Senior Site Reliability 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

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the stability, reliability, and performance of critical applications supporting our Third-Party Administrator (TPA) and Payer Solutions Department. The Senior Site Reliability Engineer sits at the intersection of software engineering, operations, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) practices, with a strong emphasis on Application Performance Monitoring (APM), observability, and continuous improvement of production systems. In this role, you will design and implement scalable, resilient solutions; build and maintain observability capabilities; drive incident reduction; and partner closely with engineering, infrastructure, and support teams to improve end‑to‑end reliability and customer experience.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Application Performance Monitoring and Observability: Lead the design and implementation of end‑to‑end observability for applications, including metrics, logs, traces, and synthetic monitoring.
• Operations and Site Reliability Engineering: Own the reliability, availability, and performance of key applications and services in production environments.
• Engineering and Continuous Improvement: Collaborate with application development teams to design performant, resilient architectures and patterns.
• Collaboration and Leadership: Serve as a technical leader and subject matter expert for APM, SRE, and observability within the team and broader department.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, site reliability engineering, or a closely related discipline.
• 1+ years of strong hands‑on experience with AppDynamics in production environments (dashboards, health rules, transaction detection, alerting, baselining, war‑room usage).
• 1+ years of practical experience with SRE practices: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident response, post‑incident reviews, and runbooks.
• 1+ years of experience with observability tooling and standards, including Open Telemetry (tracing, metrics, logging) and integration into APM/monitoring platforms.
• 1+ years of utilization of AI coding assistants such as GHCP, Windsurf, or Cursor for code analysis and reverse engineering legacy applications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong hands‑on experience with AppDynamics in production environments (dashboards, health rules, transaction detection, alerting, baselining, war‑room usage).
• Practical experience with SRE practices: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident response, post‑incident reviews, and runbooks.
• Experience with observability tooling and standards, including Open Telemetry (tracing, metrics, logging) and integration into APM/monitoring platforms.
• Utilization of AI coding assistants such as GHCP, Windsurf, or Cursor for code analysis and reverse engineering legacy applications.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited university or equivalent work experience (High School Diploma/GED + 4 years relevant experience).

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Pay Range

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