CVS Health

Staff Software Development Engineer – Automation Engineer

CVS Health

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: IdahoTexasUnited States

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Salary

💰 $106,605 - $284,280 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Serve as the technical owner for production support of automation and RPA solutions across critical business processes
  • Lead incident triage, root cause analysis, and permanent remediation for high-severity automation failures
  • Establish and enforce runbooks, support models, escalation paths, and on-call readiness for automation platforms
  • Proactively identify systemic issues and implement stability, resiliency, and performance improvements
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership for automation design, debugging, and optimization in production environments
  • Review automation code and configurations to ensure adherence to standards, security, and reliability best practices
  • Partner with development teams to ensure production readiness of new automations before release
  • Guide architectural decisions that reduce operational complexity and technical debt
  • Design and maintain monitoring, alerting, and health dashboards for automation platforms
  • Drive adoption of AIOps, SRE, and automation-first support practices where applicable
  • Improve observability by defining meaningful metrics such as uptime, failure rates, recovery times, and business impact
  • Act as a key escalation point for automation-related production issues
  • Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and vendor teams to resolve platform-level issues
  • Communicate incidents, risks, and remediation plans clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Mentor engineers and support analysts in automation support best practices

Requirements

  • Extensive experience in software development and production support for enterprise systems
  • Strong expertise in automation/RPA platforms, scripting, and debugging complex workflows
  • Proven ability to lead incident response and root cause analysis in high-availability environments
  • Deep understanding of SDLC, CI/CD, release management, and production readiness standards.
  • Experience supporting mission-critical automation in regulated or high-volume environments (Preferred)
  • Familiarity with monitoring tools, job schedulers, and orchestration platforms (Preferred)
  • Experience implementing resiliency patterns, failover strategies, and automation governance (Preferred)
  • Demonstrated leadership in driving operational maturity and continuous improvement (Preferred).
Benefits
  • Affordable medical plan options
  • 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions)
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Family leave
  • Dependent care resources
  • Colleague assistance programs
  • Tuition assistance
  • Retiree medical access.
  • Many other benefits depending on eligibility.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
automationRPAscriptingdebuggingSDLCCI/CDrelease managementresiliency patternsfailover strategiesautomation governance
Soft Skills
technical leadershipincident responseroot cause analysismentoringcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingcontinuous improvementoperational maturitystakeholder engagement