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Sr. Cloud Engineer

McKesson


Job Location:

Richmond, VA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 115300 - 192100
Posted: 27 September 2026 (9 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 25 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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 tomorrows 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: Bachelors 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 8000 employees a network of 15 distribution centers and approximately 900 delivery vehicles we collaborate with more than 2200 leading manufacturers and serve over 200000 customer accounts across the U.S. Our catalog includes more than 270000 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 McKessons 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 pleaseclick here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

$115300 - $192100

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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 McKessons full Equal Employment Opportunity policies visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.

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