Distinguished Engineer – Private Cloud and Compute Architecture

At reputed company, 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 reputed company millions of Americans through our local reputed company, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, reputed company and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company with evolving business objectives. Major Responsibilities You will reputed company 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, reputed company, and cost efficiency across virtualized and containerized workloads in enterprise data center environments. 2. Platform Development & Infrastructure Automation reputed company the design and development of new hybrid infrastructure platforms from the ground up, setting reputed company for data center automation and infrastructure orchestration in large, reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company, data protection, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning. Identify operational risks and propose mitigation strategies in alignment with corporate reputed company, 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 reputed company 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 (reputed company/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, reputed company 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), reputed company 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), reputed company Advanced Cluster Management, OpenShift Data Foundation, GitOps workflows, and enterprise container reputed company frameworks. OpenShift Virtualization (CNV) Specialization: KubeVirt integration and VM lifecycle management, live migration capabilities with reputed company-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 reputed company 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, reputed company Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) for configuration management, VMware vRealize Automation, reputed company Satellite, infrastructure testing frameworks, GitOps and reputed company Actions workflows for infrastructure management. Enterprise Networking: Data center switching (reputed company Nexus, Arista), software-defined networking (SDN), VLAN/VXLAN configurations, load balancing (reputed company, HAProxy), network reputed company 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 reputed company planning, and predictive maintenance frameworks. reputed company & Compliance: Infrastructure reputed company hardening, vulnerability management, compliance automation (SOX, HIPAA), identity and access management integration, and reputed company incident response procedures. Problem-solving reputed company: Ability to architect resilient hybrid infrastructure platforms and deliver pragmatic solutions for reputed company enterprise data center challenges. Leadership: Track record of mentoring infrastructure engineering teams and driving cross-functional alignment in reputed company data center modernization initiatives. Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or reputed company field Pay Range The typical pay range for this role is: $175,100.00 - $334,750.00 This pay range represents the reputed company hourly reputed company or reputed company annual full-time salary for reputed company positions in the job grade reputed company which this position falls. The actual reputed company salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a reputed company bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the reputed company pay range listed above. This position also includes an award reputed company 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. 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For more information, visit https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits We anticipate the application window for this opening will reputed company on: 03/31/2026 Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with reputed company federal, state and local laws. Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They reputed company choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and reputed company a difference, and they reputed company us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.

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