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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.
Position Summary:If you're eager to make a real impact in the health care industry through your own meaningful contributions, explore a role in technology with CVS Health. Our journey calls for technical innovators and visionaries: come help us pave the way in transforming pharmacy prior authorization product and solutions for CAS (Clinical Authorization System).
As Senior Manager, DevSecOps & Site Reliability (SRE), you will lead DevSecOps and SRE practices for CAS Engineering, including release management for 7+ scrum teams. You will drive hybrid operations (on-prem now; Azure/Google Cloud Platform later), elevate security, reliability, and speed-to-market, and advance CI/CD, TDD, observability, immutable logging, and zero-trust. RTE experience is a strong plus.
**We prefer hybrid onsite at one of our hubs like Buffalo Grove, IL, Scottsdale, AZ, Richardson,TX. We may consider remote for the right person.
In this role, you will:
- Architect and implement DevSecOps and SRE practices for hybrid environments (on-prem and cloud).
- Define and execute DevSecOps strategy, including policy, standards, and guardrails.
- Oversee CI/CD pipelines, security automation, and incident management; build/operate pipelines with integrated quality gates, code scanning (Sonar), secrets management, SBOM, and IaC.
- Lead SRE functions: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, resilience engineering, performance, and capacity planning.
- Deploy, manage, and optimize observability and event management platforms; stand up metrics, tracing, logging, and immutable logging for governance and audits.
- Coordinate releases across 7+ scrum teams, aligning regression/UAT calendars and compliance gates; lead and govern change/release management processes, including CAB participation and risk mitigation.
- Champion security-by-design: threat modeling, shift-left testing, dependency hygiene, data segmentation, and zero-trust.
- Drive incident/problem management, defect remediation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Collaborate with product, architecture, platform, and cross-functional teams on modernization, cloud migration to Azure/Google Cloud Platform, and cost controls; provide executive-level reporting.
- Manage vendor/contractor teams and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
- Champion automation and platform engineering for operational efficiency.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation and generate operational reports.
- Mentor and coach DevSecOps/SRE engineers; foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and professional growth.
- Facilitate program-level ceremonies; RTE experience (PI planning) is beneficial.
- Contribute to long-term planning, technology adoption strategies, and innovation initiatives to drive platform modernization and transformation.
Required Qualifications: - 7+ years of DevSecOps & SRE leadership in hybrid enterprise environments.
- Proven release management for multi-team agile trains (7+ teams).
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD (GitHub/ADO), artifact management, code scanning, and observability stacks.
- Deep knowledge of security frameworks and compliance in healthcare-grade systems.
- Strong coaching, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills.
- 3+ years in change/release management, incident/problem management, and ITIL frameworks.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and observability tools.
- Experience managing vendor/contractor teams.
Preferred Qualifications: - Cloud transformation delivery on Azure/Google Cloud Platform; FinOps/SRE capacity planning.
- RTE experience (PI planning).
- Certifications: SAFe (RTE/SM), CKA/CKAD, AZ-400, Google Cloud Platform Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, CISSP/CCSP.
- Domain experience in Pharmacy Benefit Management, Health Insurance, Clinical Utilization Management Products, or Prior Authorization.
- Certifications: ITIL 4 Practitioner, DevOps Institute Observability/SRE Foundation, ServiceNow CIS-Event Management, xMatters Integrator.
- Experience in healthcare, retail, or pharmacy environments.
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements (HIPAA, PCI DSS, FedRAMP).
Education:- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, or related field required.
- Master's Degree preferred.
Culture Fit:- Mission-aligned engineering
- Cloud-native acceleration
- Empowered team culture
- Outcome-driven delivery
- Quality by design
- Seamless collaboration
- Constructive challenge
- Sustainable work norms
- Operational rigor
- Mutual respect and continuous learning
- Leadership pillars: application ownership, people leadership through structured 1:1s, incremental transformation, bias for action, crisp business communication.
Pay RangeThe typical pay range for this role is:
$118,450.00 - $236,900.00
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 peopleWe take pride in our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits - investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:
- Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.
- No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.
- Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.
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We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 03/30/2026
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
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