Distinguished Engineer – Private Cloud And Compute Architecture

Distinguished Engineer Specializing In Data Center Infrastructure And Hybrid Compute/Store Platforms

At CVS Health, we're building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nation's leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

We are recruiting for a Distinguished Engineer specializing in Data Center Infrastructure and Hybrid Compute/Store Platforms. In this high-impact role, you will lead the architecture and design of cutting-edge data center compute, storage, BMaaS, and IaaS platforms that underpin our mission-critical healthcare and retail operations. This role demands a systems thinker who thrives in large-scale enterprise data center environments, prioritizes cohesive infrastructure resilience and operational excellence over individual technology deployments. You need to have a proven track record of building enterprise data center compute platforms from scratch. You'll drive the evolution of hybrid infrastructure spanning traditional virtualization and modern container orchestration while ensuring seamless workload management, automation at scale, and platform reliability across VMware vSphere, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and enterprise storage systems. You will serve as a thought leader and mentor for infrastructure teams, ensuring our data center compute strategy is robust, innovative, and aligned with evolving business objectives.

Major Responsibilities

You will make an impact by:

1. Strategic Infrastructure Architecture & Design

• Drive the end-to-end architecture for highly scalable, resilient data center compute and storage platforms spanning VMware virtualization, Kubernetes orchestration, OpenShift container and virtualization platforms, ensuring alignment with business goals and operational requirements.
• Partner with other Distinguished Engineers, designers, and executive leadership to shape the long-term infrastructure modernization roadmap, with specific milestones for hybrid cloud integration and data center optimization initiatives.
• Champion best practices for high-availability, performance optimization, security, and cost efficiency across virtualized and containerized workloads in enterprise data center environments.

2. Platform Development & Infrastructure Automation

• Oversee the design and development of new hybrid infrastructure platforms from the ground up, setting the standard for data center automation and infrastructure orchestration in large, complex enterprises.
• Implement robust infrastructure-as-code frameworks, automated provisioning workflows, and self-service platforms for seamless scaling of compute, storage, and containerized services.
• Foster an engineering culture that values infrastructure reliability, operational excellence, and continuous improvement in data center operations.

3. Hybrid Workload Management & Emerging Technologies

• Provide thought leadership on how traditional virtualization and modern containerization create complementary infrastructure outcomes, including workload placement strategies, resource optimization, and migration patterns between platforms.
• Understand how to modernize legacy data center workloads through strategic virtualization and containerization approaches while maintaining business continuity.
• Evaluate and recommend emerging data center technologies (e.g., software-defined storage, edge computing, etc.) and guide their integration into the broader infrastructure stack.

4. Cross-Functional Leadership & Mentoring

• Serve as a key technical advisor for executive leadership, translating complex infrastructure architectural decisions into clear business value propositions and operational efficiency gains.
• Mentor senior infrastructure engineers, storage specialists, and platform teams, elevating the organization's overall data center and hybrid platform proficiency.
• Cultivate a strong, collaborative culture, promoting open communication, knowledge sharing, and infrastructure innovation.

5. Enterprise Governance & Operations Excellence

• Ensure adherence to enterprise infrastructure standards, regulatory compliance, and industry best practices, advocating secure-by-design principles at every stage of the infrastructure lifecycle.
• Guide compliance with internal governance frameworks for infrastructure security, data protection, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.
• Identify operational risks and propose mitigation strategies in alignment with corporate security, compliance, and service level requirements.

Qualifications

The candidate will be a self-starter and be able to be highly productive in a dynamic, collaborative environment. This position offers broad exposure to all aspects of enterprise data center infrastructure, as well as significant interaction with business leaders. The candidate will be expected to have the following key attributes:

• 12+ years in enterprise data center compute and infrastructure with 8+ years in large-scale storage, virtualization, and container environments.

• Proven experience building data center platforms and hybrid infrastructure from scratch (not just maintaining existing deployments).

Deep Expertise In

• IaaS Platform Design: Ground-up design of Infrastructure-as-a-Service platforms including multi-tenant resource provisioning APIs, self-service portals with quota management and ReBAC integration, automated infrastructure lifecycle management (provision/scale/terminate/decommission), chargeback and metering systems with cost allocation, intelligent resource scheduling algorithms across compute/storage/network, template catalogs and golden image management with versioning, network automation (VLAN/VXLAN provisioning, SDN integration), storage orchestration (block/file/object provisioning), identity federation (LDAP/AD/SAML/OAuth integration), workflow orchestration engines, comprehensive audit logging with compliance reporting, and API-driven infrastructure management with RESTful service interfaces.
• Enterprise Storage Systems: SAN/NAS architectures, storage virtualization (i.e. Dell EMC PowerStore/PowerScale/PowerFlex, Pure Storage FlashArray, etc.), storage tiering strategies, data deduplication and compression, and storage performance optimization.
• Kubernetes Core Platform: Container runtimes (containerd, CRI-O), CNI networking (Calico, Cilium), CSI storage integration, custom resource definitions (CRDs), operators, and multi-cluster management across data center environments.
• OpenShift Enterprise Platform: OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), OpenShift Virtualization (CNV), Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management, OpenShift Data Foundation, GitOps workflows, and enterprise container security frameworks.
• OpenShift Virtualization (CNV) Specialization: KubeVirt integration and VM lifecycle management, live migration capabilities with zero-downtime workload movement, virtctl CLI operations and VM management automation, DataVolumes and CDI (Containerized Data Importer) for VM disk management, VM templates and golden images with version control, SR-IOV and GPU passthrough for high-performance workloads, hybrid workload orchestration mixing VMs and containers on unified platform, storage integration with OpenShift Data Foundation, network virtualization with OVN-Kubernetes, and VM backup/restore strategies integrated with enterprise data protection frameworks.
• VMware vSphere Platform: vCenter Server architecture, ESXi hypervisor optimization, vSAN hyper-converged storage, NSX-T micro-segmentation and networking, and vRealize Suite (Automation, Operations, Log Insight).
• Data Center Compute Infrastructure: Server hardware optimization, CPU and memory resource management, GPU integration for AI/ML workloads, bare-metal provisioning, iDRAC and IPMI/BMC management, and hardware lifecycle automation.
• Infrastructure Automation & Orchestration: Terraform for infrastructure provisioning, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) for configuration management, VMware vRealize Automation, Red Hat Satellite, infrastructure testing frameworks, GitOps and GitHub Actions workflows for infrastructure management.
• Enterprise Networking: Data center switching (Cisco Nexus, Arista), software-defined networking (SDN), VLAN/VXLAN configurations, load balancing (F5, HAProxy), network security policies, and hybrid cloud connectivity.
• Storage Networking & Protocols: Fibre Channel SAN, iSCSI, NFS, SMB/CIFS, storage multipathing, zoning configurations, and storage network performance tuning.
• Backup & Disaster Recovery: Veeam Backup & Replication, Velero for Kubernetes, VMware vSphere Replication, storage snapshots, cross-site replication, and automated disaster recovery testing.
• Monitoring & Performance Management: VMware vRealize Operations, Prometheus for Kubernetes monitoring, storage performance analytics, infrastructure capacity planning, and predictive maintenance frameworks.
• Security & Compliance: Infrastructure security hardening, vulnerability management, compliance automation (SOX, HIPAA), identity and access management integration, and security incident response procedures.
• Problem-solving mindset: Ability to architect resilient hybrid infrastructure platforms and deliver pragmatic solutions for complex enterprise