Sr. Director, Network and Cloud Infrastructure

McKesson•Richmond, VA

16h•Onsite

About The Position

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. Sr. Director, Network and Cloud Infrastructure On-site location: Richmond, VA, USA - 9954 Mayland Drive or Irving, TX, USA - 6555 North State Highway 161 (P001) About Medical-Surgical McKesson Medical-Surgical (MMS) is a subsidiary and publicly reported segment of the McKesson Corporation. MMS distributes medical-surgical supplies, pharmaceuticals, diagnostic equipment and supplies, along with other solutions and services to virtually every type of healthcare setting and provider outside of the traditional hospital. These markets – often referred to as Alternate Care or Non-Acute Care – include physician offices, surgery centers, long-term care providers, laboratories, home health and hospice agencies, health systems, government facilities and online marketplaces and retailers. Alternate Care markets are growing rapidly and MMS is proud to be a leader in this space. With a team of approximately 8,000 employees, a network of 15 distribution centers and approximately 900 delivery vehicles, we partner with more than 2,200 leading manufacturers and serve over 200,000 customer accounts across the U.S. Our catalog includes more than 280,000 SKUs of branded and private-label medical-surgical products – from bandages to specialty pharmaceuticals and COVID-19 tests. Looking Ahead : A New Chapter for MMS McKesson has announced its intent to separate MMS into an independent company – an exciting evolution that builds on MMS’s strong foundation and proven leadership in the Alternate Care space. As a standalone company, MMS would be positioned to unlock new opportunities to innovate, grow and lead with even greater agility and focus. We will also continue to be one of the largest medical-surgical distributors in the U.S., with over $11B in annual sales. This separation would accelerate our mission and empower us to shape a future defined by customer-centricity, bold thinking and operational excellence. For job seekers, it’s a unique moment to join a team that’s already making a meaningful impact and leading the way in shaping the future of healthcare delivery in Alternate Care settings – with even greater opportunity ahead as we prepare to become an independent company. Position Overview Leadership & Team Building Build and lead NewCo's Infrastructure, Cloud & Network organization from the ground up this includes hiring, structuring, and developing teams across all four functional domains. Define the organizational structure and headcount plan for Infrastructure, Cloud, Network, and Database/Storage teams in alignment with NewCo's separation timeline and steady-state operating model. Recruit, hire, and onboard senior engineers, architects, and team leads across network migration, GCP cloud engineering, and database/storage disciplines. Lead, mentor, and develop a diverse team of engineers and architects; foster a culture of ownership, rigor, continuous improvement, and psychological safety. Serve as the infrastructure voice in executive leadership discussions communicating technical strategy, program status, risks, and investment requirements to the VP, CTO, CFO, and board as needed. Build a strong change management capability within the team the carve-out environment requires a team that executes well through ambiguity and evolving requirements. Infrastructure Strategy & Architecture Define and own the target-state infrastructure architecture for NewCo across all domains, network, cloud, and storage — ensuring alignment with a GCP-centric, cloud-first operating model. Develop and execute the strategic vision for network, cloud engineering, databases, and storage, translating NewCo's business strategy into a coherent, defensible infrastructure roadmap. Architect the GCP network foundation: VPC topology, Shared VPC strategy, Cloud Interconnect and Cloud VPN for DC and campus connectivity, Cloud DNS, global load balancing, and security controls (Cloud Armor, VPC Service Controls). Define SD-WAN or cloud-managed WAN strategy to replace MPLS dependencies and connect distribution centers, campuses, and warehouse facilities to GCP. Establish network segmentation strategy for warehouse and distribution center OT/IoT device networks, separating operational device traffic from corporate and cloud-bound traffic. Oversee the design, implementation, and management of database and storage environments — ensuring high availability, optimal performance, data integrity, and security across Oracle, SQL Server, Cloud SQL, Snowflake, Databricks and GCP-native storage. Produce and maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) for all significant infrastructure design choices, building institutional knowledge that survives personnel transitions. Cloud Migration & GCP Transformation Own the migration of NewCo's infrastructure from McKesson on-premises environments to GCP, ensuring ERP, integration, database, and monitoring dependencies are addressed in the correct sequence and to the right standard. Lead the infrastructure workstream of the JDE ERP migration — validating network readiness, latency