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CVS Health

Senior Database Engineer

CVS Health, Cumberland, Rhode Island, us, 02864

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Overview

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. We are seeking a Senior Database Engineer with a strong background in relational and NoSQL databases. This role involves developing tools for self-service capabilities, collaborating with engineering teams, and enhancing our database infrastructure. The Senior Database Engineer will collaborate with architectures and application teams to design and implement scalable and reliable database solutions including high availability, backup and recovery strategies. The right candidate will write code to capture database performance and create tools and dashboards to provide actionable insight into that data and implement performance enhancements for database systems. The role will conduct proofs of concept/technology assessments on emerging technologies and help create product roadmaps.

Responsibilities

Develop and implement automation scripts, tools, and workflows to streamline database provisioning, configuration, patching and upgrades, maintenance, and monitoring

Collaborate with Enterprise Security to implement and maintain security measures, access controls, and compliance standards to protect sensitive data

Effectively communicate technical ideas and produce technical proposals, best practices, design specs, architecture diagrams, and presentations

Participate in L3/L4 level triage activities, incident response calls and handle on-call escalations

Train and mentor other database engineers

Required Qualifications

5+ years of experience in database design and automation

5+ years of progressive experience in database engineering and support

5+ years of experience with Oracle RDBMS technologies

5+ years of experience with performance tuning

3+ years of experience with data replication technologies like GoldenGate/STRIIM

3+ years of experience developing with Shell scripts, Python scripts, Jenkins, GitHub Actions CI/CD Pipelines

3+ years of experience deploying cloud-native databases in GCP or Azure

3+ years of experience deploying and managing Elastic Clusters on Kubernetes

3+ years of experience writing SQL queries for root cause analysis and tuning

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working as a Database Engineer in large-scale, fast-paced environments with OLTP systems

Healthcare experience

Experience with deployment automation/configuration management tools such as Java, TypeScript, GitHub Actions, Temporal, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform

Experience deploying cloud-native databases in GCP, AWS, or Azure

Experience with non-relational databases such as MongoDB and Cosmos DB

Knowledge of additional DB technologies such as MySQL and PostgreSQL

Cloud and database certifications

Strong problem-solving skills and a results-oriented attitude

Ability to manage multiple projects independently

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Experience with in-memory databases such as Redis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field

Anticipated Weekly Hours 40

Time Type Full time

Pay Range The Typical Pay Range For This Role Is $101,970.00 - $203,940.00

This pay range represents the base salary for all positions in this job grade. The actual base salary offer will depend on 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.

Benefits 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.

Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including company matching), and an employee stock purchase plan

No-cost wellness programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching

Paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, tuition assistance, and other benefits depending on eligibility

For more information, visit https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 11/07/2025

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.

Seniority level Mid-Senior level

Employment type Full-time

Job function Information Technology

Industries Hospitals and Health Care

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