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.
Position Summary:
Mckesson\'s Sr. Cloud Platform Specialist design, build, configure, test, deploy,maintain, and support McKesson?s cloud services, platforms, and solutions. This is a hands-on, technically deep individual-contributor role that works directly in the Azure portal, applies a code- and automation-first approach, and uses AI and automation to improve reliability andeliminatemanual effort. In addition to the engineering foundation, this role serves as a connective layer for the Cloud Platform organization-consolidating technical information across engineering, operations, architecture, and FinOps into clear, decision-ready reporting, and ensuring initiatives remain governed, compliant, and audit-ready in a regulated healthcare environment.
Acts as a key contributor in a complex, business-critical environment; applies broad knowledge and strategic use of engineering concepts and practices to assignments of high complexity, including problems that may be undefined with many unknowns.
Design, Build & Automate Solutions
Works hands-on in the Azure portal and across cloud platform services to design, configure, build, andoperatethe environment directly.
Applies a code- and automation-first approach, using infrastructure-as-code, scripting, and CI/CD to build repeatable, reliable, and secure solutions (e.g., Terraform, Bicep/ARM, PowerShell, Python).
Ensures adherence to enterprise policies, principles, cyber security protocols, and guardrails, including code documentation and source-control versioning.
Evaluate & Contextualize Requirements
Translates business and technical requirements into technical specifications, user stories, and solution designs, anddeterminestheir impact on existing architecture and processes.
Consolidatesand contextualizes requirements across multiple systems, platforms, and business domains, ensuring alignment with technical, security, and compliance standards.
Ensure Alignment with Governance & Compliance
Establishes andmaintainsgovernance, controls, and traceability for platform initiatives so that documentation, decisions, and approvals are complete and auditable.
Supports compliance and audit readiness by tracking controls, evidence, access, and policy adherence across the cloud platform environment.
Ensures technical standards, runbooks, and automation are current, consistent, and applied across the organization.
Monitor, Tune & Report Performance
Analyzes logs and metrics,monitorsperformance, andidentifiesopportunities for optimization, reliability, and cost efficiency.
Consolidatesinformation across engineering, operations, architecture, and FinOps into executive-ready reporting, dashboards, anda single sourceof truth.
Participate in Planning & Be an Effective Team Player
Acts asa central pointof coordination that keeps cross-functional platform teams aligned on priorities, commitments, dependencies, and timelines.
Contributes to short- and long-term planning with service leaders and delivery managers, providing input on options, risk, and cost/benefit trade-offs.
Facilitates technical working sessions and reviews, capturing decisions, risks, and action items and driving them to closure.
Continuously Learn & Develop
Aligned to the Engineering Job Family competency model; expectedproficiencyat the P4 (Sr. Engineer) level.
Digital Acumen - Leading: deep, hands-on fluency with cloud platforms, automation, and AI-enabled tooling.
Minimum Education & Experience
Bachelor?s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Required Technical Skills
Hands-onproficiencynavigating and administering the Azure portal (and/or AWS), including core services, operations, and cost/consumption concepts.
Code- and automation-first mindset with proven experience in infrastructure-as-code, scripting, and automation (e.g., Terraform, Bicep/ARM, PowerShell, Python).
Practical experience applying AI and automation (e.g., AIOps, intelligent automation, or ML-enabled tooling) to operational or engineering problems.
Proficiencywith reporting and collaboration tools such as Power BI, Excel, SharePoint/Confluence, and Azure DevOps or Jira.
Comfortable creating clear presentations and technical diagrams (e.g., PowerPoint, Visio, or similar) to communicate concepts and workingproficiency, not necessarily expert level.
Exposure tocompliance frameworks such as SOX, HITRUST, SOC 2, or HIPAA in healthcare or regulated industries.
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
Our Base Pay Range for this position
$99,100 - $132,100
McKesson has become aware of online recruiting-related scams in which individuals who are not affiliated with or authorized by McKesson are using McKesson?s (or affiliated entities, like CoverMyMeds or RxCrossroads) name in fraudulent emails, job postings or social media messages. In light of these scams, please bear the following in mind:
McKesson Talent Advisors will never solicit money or credit card information in connection with a McKesson job application.
McKesson Talent Advisors do not communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or using email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail. Note that McKesson does rely on a virtual assistant (Gia) for certain recruiting-related communications with candidates.
McKesson job postings are posted on our career site: .
McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer
McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other legally protected category. For additional information on McKesson?s full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our page.
McKesson is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including job seekers with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us by sending an email to (United States) or (Canada) . Resumes or CVs submitted to this email box will not be accepted.
Join us at McKesson!
Never miss an opportunity! Create an alert based on the job you applied for.