SLAs for synchronous integrations, database migration readiness, and monitoring coverage before each wave goes live. Define and enforce go/no-go criteria for infrastructure migration waves — ensuring production environments are not cut over until connectivity, performance, observability, and rollback procedures have been validated. Partner with the Integration Architecture team to ensure Spring Boot API and MuleSoft integration traffic flows correctly through the new cloud and network topology during and after migration. Drive adoption of GCP-native services: Cloud SQL, Spanner, Snowflake, Databricks, Pub/Sub, GKE, Cloud Run, Apigee reducing reliance on lift-and-shift IaaS patterns in favor of cloud-native architectures where appropriate. Network Discovery, Wave Planning & Cutover Execution Personally sponsor and provide executive oversight for network discovery, dependency mapping, migration wave planning, and cutover execution across distribution centers, campuses, warehouses, and device networks. Ensure structured network discovery is completed for all sites in scope before migration planning begins producing formal dependency maps and site network profiles that engineers and architects can design against. Approve wave plans that sequence sites by risk, complexity, and business criticality with defined pre-requisites, rollback procedures, communication plans, and validation checklists for each wave. Maintain executive-level visibility into migration wave status, risks, and blockers providing accurate, timely updates to the CTO and program leadership. Be present at high-risk cutover events distribution center and warehouse cutovers are business events, and executive presence matters when decisions need to be made under pressure. Own rollback governance: define the criteria and authority for calling a rollback, and ensure the team always has a practiced, executable rollback plan before any cutover begins. Security, Compliance & Governance Establish and maintain the security, compliance, and governance framework for all infrastructure under this role's scope, working closely with the CISO function once in place. Implement infrastructure security controls aligned to NewCo's obligations under the McKesson MSA and evolving compliance requirements during the separation period. Enforce least privilege across GCP service accounts and cloud infrastructure; partner with Okta for identity management, UAR, and access governance. Collaborate with the cybersecurity team to ensure infrastructure solutions comply with security standards and best practices, including Zero Trust network access, Cloud Armor, VPC Service Controls, and private connectivity patterns. Oversee the development and maintenance of disaster recovery and business continuity plans for all infrastructure domains—ensuring tested, documented, and executable plans are in place before migration waves complete. Establish change management governance for infrastructure: CI/CD-gated network configuration changes, Terraform-managed cloud resources, and audit-ready change logs. Performance, Observability & Operations Establish operational standards and observability practices that give NewCo's infrastructure team visibility into production health from day one — not after the first incident. Implement infrastructure observability using GCP-native tooling: VPC Flow Logs, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, Network Intelligence Center — and integrate on-premises monitoring into a unified view. Define alerting thresholds, SLAs, and runbooks for all infrastructure domains — with particular attention to latency-sensitive ERP and HCM integration paths. Continuously monitor infrastructure performance and health; drive improvement and optimization on a regular cadence rather than reactively. Develop and report on key performance metrics for infrastructure reliability, cloud cost efficiency, migration wave progress, and team delivery throughput — for the CTO and executive leadership. Develop Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Corrective Action Plans (CAP) for all significant infrastructure incidents, ensuring learnings are documented and systemic issues are resolved. Budget, Vendor & Resource Management Own the infrastructure budget and vendor relationships across all domains — managing spend with the discipline of a newly independent company where every dollar of infrastructure investment is visible to the board. Develop and manage annual budgets for network, cloud, database, and storage operations, ensuring cost-effective resource allocation and alignment with financial targets. Evaluate, negotiate, and manage vendor relationships, including GCP (Google), network equipment vendors (Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto), colocation providers, MPLS/WAN carriers, and infrastructure tooling vendors. Drive cloud cost optimization: rightsizing, committed use discounts, sustained use optimization, and elimination of unused resources—maintaining a cloud cost posture appropriate for a carve-out company. Recommend and implement tools and technologies that enhance operational efficiency without creating unnecessary vendor lock-in or technical debt.

