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AWS Platform Technical Lead
We are looking for a Principal Engineer to lead our AWS Cloud Engineering team, owning the Amazon Web Services platform for the enterprise. This is a foundational platform role — you are the AWS technical authority, setting architectural direction,establishingengineering standards, and ensuring the platform is secure, scalable, and built to last.
You lead from the front. You design the systems others build on, mentor the engineers around you, and hold the line on quality and best practices. You bring deep AWSexpertise, a platform-owner mindset, and the leadership presence to align engineers and stakeholders around a shared technical vision. This role demands a cloud-first thinker who ensures cloud solutions meet business needs efficiently while prioritizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to create repeatable, automated deployments. You need to have a proventrack recordof architecting cloud environments from scratch.You'lldrive cloud transformation initiatives acrossall CSP’s with a focus on AWSplatforms while ensuring every design decision considers security, reliability, and scalability.
This is not a hands-off leadership role — you write code, review designs, and stay close to the work.
1. AWS Platform Ownership
Define andmaintainthe AWS Landing Zone — AWS Control Tower, Service Control Policies (SCPs), billing controls, and account vending patterns — as the foundation all product teams build on.
Serve as the final technical authority on AWS architecture decisions, reviewing designs for scalability, security, and operational excellence before they reach production.
2. Technical Team Leadership
Lead the AWS cloud engineering team as the technical anchor — set direction, conduct design reviews, unblock engineers, and drive delivery on platform initiatives.
Establish and enforce engineering standards:IaCpatterns, naming conventions, tagging strategy, branching models, and deployment practices.
Partner with architecture, security, operations, and business stakeholders to translate enterprise requirements into platform capabilities.
3. Infrastructure as Code & Automation
Design and own the Terraformframeworkfor all AWS resource provisioning — reusable modules, remote state management via S3/DynamoDB, pipeline integration, and policy guardrails.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using AWSCodePipeline,CodeBuild, GitHub Actions, and Amazon ECR for both platform infrastructure and application teams.
4. Networking, Security & Compliance
Architect andoperateAWS networking: VPC design, VPC Lattice, AWSPrivateLink, Transit Gateway, AWS WAF, Shield Advanced, NAT Gateway, and hybrid connectivity via AWS Direct Connect and Site-to-Site VPN.
Own the enterprise security posture on AWS — IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA), ECR Image Signing, AWS Secrets Manager, least-privilege IAM design, and SIEM/CSPM integration (AWS Security Hub, Prisma Cloud, or Wiz).
Drive continuous automated compliance across applicable regulatory frameworks (HIPAA, PCI, SOC 2)socontrols are enforced in real time, not discovered at audit.
Integrate observability — Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, Datadog, and SLO/SLI frameworks — as a first-classplatformcapability across all workloads.
5. Platform Strategy & Continuous Improvement
Incorporate FinOps practices across the platform: Reserved Instances, Savings Plans,rightsizing, AWS Budgets alerting, and cost allocation as engineering disciplines, not afterthoughts.
Proven ownership of an AWS Organization — account hierarchy, Billing, Service Control Policies, IAM, and multi-account governance in production.
Deep AWSexpertiserequiredacross:
Compute & Containers: EKS (Managed + Auto Mode), ECS/Fargate, EC2, Auto Scaling Groups
Networking: VPC, VPC Lattice, AWSPrivateLink, Transit Gateway, AWS WAF, Shield Advanced, Direct Connect
Data & Messaging: Amazon Redshift, SNS/SQS, S3, AWS Glue, Kinesis, Amazon MWAA
Security: IAM, IRSA, AWS Security Hub, ECR Image Signing, Secrets Manager, VPC Endpoints
IaC& Automation: Terraform (modules, remote state, OPA), AWSCodePipeline, AWS Config, CloudFormation
Observability: Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, Datadog, SLO/SLI design, PagerDuty integration
Languages: Python, Go, and Terraform
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent demonstrated experience.
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$144,200.00 - $288,400.00
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 offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 06/12/2026
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
