Lead Cloud Engineer

Job#: 3042615

Job Description:

We seek a talented and motivated Lead Cloud Engineer to be part of the Cloud Engineering team and accelerate our efforts to drive trust, agility, and cloud adoption among McKesson business teams.

As a Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer, you will lead the development effort of multiple complex cloud automation features, CI/CD pipelines for cloud infrastructure and applications, cloud-native application blueprints, building automation at scale, and enabling DevOps to application teams.

Position Description

In this role, you will collaborate with application development teams and cloud and application architects to lead the development of scalable and reliable, fully automated CI/CD pipelines for cloud infrastructure and applications.

·Design, build and operate the Integrated Developer Platform (IDP) to accelerate the application delivery using gated CI/CD pipeline templates and build/release automation.

·Design, implement and strengthen DevOps processes and drive the automation of cloud platforms and the Developer Portal.

· Leverage programming skills to design and develop DevOps tooling on various infrastructure platforms.

·Communicate, coordinate, and collaborate with peers in Cloud Engineering and the groups in McKesson Technology Organization to plan and implement resource plans effectively across the team.

Minimum Requirements

Typically requires 8+ years of professional experience and 6+ years of full-stack development, design, Kubernetes engineering, development of build and deploy CI/CD pipelines.

Critical Skills

·Minimum 8+ years of experience in a Software Engineering or Infrastructure team in a Cloud, PaaS, and DevOps environment.

·5+ years of full-stack software development, or SRE experience.

·5+ years of DevOps, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Artifactory, and app deployment to the Kubernetes.

·Extensive experience in software engineering, including DevOps, GitOps, CI/CD pipeline, test automation, environment, and configuration automation.

·Experience in working with cloud computing technologies (MS Azure or GCP) is preferred.

·Experience in cloud automation, configuration management, and deployment of enterprise-scale infrastructures as code (IaC) using Ansible, Terraform, and Python.

·Proficient knowledge of the security processes, standards & issues involved in multi-tier cloud or hybrid applications, including relevant data privacy and compliance requirements. Familiarity with principles of network, application, and information security.

·Hands-on experience with GitOps methodologies and workflows for managing infrastructure and application delivery.

·Proficiency with ArgoCD for continuous delivery and progressive deployment of Kubernetes workloads.

·Experience with Kargo for promoting and managing multi-stage GitOps pipelines.

·Experience provisioning and managing Kubernetes clusters on AKS and GKE.

·Strong hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code across cloud platforms.

·Experience with Helm, Kustomize, and Crossplane for Kubernetes application packaging and infrastructure provisioning.

·Experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Argo Workflows.

·Working knowledge of Cilium, Azure CNI, Gateway API, NGINX Ingress, and Istio Service Mesh for Kubernetes networking and traffic management.

·Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and OPA/Gatekeeper for monitoring, visualization, and policy enforcement.

·Solid Terraform and Kubernetes infrastructure-as-code (IaC) experience across multi-cloud environments.

·Experience implementing GitOps patterns using ArgoCD, Kargo, and Crossplane.

·Experience with secrets and TLS certificate management using tools such as KeyFactor, ACME, and cert-manager.

·Experience delivering full-stack observability, including logs, metrics, and traces.

·Experience implementing Azure Policies and Network Policies (Cilium) for governance and security.

·Strong networking knowledge, including routing and User Defined Routes (UDR).

Additional Knowledge & Skills

·Software development experience in React, TypeScript, Backstage, Node JS, and JavaScript.

·Microsoft Azure, GCP, or Kubernetes certifications are preferred.

·Agile methodology experience and working experience in a scrum team are preferred.

Education

degree in computer science or related field or equivalent experience

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA.