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Compute Lead

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Success Profile

What makes a successful Compute Lead? Here are the top traits.

  • Conceptual
  • Proactive
  • Problem-Solver
  • Strategic
  • Technologically Savvy
  • Visual Thinker

Culture

Accomplish

Make an impact by using your problem-solving skills to assure maximum “uptime” for our products and a smooth experience for our customers, while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

Innovate

Monitor and analyze insights on the next steps of improving care through our evolving data and technology tools.

From Creating

solutions that help break down affordability barriers to improving distribution that helps maintain drug efficacy, you’ll play a key role in shaping a global industry.

Benefits

  • Coverage you can rely on

    • Medical, Dental, and Vision
    • Health Spending Accounts
    • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Benefits that go beyond your base pay

    • 401(k) (U.S.)
    • Pension (Canada)
    • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Support for total well-being

    • Mental Health Programs
    • Flexible Schedules
    • Paid Time Off
    • Wellness Program
    • Education Reimbursement
    • Volunteer Opportunities
    • Flexible Work Environment
  • A global leader of inclusion

    McKesson’s commitment to diversity and inclusion starts at the top. We have also been named a Best Employer for Diversity by Forbes.

Responsibility

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 Summary:

McKesson is seeking a skilled Compute Lead to design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure solutions on VMware, Azure, and GCP. As a key member of our team, you will ensure the security, scalability, and reliability of our cloud infrastructure to meet business requirements. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive technical innovation and business value and bring a strong background in IT Infrastructure Technology to this critical role. You will develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code environments and automate infrastructure provisioning and management. You will also ensure compliance and security of cloud infrastructure and data.

Key Responsibilities

  • Experienced in Hypervisor networking & security realm – specifically VMWare, NSX etc.
  • Orchestration / Automation skills: Infrastructure as Code, Scripting including Terraform, PowerShell for Windows, shell scripting for Red Hat Linux, Python, or Ruby
  • Configuration management development: Ansible, Terraform, or Puppet Enterprise
  • Security skills: Familiarity with both native and 3rd party mechanisms for securing data in public cloud platforms
  • Experienced in RESTful API based development background with ITSM integration.
  • Builds Infrastructure as Code environments for Public and Private Cloud environments.
  • Builds templates for virtual machines used for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
  • Troubleshoots advanced problems with both Production and Non-Production systems as necessary.
  • Monitor system performance and reliability over time.
  • Relevant experience as a systems administrator in a systems operation’s role
  • Ability to work with virtualization technology.
  • Experience in monitoring and auditing systems
  • Knowledge of networking concepts (e.g., DNS, TCP/IP, and firewalls)
  • Ability to translate architectural requirements.
  • Ability to deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems.
  • Knowhow to implement and control the flow of data, to and from a service provider.
  • Capability to select the appropriate services based on compute, data, or security requirements.
  • Ability to estimate usage costs and identify operational cost control mechanisms.
  • Capability to migrate on-premises workload to service providers.

Minimum Requirements:

  • Typically requires 10+ years of relevant experience.

Qualifications Required:

  • Verbal and written communication skills, attention to detail and interpersonal skills (Required).
  • Working knowledge of VMware, Azure & GCP.
  • Knowledge of IT infrastructure components (Required).
  • Experience in migrating infrastructure and OS, Win2k8-Win2016, Win 10.
  • Automation experience required.
  • 7+ years of experience in a highly technical professional environment
  • 3+ years of experience in delivering Software Defined Infrastructure, leveraging automation, orchestration, scripting technologies. 

Other Skills

  • ​Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and written with all levels within the organization
  • Ability to effectively explain technical concepts and adjust messaging based on the audience
  • Ability to influence through outstanding interpersonal skills, collaboration, and negotiation skills
  • Ability to work well within a team environment, as well as independently
  • Transforms the organization by leveraging and enabling automation, orchestration, continuous integration, and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
  • Functions as a technical change agent and influences product direction to increase IT business value and simplicity.
  • Serves as an advocate for business stakeholders into IT and helps evangelize the role of midrange technology back to the business provides well-considered counsel to leadership and other business service leaders on the strategic two to three-year technology roadmap
  • Presents innovative forward-thinking concepts and technology to improve business processes
  • Participates in IT strategic planning and budget planning efforts
  • Contributes to our positive, team-oriented culture by developing and maintaining cooperative relationships, facilitating the resolution of conflicts, and accepting and providing constructive feedback.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training.

Physical Requirements
General Office Demands
Travel = up to 20%

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

$127,900 - $213,100

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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