CVS Health
Principal Cloud Architect
$144K–$288K
CO - Work from home · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years in technology; no alternative stated.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience.
About the job
Sets cloud architecture direction for Aetna Technology, defining secure, resilient, cost-aware reference architectures and infrastructure patterns across AWS, with GCP and Azure supported as needed.
What you'll do
- Own cloud reference architectures, multicloud workload-placement standards, and paved-road patterns; resolve complex design issues.
- Embed security, resilience, and FinOps principles in architecture and establish automated standards and guardrails.
- Guide infrastructure for AI capabilities and influence engineering teams, leaders, and cloud vendors through design authority.
What they ask for
- 12+ years in technology with deep, hands-on cloud architecture experience at Aetna Technology scale.
- Expert-level AWS architecture and working proficiency in GCP and Azure.
- Experience in healthcare, health insurance, or similarly regulated industries.
- Hands-on AI/ML platform infrastructure experience, including model serving, multi-model orchestration, and supporting compute/data patterns.
Nice to have
- Relevant cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Professional).
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated policy/guardrail enforcement.
Pay
$144,200.00 - $288,400.00 USD base annual full-time salary or base hourly rate
Tools
AWS, GCP, Azure
AI focus
Architects cloud infrastructure for AI capabilities, including compute, data access, model serving, and multi-model orchestration; partners on secure, cost-effective AI workloads.
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