Senior Data Platform Engineer

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.

Position Summary:

As a Senior Data Platform Engineer, you will support the design, implementation, and maintenance of platform engineering databases.  You will ensure integrity and high availability of the database environments in your charge.  Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, on-prem VM and as-a-service cloud implementations, monitoring/alerting setup and admin, automation engineering, automation roadmap initiatives, application consulting, vulnerability management, compliance and remediation, performance tuning, version upgrades, database architecture, access methods and reviews, backup/recovery, vendor coordination/ticketing, and team mentoring and knowledge sharing.  

As part of the platform engineering team you will work with peer DBAs/Engineers, project teams, application contacts, vendors to support and maintain current implementations as well as new builds/requirements.  The role will assist in assuring the database implementations are secure, compliant, and adhere to minimum security requirements as set by CVS Health.  You will use your knowledge and experience to support application requirements and make recommendations for improving existing and future processes.  You will aid in reviewing new product enhancements, features, updates for future use and planning.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of combined experience in database administration and engineering

• 5+ years of DBA experience working on Linux/Unix systems and command line / shell scripting

• 5+ years of advanced knowledge of performance tuning, monitoring/alerting, observability, dashboarding

• 5+ years advanced knowledge of process/query analysis

• 5+ years advanced knowledge of maintenance routines, upgrades, patching

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with or a willingness to learn cloud database environments on Google and Azure

• Experience with or a willingness to learn automation technology (for example, Ansible and Terraform)

• Experience with or a willingness to learn deployments (CI/CD) with GHA, GitHub, Jenkins

• Ability to collaborate with DBA peers and mentor, work well in a team and independently

• Ability to work off-hours for application release support, Linux patching support, maintenance windows, and on call support

• Proactive, high attention to detail

• Healthcare IT experience

• Advanced problem solving and decision making skills

• Experience with DevOps principals

• Experience working in a complex and dynamic environment

Education

• Bachelor’s degree or, equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant 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 characterist