McKesson

McKesson

Director of Cloud & Kubernetes Platform

CAN, ON, Mississauga · Director

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About the role

  • Your engineering leadership will be instrumental in designing foundational platform capabilities, developer experiences, and self-service infrastructure that accelerate the entire engineering organization.
  • Define and execute a forward-looking cloud and Kubernetes platform engineering strategy aligned with enterprise goals and digital transformation initiatives.
  • Translate long-term platform vision into prioritized, actionable engineering workstreams.

Responsibilities

  • Own P&L responsibility, technology budget management, and ROI optimization for enterprise platform investments across Azure, GCP, and AWS.
  • Develop and implement platform engineering roadmaps that align business goals with technical execution plans.
  • Lead the development of strategic platform roadmaps to drive engineering velocity, scalability, and resilience.
  • Develop our next-generation cloud-native platforms spanning Azure, GCP, and AWS enabling scalable, portable workloads across a unified multi-cloud estate.
  • Design and implement cloud-specific platform capabilities: AWS landing zones using Control Tower and Organizations; Azure platform engineering with Management Groups, Policy, and Blueprints; GCP platform design leveraging Organization Policies, Shared VPC, and Resource Hierarchy.
  • Build and govern a consistent cloud abstraction layer that normalizes networking, IAM, secrets management, and compute across all three hyperscalers.
  • Lead the engineering of cloud-native managed Kubernetes services Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, and Google GKE into a cohesive, centrally governed multi-cluster platform.
  • Design and build internal developer platforms (IDPs) that deliver self-service cloud provisioning, improving developer productivity and time-to-deploy across all cloud environments.
  • Lead the engineering of Infrastructure-as-Code ( IaC ) frameworks, CI/CD platform toolchains, and automation pipelines to support rapid, repeatable delivery across clouds.
  • Drive platform reliability engineering through proactive design, SLO-based engineering, error budgets, and scalable capacity planning.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 15+ years in engineering, including 6+ years in cloud platform or infrastructure engineering leadership roles.
  • Demonstrated experience leading large-scale cloud platform engineering programs and Kubernetes-based transformations.

Nice to have

  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with both technical teams and senior executives.

Skills

  • Director, Cloud & Kubernetes Platform Engineering
  • Multi-Cloud Platform Development & Architecture
  • Cloud Networking & Connectivity Engineering

Compensation

  • The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations.

Benefits

  • McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare.
  • Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve - we care.
  • 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 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.

Company info

  • We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable.
  • We are Flex and Connect with 2 days a week in office.

Equal opportunity

  • Equal Opportunity Employer
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