Lead Cloud Engineer

Company: MCKESSON
Location: Irving
Posted on: June 4, 2025

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 as a 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, please click 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.
                        
                        Join us at McKesson!

Keywords: MCKESSON, The Colony , Lead Cloud Engineer, Engineering , Irving, Texas