Requirements

Degree or equivalent experience.
Typically requires 13+ years of professional experience and 6+ years of diversified leadership, planning, communication, organization, and people motivation skills (or equivalent experience)
Network: Expert-level knowledge of network design principles — LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, MPLS, BGP, VPN, cloud networking, QoS, and Zero Trust access patterns.
Cloud (GCP): VPC, Shared VPC, Cloud Interconnect, Cloud VPN, Cloud Router (BGP), Cloud NAT, Cloud DNS, Cloud Armor, VPC Service Controls, Network Intelligence Center, GKE, Cloud Run, Apigee.
Database & Storage: Deep experience with Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Cloud SQL; familiarity with Snowflake, Databricks and GCP-native data storage patterns; knowledge of database migration strategies.
Security: Firewall design and policy migration (Palo Alto, Cisco ASA/FTD), IAM, encryption, DDoS protection, intrusion detection, and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, HIPAA, NIST).
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform for cloud resource provisioning; Git-based infrastructure change management; CI/CD pipeline integration for infrastructure deployments.
Observability: Cloud Monitoring, VPC Flow Logs, Cloud Trace, network monitoring platforms (SolarWinds, Grafana, or equivalent), ITIL-aligned incident and problem management.
Emerging Technologies: SD-WAN, IoT device network management, edge computing awareness, container networking (GKE), and service mesh fundamentals.

Nice To Haves

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence with technical teams, business leaders, and external partners.
Strategic thinker with a strong analytical mindset and problem-solving abilities.
Proven track record of overseeing a portfolio of multiple projects and experience leading large scale global transformation program at a company with global footprint.
Strong change manager. Comfortable with change, especially that which arises through transformation. Able to lead a team effectively through times of change. Positive and flexible attitude to enable adjusting to different needs in an ever-changing environment
Experience with data in the drug supply chain and commercial domain within healthcare, pharma is a plus
Strong leadership, organizational and interpersonal skills; comfortable managing trade-offs
Ability to lead others without direct authority
Highly influential and ability to educate stakeholders on the role of data and its purpose in the business
Teams up and collaborates for speed, agility, delivery excellence and innovation
Strong negotiation and decision-making skills
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Data Science, Information Technology, or a related field OR equivalent experience

