Lead Cloud Engineer

McKesson; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 144,000 - 241,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare company as a Lead Cloud Engineer to drive cloud automation efforts. You'll lead the development and maintenance of cloud infrastructure, ensuring reliability and efficiency while collaborating closely with engineering teams to enhance the cloud experience for business applications. This position requires a strong background in cloud technologies and extensive professional IT experience.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience in IT infrastructure.
• 6+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure solutions.
• Strong background in multi-regional IaaS/PaaS solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of cloud automation capabilities.
• Design, build and maintain a public cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with architects to build infrastructure for applications.

Skills

Cloud Automation

Configuration Management

Deployment

DevOps

Microservices

Education

4-year degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care.

What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow’s health today, we want to hear from you.

We seek a talented and motivated Lead Cloud Engineer to be part of the Cloud Engineering team and accelerate our efforts to drive trust, agility, and adoption among McKesson business teams.

As a Lead Cloud Engineer, you will develop, operate, and lead multiple complex cloud automation features and components, including cloud adoption plans, cloud-native application blueprints, and cloud orchestration, and expose those services to business teams.

Position Description

In this role, you will lead the development of cloud automation capabilities, which will serve as a baseline for application development teams to improve the developer experience.

• Design, build and maintain a public cloud infrastructure and solutions to support the availability, orchestration, configuration, maintenance, and monitoring of cloud environments.

• Actively work with cloud and application architects to build cloud infrastructure for customer-facing applications and services.

• Build and maintain automation frameworks and tools to ensure high speed and low-cost provisioning, maximum uptime, and predictability while preventing outages and service interruptions or degradations.

• Communicate, coordinate, and collaborate with peers in Cloud Engineering and the groups in McKesson Technology Organization to plan and implement resource plans effectively across the team.

Minimum Requirements:

Typically requires 10+ years of professional experience and 6+ years leading the design, development, and delivery of Cloud infrastructure solutions for enterprise-scale app dev and integration projects.

Critical Skills

• Minimum of 10+ years of experience working in an IT (Information Technology) Infrastructure team in a Cloud, PaaS (Platform asa Service) environment and supporting mission-critical services.

• Minimum of 6+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting multi-regional IaaS/PaaS solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Experience in cloud automation, configuration management, and deployment of enterprise-scale infrastructures as code (IaC) using Ansible, Terraform, and Python.

• Experience with one or more container platforms, such as Kubernetes or Docker, is preferred.

• Proficient knowledge of the security processes, standards, and issues involved in multi-tier cloud or hybrid applications, including relevant data privacy and compliance requirements. Familiarity with principles of network, application, and information security.

• Understanding software engineering, including DevOps, CI/CD pipeline, test automation, environment, configuration automation, etc.

Additional Knowledge & Skills

• Experience with cloud-native architecture and Microservices with CI/CD pipelines is a plus.

• Agile methodology experience and working experience in a scrum team are preferred.

Education

4-year degree in computer science or related field or equivalent experience

We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, pleaseclick here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

$144,600 - $241,000

McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer

McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees and is committed to a diverse and inclusive environment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age or genetic information. For additional information on McKesson’s full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.

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