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 IT Infrastructure Director role is responsible for overseeing the design, implementation, management, and operations of enterprise-level monitoring solutions. This person will collaborate with McKesson Technology cross-functional teams to ensure the reliability, performance and scalability of application & infrastructure to meet business requirements.
Key Responsibilities

• Strategy & Governance: Develop and implement a multi-year observability strategy. Define enterprise standards for logging, metrics, and tracing, including forecasting telemetry volumes and licensing needs.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner with engineering, data science, and security teams to embed observability throughout the software development lifecycle and incident response processes.
• Operational Excellence: Establish SLAs, improve MTTR, and leverage AIOps to automate monitoring and reduce alert fatigue.
• Financial Discipline: able to manage IT budget & investments to align with core business objectives and prevent unnecessary spending. Able to maintain yearly budget along with creating a realistic plan while controlling costs to avoid overruns.
• Vendor & Tool Management: Evaluate, select, and manage observability tools and vendors to ensure scalability, cost efficiency, and unified analytics across hybrid cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Leadership:
• Create a vision, clear direction, and strategy for the team.
• Establish, manage, and coach team to clear objectives and performance expectations.
• Attract, motivate, develop, and retain a highly-skilled workforce.
• Constantly monitor and improve team efficiency, effectiveness, and impact.
• Lead and enable enterprise-wide thinking in the team.
• Create an environment that values employees and encourages cooperation, open communication, and teamwork.
• Serve as a role model by demonstrating a commitment to McKesson i2CARE & iLEAD values, high-performance standards, workplace diversity, and driving results.

Minimum Requirements

• Degree or equivalent experience. Typically requires 12+ years of professional experience and 4+ years of management experience.

Critical Skills

• Platform Management: Design, maintain, and optimize an enterprise-scale observability platform using a mix of SaaS tools (e.g., Dynatrace, LogicMonitor) and open-source technologies (e.g., Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Technical Expertise:

• Observability Fundamentals: Deep knowledge of logs, metrics, and traces.
• Tools: Hands-on experience with Dynatrace, LogicMonitor and OpenTelemetry
• Cloud & Architecture: Strong understanding of cloud-native environments, containers, microservices, and Kubernetes
• Automation & Scripting: Proficiency in scripting (e.g., Python) and automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform)?Additional Skills
• Strategic thinker with strong problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication skills for executive-level presentations.
• Proven leadership in mentoring teams and driving cross-functional initiatives.

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
Our Base Pay Range for this position
$124,800 - $208,000
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