Principal Cloud Architect
CVS Health2 months ago
Base Salary
$144k - $288k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own cloud reference architectures for landing zones, account and subscription structures, networking, identity, and workload patterns.
- Define multicloud workload-placement strategy across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Design and maintain paved roads, golden patterns, modules, and guardrails for engineering teams.
- Resolve the most complex cloud architecture decisions and serve as the escalation point across the portfolio.
- Embed zero-trust, identity, network segmentation, resilience, failure-isolation, and blast-radius reduction patterns into architecture standards.
- Own cost architecture and apply FinOps principles to make cloud cost a first-class design constraint.
- Define infrastructure patterns for AI/ML capabilities, including compute, data access, model serving, and multi-model orchestration.
- Author cloud standards enforced through automated gates and paved-road defaults.
- Contribute to architecture governance, technology radar input, and design reviews.
- Evaluate emerging cloud-native services and recommend adoption across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Translate architecture trade-offs for senior technology leaders and peer architects.
- Coach Solution Architects and senior engineers through design reviews and system-level reasoning without direct reporting relationships.
- Partner with strategic cloud vendors and internal platform teams.
Requirements
- 12+ years of technology experience with deep, hands-on cloud architecture experience at Aetna Technology scale.
- Expert-level AWS architecture experience across compute, networking, identity, data, and security.
- Working proficiency in GCP and Azure for multicloud placement and design decisions.
- Demonstrated ownership of landing zones, reference architectures, and paved-road or golden-path patterns.
- Strong cloud security and zero-trust architecture knowledge, including identity, segmentation, and blast-radius reduction.
- Working knowledge of FinOps and cost-aware architecture with the ability to connect design decisions to dollar impact.
- Track record of driving technical outcomes through influence and design authority as an individual contributor.
- Experience in healthcare, health insurance, or similarly regulated industries.
- Hands-on AI/ML platform infrastructure experience, including model serving, multi-model orchestration, and supporting compute and data patterns.
- Relevant cloud certifications, such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated policy or guardrail enforcement.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Remote work from anywhere in the continental United States.
- Full-time position with medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other well-being resources based on eligibility.
- Eligible for CVS Health bonus, commission, or short-term incentive programs and an equity award target in addition to base pay.
- Applications are anticipated to remain open through December 31, 2026.
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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.