Lead, Release And Change Management

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About the RoleMcKesson is seeking a Lead, Release and Change Management help design, improve, and govern enterprise-scale infrastructure across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. In this role, you will provide senior technical leadership for infrastructure initiatives that support resilient, secure, and scalable technology operations.
You will partner across engineering, operations, security, architecture, and business teams to strengthen reliability, improve automation, support safe deployments, and guide change-management practices across multiple systems. This role is ideal for an infrastructure leader who brings deep technical expertise, strong ownership, and a continuous improvement mindset.
What You’ll Do
Lead design, implementation, and support of enterprise infrastructure systems across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
Own release coordination and change-management processes across multiple systems to support safe, reliable delivery.
Manage change calendars, environment scheduling, deployment readiness, and release risk mitigation.
Serve as an escalation point for critical incidents, complex troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
Drive automation, orchestration, and reliability improvements using modern infrastructure and DevOps practices.
Govern SLA/OLA performance, infrastructure compliance, operational standards, and security protocols.
Analyze infrastructure performance, capacity, cost, availability, and service data to recommend improvements.
Use AI-enabled tools to draft service and incident reports, summarize incidents, automate routine reporting, prepare governance content, and accelerate analysis.
Basic Requirements
10+ years of progressive experience in infrastructure engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, systems engineering, network engineering, or a related technical field.
Experience designing, supporting, or governing enterprise-scale infrastructure systems.
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, virtualization, automation, orchestration, or infrastructure-as-code tools.
Experience supporting incident management, change management, release coordination, or production operations.
Working knowledge of infrastructure security, compliance practices, network architecture, and reliability engineering.
Experience communicating technical recommendations to engineering teams, business partners, and technology leaders.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Skills/Experience
Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, CI/CD pipelines, Git, Kubernetes, containers, or DevOps toolchains.
Familiarity with change calendars, environment scheduling, deployment windows, and safe-deployment practices.
Experience with enterprise storage, distributed storage, SDN, network capacity planning, or cost optimization.
Experience in healthcare, life sciences, financial services, or another regulated enterprise environment.
Experience using AI tools to support incident reporting, SLA analysis, operational reporting, governance documentation, or root-cause analysis.
Strong collaboration, change leadership, systems thinking, and data-driven decision-making skills.
Travel, Work Environment, and Physical Requirements
Work model may be remote, hybrid, or office-based depending on business and team needs.
Occasional travel may be required for team, project, vendor, or business meetings.
Ability to work at a computer for extended periods and participate in virtual or in-person collaboration.
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.
Our Base Pay Range for this position$122,100 - $162,800
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