Platform Engineering Manager

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As a Platform Engineering Manager on the CoverMyMeds (CMM) team, you'll lead a team of platform engineers responsible for building and operating the infrastructure that enables CMM's product development. Your team maintains critical shared systems-both modern cloud-native platforms and legacy on-premises infrastructure-that 400+ developers depend on daily. This is a people leadership role. You won't be writing code, but you'll need enough technical fluency to review your team's work, make informed tradeoffs, and advocate effectively for platform investments. Your success will be measured by your team's effectiveness, the reliability of the systems they own, and the experience of the developers who build on your platform.

*At this time, we are not able to offer sponsorship for employment visas. This includes individuals currently on F-1 OPT, STEM OPT, or any other visa status that would require future sponsorship. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis without the need for current or future sponsorship.

What You'll Do:

Lead and develop your team

• Manage a team of 4-6 engineers, including senior individual contributors

• Hire, onboard, and retain strong platform engineers

• Conduct regular 1:1s, provide feedback, and support career growth

• Build a team culture that balances operational excellence with sustainable pace

Deliver platform capabilities

• Partner with other engineering managers to plan and execute platform initiatives

• Own delivery of your team's roadmap commitments while managing operational load

• Navigate the tension between building new capabilities and maintaining existing systems

• Manage contractors and vendors as needed

Operate in a regulated environment

• Ensure your team's work meets SOX and ITGC compliance requirements

• Participate in change management, architecture review, and audit processes

• Balance governance requirements with development velocity

Serve your internal customers

• Understand the needs of product engineering teams who depend on your platform

• Translate developer pain points into platform improvements

• Communicate platform changes, incidents, and roadmap clearly to stakeholders

Represent platform engineering organizationally

• Coordinate with peer engineering managers on shared responsibilities

• Contribute to technical strategy and infrastructure investment decisions

• Escalate blockers and advocate for your team's priorities

Experience You'll Need:

• Degree or equivalent experience, and typically requires 9+ years of relative experience including 1+ years of leading engineering teams with direct experience managing individual contributors (includes hiring, developing and retaining technical talent

• Background in software engineering, SRE, or platform/infrastructure engineering

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts (we use Azure), containerization (Kubernetes), and CI/CD practices

• Ability to review technical work, ask good questions, and recognize quality

• Understanding of infrastructure-as-code approaches

• Comfort with ambiguity and working thru competing priorities, in a large complex organization

• Clear written and verbal communication with both technical and non-technical audiences

• Ability to make decisions with incomplete information and adjust as you learn more

• Skilled at building relationships across organizational boundaries

Helpful But Not Required:

• Experience in healthcare technology or other regulated industries

• Familiarity with our specific stack: Terraform, ArgoCD, Azure

• Experience managing platform teams that serve internal developer customers

• Background operating legacy systems alongside modern infrastructure

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, pleaseclick here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

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