Responsibilities

Build and lead NewCo's Infrastructure, Cloud & Network organization from the ground up this includes hiring, structuring, and developing teams across all four functional domains.
Define the organizational structure and headcount plan for Infrastructure, Cloud, Network, and Database/Storage teams in alignment with NewCo's separation timeline and steady-state operating model.
Recruit, hire, and onboard senior engineers, architects, and team leads across network migration, GCP cloud engineering, and database/storage disciplines.
Lead, mentor, and develop a diverse team of engineers and architects; foster a culture of ownership, rigor, continuous improvement, and psychological safety.
Serve as the infrastructure voice in executive leadership discussions communicating technical strategy, program status, risks, and investment requirements to the VP, CTO, CFO, and board as needed.
Build a strong change management capability within the team the carve-out environment requires a team that executes well through ambiguity and evolving requirements.
Define and own the target-state infrastructure architecture for NewCo across all domains, network, cloud, and storage — ensuring alignment with a GCP-centric, cloud-first operating model.
Develop and execute the strategic vision for network, cloud engineering, databases, and storage, translating NewCo's business strategy into a coherent, defensible infrastructure roadmap.
Architect the GCP network foundation: VPC topology, Shared VPC strategy, Cloud Interconnect and Cloud VPN for DC and campus connectivity, Cloud DNS, global load balancing, and security controls (Cloud Armor, VPC Service Controls).
Define SD-WAN or cloud-managed WAN strategy to replace MPLS dependencies and connect distribution centers, campuses, and warehouse facilities to GCP.
Establish network segmentation strategy for warehouse and distribution center OT/IoT device networks, separating operational device traffic from corporate and cloud-bound traffic.
Oversee the design, implementation, and management of database and storage environments — ensuring high availability, optimal performance, data integrity, and security across Oracle, SQL Server, Cloud SQL, Snowflake, Databricks and GCP-native storage.
Produce and maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) for all significant infrastructure design choices, building institutional knowledge that survives personnel transitions.
Own the migration of NewCo's infrastructure from McKesson on-premises environments to GCP, ensuring ERP, integration, database, and monitoring dependencies are addressed in the correct sequence and to the right standard.
Lead the infrastructure workstream of the JDE ERP migration — validating network readiness, latency SLAs for synchronous integrations, database migration readiness, and monitoring coverage before each wave goes live.
Define and enforce go/no-go criteria for infrastructure migration waves — ensuring production environments are not cut over until connectivity, performance, observability, and rollback procedures have been validated.
Partner with the Integration Architecture team to ensure Spring Boot API and MuleSoft integration traffic flows correctly through the new cloud and network topology during and after migration.
Drive adoption of GCP-native services: Cloud SQL, Spanner, Snowflake, Databricks, Pub/Sub, GKE, Cloud Run, Apigee reducing reliance on lift-and-shift IaaS patterns in favor of cloud-native architectures where appropriate.
Personally sponsor and provide executive oversight for network discovery, dependency mapping, migration wave planning, and cutover execution across distribution centers, campuses, warehouses, and device networks.
Ensure structured network discovery is completed for all sites in scope before migration planning begins producing formal dependency maps and site network profiles that engineers and architects can design against.
Approve wave plans that sequence sites by risk, complexity, and business criticality with defined pre-requisites, rollback procedures, communication plans, and validation checklists for each wave.
Maintain executive-level visibility into migration wave status, risks, and blockers providing accurate, timely updates to the CTO and program leadership.
Be present at high-risk cutover events distribution center and warehouse cutovers are business events, and executive presence matters when decisions need to be made under pressure.
Own rollback governance: define the criteria and authority for calling a rollback, and ensure the team always has a practiced, executable rollback plan before any cutover begins.
Establish and maintain the security, compliance, and governance framework for all infrastructure under this role's scope, working closely with the CISO function once in place.
Implement infrastructure security controls aligned to NewCo's obligations under the McKesson MSA and evolving compliance requirements during the separation period.
Enforce least privilege across GCP service accounts and cloud infrastructure; partner with Okta for identity management, UAR, and access governance.
Collaborate with the cybersecurity team to ensure infrastructure solutions comply with security standards and best practices, including Zero Trust network access, Cloud Armor, VPC Service Controls, and private connectivity patterns.
Oversee the development and maintenance of disaster recovery and business continuity plans for all infrastructure domains—ensuring tested, documented, and executable plans are in place before migration waves complete.
Establish change management governance for infrastructure: CI/CD-gated network configuration changes, Terraform-managed cloud resources, and audit-ready change logs.
Establish operational standards and observability practices that give NewCo's infrastructure team visibility into production health from day one — not after the first incident.
Implement infrastructure observability using GCP-native tooling: VPC Flow Logs, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, Network Intelligence Center — and integrate on-premises monitoring into a unified view.
Define alerting thresholds, SLAs, and runbooks for all infrastructure domains — with particular attention to latency-sensitive ERP and HCM integration paths.
Continuously monitor infrastructure performance and health; drive improvement and optimization on a regular cadence rather than reactively.
Develop and report on key performance metrics for infrastructure reliability, cloud cost efficiency, migration wave progress, and team delivery throughput — for the CTO and executive leadership.
Develop Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Corrective Action Plans (CAP) for all significant infrastructure incidents, ensuring learnings are documented and systemic issues are resolved.
Own the infrastructure budget and vendor relationships across all domains — managing spend with the discipline of a newly independent company where every dollar of infrastructure investment is visible to the board.
Develop and manage annual budgets for network, cloud, database, and storage operations, ensuring cost-effective resource allocation and alignment with financial targets.
Evaluate, negotiate, and manage vendor relationships, including GCP (Google), network equipment vendors (Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto), colocation providers, MPLS/WAN carriers, and infrastructure tooling vendors.
Drive cloud cost optimization: rightsizing, committed use discounts, sustained use optimization, and elimination of unused resources—maintaining a cloud cost posture appropriate for a carve-out company.
Recommend and implement tools and technologies that enhance operational efficiency without creating unnecessary vendor lock-in or technical debt.