Senior Cloud Engineer

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.

Key Responsibilities

GCP Foundation, Landing Zones & Infrastructure-as-Code

• Cloud Architecture & Automation: Design, build, and maintain enterprise GCP infrastructure using Terraform/Terragrunt, enforcing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and GitOps practices for all cloud environments.
• Landing Zone Governance: Own the configuration and security baseline of GCP Organization structures, Projects, Folders, Resource Hierarchies, and IAM roles/permissions using least-privilege principles.
• Network & Hybrid Connectivity: Configure and maintain GCP Shared VPCs, VPC Service Controls (VPC-SC), Cloud Interconnect, Cloud VPN, Cloud DNS, Firewall Rules, and load balancers to support secure, low-latency hybrid connectivity between GCP services, Apigee X, and Oracle Exadata / JDE ERP environments.

Apigee X & Oracle Exadata / JDE ERP Integration Support

• Apigee X Platform Engineering: Provision, configure, and maintain Apigee X runtime environments, API gateways, PSC (Private Service Connect) attachments, and load balancers in accordance with enterprise security baselines.
• Oracle Exadata & JDE Interconnect: Engineer and maintain high-performance, resilient hybrid network topology (Cloud Interconnect/Partner Interconnect) linking GCP applications and Apigee gateways directly to Oracle Exadata database systems and JDE backend services.
• API Security & Traffic Controls: Work alongside Integration Architects to enforce mTLS, VPC Service Controls, rate limiting, and secure endpoints across Apigee X, GCP microservices, and Exadata/JDE integration boundaries.

Containerization, Compute & Serverless

• GKE & Kubernetes Management: Deploy, secure, and operate Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters powering enterprise Spring Boot microservices, AI workloads, and internal developer platforms.
• Serverless Execution: Configure and support serverless workloads using Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, and App Engine, optimizing performance and latency for transactional database and API flows.
• Platform Reliability: Build automated deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions or Cloud Build to support seamless infrastructure provisioning and application cutovers.

FinOps & Cloud Cost Optimization

• Cost Allocation & Visibility: Establish FinOps standards across GCP projects, implementing label/tagging enforcement, budget alerts, and showback/chargeback reporting for business units.
• Resource Tuning: Analyze resource utilization (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud SQL, BigQuery) to right-size instances, optimize committed use discounts (CUDs), and eliminate unused infrastructure.

Security, Compliance & Observability

• Cloud Security Posture: Implement CISO security standards, including GCP Secret Manager, KMS, mTLS, SAST/DAST container vulnerability scanning, and binary authorization.
• Observability Baseline: Build and maintain centralized logging, monitoring, and distributed tracing across all GCP environments, Apigee instances, and Exadata/JDE connectivity paths using Google Cloud Operations Suite (Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Trace).

Minimum Requirements

• Experience: 10+ years of enterprise IT/infrastructure experience, with at least 4+ years dedicated to designing, engineering, and operating production environments on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Apigee & Database/ERP Interconnect: Hands-on experience provisioning and supporting Apigee X / Apigee Edge environments and managing hybrid interconnectivity to high-performance database infrastructure (Oracle Exadata) and enterprise ERP systems (JD Edwards).
• IaC & Automation Mastery: Expert-level hands-on skills with Terraform, Git, and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, or GitLab CI).
• Kubernetes & Containers: Strong experience deploying and managing production Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters and Docker containerized applications.
• GCP Networking & Security: Deep understanding of GCP VPC networking, Shared VPCs, Private Service Connect (PSC), VPC Service Controls, Cloud Interconnect, IAM, and GCP security controls.
• Scripting: Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go for cloud automation and tooling development.
• FinOps Understanding: Practical experience implementing cloud cost optimization, quota management, and resource right-sizing strategies.

Technical Skills

• Google Cloud Services: GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, VPC Service Controls, Secret Manager, IAM, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Trace.
• API Management & Hybrid Database/ERP: Apigee X, Apigee Edge, Private Service Connect (PSC), Cloud Interconnect, Oracle Exadata database connectivity, JD Edwards (JDE) hybrid interconnectivity.
• Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Networking & Security: Shared VPC, Cloud VPN, Cloud Interconnect, Firewalls, mTLS, OAuth 2.0, KMS, Least Privilege IAM.
• CI/CD & DevOps: GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS), Git, Linux/Unix administration.
• Scripting & Tooling: Python, Bash, Go, gcloud CLI.

Certifications & Education

• Certifications:
• Google Professional Cloud Architect or Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer (required or to be obtained within 6 months).
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

About McKesson Medical-Surgical

McKesson Medical-Surgical (MMS), which is expected to become Wellverse in early 2027, is a subsidiary and publicly reported segment of the McKesson Corporation. MMS distributes medical-surgical supplies, pharmaceuticals, diagnostic equipment and supplies, along with other solutions and services to virtually every type of healthcare setting and provider outside of the traditional hospital. These markets – often referred to as Alternate Care or Non-Acute Care – include physician offices, surgery centers, long-term care providers, laboratories, home health and hospice agencies, health systems, government facilities and online marketplaces and retailers.

Alternate Care markets are growing rapidly and MMS is proud to be a leader in this space. With a team of approximately 8,000 employees, a network of 15 distribution centers and approximately 900 delivery vehicles, we collaborate with more than 2,200 leading manufacturers and serve over 200,000 customer accounts across the U.S. Our catalog includes more than 270,000 SKUs of branded and private-label medical-surgical products – from bandages to specialty pharmaceuticals and COVID-19 tests.

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.

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