisted tooling and development.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Preferred qualifications include distributed-fleet, retail, pharmacy, healthcare, incident-management, CI/CD, service-mesh, infrastructure-as-code, or edge-computing experience.
Benefits
- Full-time position with an anticipated schedule of 40 hours per week.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other eligible benefits.
- Eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission, or short-term incentive program in addition to base pay.
- The application window is anticipated to close on September 18, 2026.
Tech Stack
AnsibleAWSAzureBashCircleCIDatadogDockerGitHub ActionsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaHelmIstioJavaJenkinsKubernetesPrometheusPythonSplunkTerraform
Categories
Site Reliability
About CVS Health
CVS Health is a U.S. health care company that operates thousands of retail pharmacies, runs the CVS Caremark pharmacy benefits manager, and owns the Aetna health insurance business. It sells prescriptions, retail health goods, and insurance plans, and provides primary and urgent care through MinuteClinic and other services for consumers, employers, and government programs. Founded in 1963 and headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, it is a public company traded on the NYSE.