Principal Cloud Engineer

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 an accomplished Principal Cloud Storage Engineer to lead the design, engineering, and evolution of our private cloud storage platforms. This role will focus on large-scale storage architecture, data protection, cyber recovery, and resiliency technologies across complex enterprise environments. The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise in storage systems with strong leadership, architectural vision, and the ability to influence technical direction across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and engineer enterprise storage platforms that ensure data integrity, availability, security, and disaster recovery readiness
• Design and implement end-to-end storage solutions, including Software Defined Storage, SAN, NAS, and object storage across private cloud and data center environments
• Drive strategic technology decisions by evaluating emerging products, tools, and standards supporting storage, data protection, cloud, and compute platforms
• Lead infrastructure initiatives involving storage modernization, data protection, cyber recovery, data migration, and resilience engineering
• Develop and execute enterprise strategies for backup, recovery, cyber vaulting, and business continuity
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of storage architectures, configurations, policies, and operational procedures
• Partner closely with enterprise security teams to define and enforce controls protecting sensitive data from cyber threats and unauthorized access
• Stay current on emerging technologies in cloud storage, data protection, resiliency, and cybersecurity, recommending innovations to enhance performance and reduce cost
• Provide expert-level guidance for multi-vendor storage technologies, ensuring optimal lifecycle, supportability, and performance outcomes
• Mentor and guide engineering teams, fostering technical excellence and continuous improvement
• Serve as a senior technical advisor to application, operations, and leadership teams, influencing strategy for compute, storage, cloud, and data protection services
• Drive standardization, automation, and orchestration to optimize storage operations and improve infrastructure efficiency

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure engineering with deep expertise in cloud storage, data protection, and cyber recovery
• Expert-level knowledge of SAN, NAS, Object Storage, Software Define Storage, architectures and related ecosystem technologies
• Experience leading data center consolidation, large-scale data migrations, and cloud storage modernization efforts
• Strong multi-vendor management experience across major storage, backup, and cloud platform providers such as Dell PMAX, PFLEX, PowerScale, ObjectScale, Vast.
• Demonstrated expertise developing backup, recovery, and cyber resiliency strategies for mission-critical workloads
• Experience with virtualization platforms (e.g., OpenShift, VMware, Hyper-V); networking fundamentals a plus

Preferred Qualifications

• Solid experience with container platforms such as Rancher, Kubernetes as well as persistent storage
• Solid understanding of security frameworks, compliance requirements, and the integration of security controls within cloud storage environments
• Proven success designing and supporting large-scale infrastructure platforms with high reliability and performance expectations
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills.
• Outstanding communication and leadership capabilities, with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical teams

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (Highschool diploma plus 4 years relevant work experience)

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

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. 
 

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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.

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