McKesson

Healthcare

SeniorInfrastructureEngineer

$99–132k Mississauga, Ontario, Canada FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Senior Infrastructure Engineer at McKesson. Skills: Azure, VMware, Migrations, Automation. Plan, design, and implement migration initiatives. Architect scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure solutions”

What You'll Achieve.

Deliver secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure solutions; Achieve measurable improvements in performance, reliability, scalability, and cost optimization; Modernizing McKesson’s infrastructure; Accelerating cloud adoption; Improving platform reliability; Reducing technical debt; Delivering tangible business value across the organization; Achieve documented performance improvements; Achieve availability enhancements; Achieve cost savings; Ensuring stability, performance, and minimal operational disruption; Support enterprise reliability and compliance; Support operational integrity, lifecycle management, and audit readiness; Ensuring minimal disruption and controlled risk; Confirm changes meet technical, operational, and business requirements; Ensure end-to-end solution integrity and operational readiness; Ensuring long-term solution stability and resilience; Meet job performance standards and objectives

Industry & Context.

Healthcare
Problems you'll solve

Involve team members in problem-solving; Analyze, troubleshoot, and remediate infrastructure issues; Provide root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

8+ years of hands‑on experience in enterprise infrastructure or systems engineering roles, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent hands‑on industry experience, expertise in enterprise operating systems, Microsoft Azure, VMware, enterprise storage platforms, designing, building, operating, and troubleshooting hybrid architectures across on-premises and Azure environments, executing large‑scale server and workload migrations from on‑premises environments to hybrid and public cloud platforms, Advanced proficiency in PowerShell scripting, working knowledge of application architecture and deployment processes, ability to align infrastructure design and implementation to application and business requirements

Nice to Have

Kubernetes a plus

What You'll Do.

and implement migration initiatives

and secure infrastructure solutions

Evaluate legacy infrastructure

Define modernization and migration strategies

Deliver migration plans

Lead migration planning and execution

and minimal disruption

Partner with application teams

Align infrastructure migrations with application architecture

and governance-aligned compute environments

Maintain system documentation

and retire CMDB records

Adhere to McKesson Change Management process

and implement changes

Participate in change reviews

Ensure infrastructure solutions comply with policies

Collaborate with compute

and cybersecurity teams

Act as post-migration escalation point

Provide root cause analysis and remediation

Communicate recommendations

Seek to provide candid and timely feedback

Foster teamwork and innovation

Involve team members in problem-solving

Ensure customer requirements are met

Solicit feedback from customers

Apply decision-making authority and autonomy

Make decisions regarding work and development

Build internal and external relationships

Respect and adhere to McKesson Standards

Meet job performance standards

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Works in close partnership with engineering, architecture, application, operations, and cybersecurity teams; Collaborate with compute, network, storage, operations, and cybersecurity teams; Foster teamwork and innovation by involving team members in problem-solving, decision-making, and creative thinking; Build internal and external relationships with key suppliers, customers, and internal service providers

Communication Scope

Demonstrate clear and effective written and verbal communication skills in English; Articulate technical designs, risks, implementation outcomes, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Process & Methodology

Manage deliverables, Execute within defined project timelines and change windows

Full Job Description

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. The Senior Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for planning, designing, and executing enterprise infrastructure modernization initiatives, including large‑scale migrations from legacy on‑premises environments to Azure Local and hybrid Azure cloud platforms. This role works in close partnership with engineering, architecture, application, operations, and cybersecurity teams to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure solutions. The ideal candidate brings deep hands‑on technical expertise across VMware, Microsoft Azure, Azure Local, core server platforms, and automation, with a proven track record of delivering complex data center and enterprise migrations that achieve measurable improvements in performance, reliability, scalability, and cost optimization. This role requires strong engineering judgment, the ability to execute technically complex work end‑to‑end, and comfort operating in highly regulated, large‑scale enterprise environments. The Senior Infrastructure Engineer plays a critical role in modernizing McKesson’s infrastructure, accelerating cloud adoption, improving platform reliability, reducing technical debt, and delivering tangible business value across the organization. ### **Infrastructure Strategy & Design:** * Plan, design, and implement migration initiatives across on‑premises, hybrid, and Azure cloud environments. * Architect scal

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