Senior Lead Engineer, Platform Operations & Observability

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About the Role

Team/Project: Canada B2C Digital Solution. Main application in the portfolio is a B2C Platform for pharmacy patients. Team of around 20 people.

McKesson is seeking a Senior Lead Engineer, Platform Operations & Observability to lead the reliability, observability, and operational excellence of enterprise healthcare technology platforms. In this role, in accordance with Application Monitoring & Observability Lead, you will drive monitoring strategies, incident management practices, change governance, and root cause analysis initiatives while helping build scalable, secure, and resilient systems.

You will collaborate with software engineering, platform, security, and operations teams to improve service reliability, automate operational processes, and establish best practices for production readiness. This position also provides technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams while influencing reliability standards and long-term platform strategy.

What You'll Do

• Lead monitoring and observability strategies across enterprise applications, platforms, and services.
• Design, implement, and optimize dashboards, alerts, telemetry, logging, and performance monitoring solutions.
• Drive incident management processes, major incident response, escalation coordination, service restoration activities and postmortem incident.
• Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) investigations and lead corrective and preventive action planning.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve platform reliability, resiliency, scalability, and operational readiness.
• Lead change management reviews and promote safe deployment and release practices.
• Ability to execute regression and validation test plans following each production deployment.
• Provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring to engineers while establishing engineering best practices.
• Influence architecture, automation, CI/CD, and operational excellence initiatives supporting enterprise platforms.

Basic Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or related technical roles.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
• Experience supporting large-scale production environments and enterprise applications.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, observability, logging, alerting, and application performance monitoring tools.
• Proven experience leading incident management and production support activities.
• Experience performing root cause analysis and implementing preventive solutions.
• Experience with CI/CD, automation, DevOps practices, and software delivery pipelines.
• Experience with microservices, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-based architectures.
• Lead production readiness reviews and operational acceptance activities prior to major releases.

Preferred Skills / Experience

• Experience with tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Dotcom Monitor or similar observability platforms.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and cloud platforms such as Azure.
• Knowledge of ITIL-aligned incidents, problems, and change management practices.
• Experience defining SLAs, MTTR and service reliability metrics.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and mentorship of engineering teams.
• Experience operating in regulated or highly compliant environments.
• Experience driving platform modernization and operational excellence initiatives.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, continuous improvement and stakeholder communication skills.
• Fair understanding and mastery of Ai tools (Copilot, Rovo) and Ai agents.

Travel / Work Environment / Physical Requirements

• Hybrid, two mandatory days at the Dobrin Office (Usually on Monday and Wednesday).
• Ability to work at a computer for extended periods and participate in virtual collaboration activities.
• Participation in on-call support and prod deployment rotations out of business hours may be required based on organizational needs.

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

$94,400 - $157,300

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