Lead, Network Systems Engineering

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Lead Network Engineer – Design & Engineering

Current Need

McKesson is seeking a Lead Network Engineer to join the Network Design and Engineering team. This role serves as a technical authority and handson leader, responsible for designing, validating, and delivering enterprise network solutions that are secure, scalable, and operationally resilient.

The Lead Network Engineer partners closely with engineering peers, operations, security, cloud teams, and delivery partners to ensure network solutions are wellarchitected, thoroughly tested, documented, and productionready. This role is critical to sustaining the Network Design and Engineering team’s reputation as a trusted advisor to McKesson business units and technology partners.

Position Description

Key Accountabilities

• Act as a technical lead for the design and delivery of enterprise network infrastructure initiatives
• Design, test, and document complex network solutions aligned to business, security, and operational requirements
• Lead implementation of network changes, upgrades, and expansions, ensuring stability and minimal operational impact
• Provide deep technical oversight during delivery, validating designs, configurations, and deployment approaches
• Identify technical risks and design gaps early, and drive engineeringled mitigation strategies
• Architect and deliver solutions leveraging softwaredefined (SDx) principles and modern network architectures
• Work across technologies including Aruba (CX), Cisco (Viptela, Meraki), InfoBlox, and Palo Alto
• Serve as a lasttier escalation engineer, providing asrequired afterhours support for critical incidents
• Analyze complex and diverse environments, developing repeatable, standardized solutions
• Mentor and guide engineers, raising technical depth, design rigor, and operational readiness across the team
• Collaborate closely with security, cloud, infrastructure, and operations teams to ensure holistic and secure designs
• Participate in technical reviews, design forums, and stakeholder discussions, clearly articulating risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations
  
  
  

Minimum Requirements

• Typically 10 years of experience in network engineering, infrastructure, or technical network service
  
  
  

Qualifications

• Advanced experience architecting, implementing, and troubleshooting complex enterprise networks
• Proven technical leadership on largescale network initiatives in enterprise environments
• Deep expertise in LAN, WAN, routing, switching, wireless, firewalls, and VPN technologies
• Strong experience with detailed network design, validation, and documentation
• Handson experience applying automation and scripting within softwaredefined networks
• Familiarity with public cloud networking constructs (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience working with vendordelivered and partnersupported network solutions
• Solid understanding of delivery lifecycles, change management, and operational readiness
• Minimum 2 years’ experience with automation, software development, or virtualization technologies
  
  
  

Additional Experience

• Experience in healthcare, distribution, or software environments is a plus
• Strong technical curiosity with the ability to rapidly learn and evaluate new technologies
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including technical and executive audiences
• Demonstrated technical thought leadership and innovation
• Strong interpersonal skills to build trust across engineering, operations, and business teams
• Proven ability to exercise sound professional judgment and securityfirst engineering practices
• Experience supporting alwayson, highly available enterprise environments
• Strong understanding of how people, systems, and processes behave during incidents or crisis situations
• Track record of working across organizational boundaries to resolve complex, highimpact technical challenges
  
  
  

Education

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
  
  
  

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

$136,700 - $227,800

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