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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.

Position Description

The Sr. Specialist, Systems Engineer will develop and maintain on-premise and cloud systems with a specific focus on application delivery and support.

Responsibilities

• Perform in a team leader role.  Acts as a resource for colleagues and mentors’ new hires.
• Design strategy and solutions for improving application availability, performance, and health.
• Resolve complicated product application support issues.
• Perform root cause investigations, determine remediations and implement solutions to prevent similar issues.
• Analyzes and troubleshoots reoccurring incidents and improve mean time to resolution or recommend corrective action(s). 
• DevOps participant supporting application deployment and management
• Determine, define, and facilitate creation of processes required to keep application services available and within defined SLO’s or SLA’s.
• Facilitate Disaster Recovery documentation creation, maintenance, and automation.  
• Provide evidence in support of annual audits

Must be authorized to work in the US. Sponsorship is not available for this position. 

Minimum Requirements

Degree or equivalent and typically requires 4+ years of relevant experience

Critical Skills

• Can accomplish work without considerable direction and uses judgement within broad policies and practices.
• 4-7+ years of experience in Windows Server Administration
• 4-7+ years of experience in application support (Traditional Fat Client and Web based on Windows Server with SQL Server database backend)
• 3+ years supporting system integration solutions. (web services/API using Windows Server IIS)
• 3+ years using automated build/provisioning processes.
• Scripting language experience to support application and/or cloud automation. (PowerShell, Python, etc.)

Additional Knowledge and Skills Preferred

• Experience using a Cloud provider, such as GCP, Azure, and/or AWS
• Virtualization technologies like VmWare and/or Citrix
• Experience in monitoring tools like Solarwinds/Datadog/Dynatrace
• Understanding of DevOps tools and environments like Jenkins, Git, Rundeck and/or Terraform
• Excellent communication skills. (written, verbal, and presentation)
• Ability to analyze highly complex systems with specific attention to detail
• Team leader mentality with specific focus on inclusion

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline, Computer Science preferred or relevant professional experience
• Cloud certification (strongly desired)

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.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer

McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees and is committed to a diverse and inclusive environment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age or genetic information. For additional information on McKesson’s full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.

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