M

McKesson

Supplies medicines and technology to healthcare teams

Senior Specialist, Platform Operations & Observability

Site Reliability EngineeringUpdated on Nov 15
Full-timeMontreal, QC, Canada

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of professional experience in software engineering, site reliability engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or related technical roles.
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
  • Must be bilingual in French and English.
  • Experience supporting large-scale production environments and enterprise applications.
  • Hands-on experience with monitoring, observability, logging, alerting, and application performance monitoring tools.
  • Proven experience leading incident management and production support activities.
  • Experience performing root cause analysis and implementing preventive solutions.
  • Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery, automation, DevOps practices, and software delivery pipelines.
  • Experience with microservices, application programming interfaces, distributed systems, and cloud-based architectures.

Responsibilities

  • Lead monitoring and observability strategies across enterprise applications, platforms, and services.
  • Design, implement, and optimize dashboards, alerts, telemetry, logging, and performance monitoring solutions.
  • Drive incident management processes, major incident response, escalation coordination, service restoration activities, and post-incident reviews.
  • Conduct root cause analysis investigations and lead corrective and preventive action planning.
  • Partner with engineering teams to improve platform reliability, resilience, scalability, and operational readiness.
  • Lead change management reviews and promote safe deployment and release practices.
  • Execute regression and validation test plans following each production deployment.
  • Provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring to engineers while establishing engineering best practices.
  • Influence architecture, automation, continuous integration and continuous delivery, and operational excellence initiatives supporting enterprise platforms.
  • Lead production readiness reviews and operational acceptance activities before major releases.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Dotcom Monitor, or similar observability platforms.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and cloud platforms such as Azure.
  • Knowledge of Information Technology Infrastructure Library-aligned incident, problem, and change management practices.
  • Experience defining service-level agreements, mean time to recovery, and service reliability metrics.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership and mentorship of engineering teams.
  • Experience operating in regulated or highly compliant environments.
  • Experience driving platform modernization and operational excellence initiatives.
  • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, continuous improvement, and stakeholder communication skills.
  • Understanding and mastery of artificial intelligence tools such as Copilot and Rovo, as well as artificial intelligence agents.

About the Company

McKesson

Supplies medicines and technology to healthcare teams

McKesson distributes medicines and medical supplies to pharmacies, hospitals and other care providers, alongside services that connect drug manufacturers with patients. Its specialty businesses support community cancer care and clinical research, extending its work beyond moving products through warehouses. The company buys drugs and supplies from manufacturers for resale, while its software helps pharmacies manage inventory and healthcare teams secure insurance approval for prescriptions. It also sells practice management and patient support services to clinicians and drugmakers. McKesson traces its business roots to 1833 and is headquartered in Irving, Texas.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Irving, TX
Founded
1833

Recently Posted Jobs

Explore more opportunities at McKesson

See more jobs