Principal Cloud Architect

McKesson; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 165,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare company is seeking a Principal Cloud Architect to enhance their cloud infrastructure. The role involves designing solutions that ensure security, scalability, and reliability while collaborating with various teams to implement innovative cloud deployments. Candidates should have extensive experience in cloud architecture and be well-versed in Azure and DevOps methodologies.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Cloud Architecture and/or relevant industry experience.
• Solid cloud architecture design and implementation experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with DevOps and Agile methodology practices.

Responsibilities

• Design appropriate cloud solutions based on business and technical requirements.
• Develop high-level architecture for cloud-based applications.
• Provide guidance on cloud architecture, performance, and security.

Skills

Cloud Architecture Design

Microservices-based Architectures

DevOps

Cloud Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or related field

Tools

Azure

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Job description

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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.

Job Title: Principal Cloud Architect

McKesson is looking for a talented and motivated Principal Cloud Architect to join our Enterprise Cloud Platform Technologies Services team and help us accelerate our cloud initiatives to drive trust, agility, and cloud adoption among McKesson. You will be responsible for ensuring that our cloud infrastructure meets the highest performance, security, scalability, and reliability standards. You will also work closely with other architects, developers, and engineers to deliver innovative, secure, cost-effective cloud solutions.

Starting Pay is between $165,100.00 to $220,000.00 depending on experience

Responsibilities:

• Understand the organization's business and technical requirements to design appropriate cloud solutions.
• Develop high-level architecture and system design for cloud-based applications and services.
• Provide guidance and best practices on cloud architecture, security, performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders, including architects, developers, operations teams, and business leaders, to ensure alignment with organizational goals.
• Conduct technical assessments and optimization reviews for existing and new cloud deployments.
• Provide clear documentation of cloud architectures and design decisions.
• Stay updated on the latest trends and technologies in the cloud domain and provide recommendations for improvement and innovation.
  
  
  

Qualifications/Critical Skills:

• 10+ years of Cloud Architecture and/or relevant industry experience.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Solid cloud architecture design and implementation experience with Microsoft Azure and hybrid cloud environments
• Knowledge of cloud design patterns and best practices for supporting cloud-based production workloads with an understanding of security, governance, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Experience in designing microservices-based architectures or other cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with Azurelanding zone architectures, cloud networking, security best practices, IAM,delivery pipelines, secrets management, FinOps, and observability.
• Experience with Azure Kubernetes (AKS) and containerization technology.
• Experience withDevOpsand Agile methodology practices.
• Experience in cloud automation, configuration management, and deployment of enterprise-scale infrastructures as code (IaC) using Ansible, Terraform, and Python.
  
  
  

Physical Requirements: General Office Demands

Candidate must be authorized to work in the U.S, now or in the future, without the support from McKesson.

Relocation is NOT budgeted for this position.

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, please click here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

$170,300 - $283,800

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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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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