Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. McKesson is an impact-driven healthcare company delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. The Lead Database Administrator serves as the technical authority for enterprise PostgreSQL and SQL Server platforms across on-premises and Microsoft Azure environments, leading database strategy, architecture, reliability, automation, migrations, security, and lifecycle management.
Responsibilities
- Own the design, implementation, operation, and continuous evolution of PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server environments across cloud and on-premises platforms
- Lead complex cloud modernization and database migration initiatives, including architecture design, migration strategy, performance validation, cutover planning, and post-migration stabilization
- Establish and maintain database standards, reference architectures, operational runbooks, governance practices, and platform roadmaps that drive consistency and scalability
- Design and validate highly available, resilient, and cost-efficient database solutions, including disaster recovery, backup, recovery, replication, and failover architectures
- Advance Infrastructure as Code and Database-as-Code practices through Terraform, Liquibase, and CI/CD automation to enable secure, repeatable deployments
- Drive database performance, observability, and operational excellence through proactive tuning, capacity planning, monitoring, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Serve as the senior technical escalation point for critical production issues, leading incident response, root cause analysis, and preventative remediation efforts
- Partner with security, infrastructure, and application teams to implement security controls, compliance requirements, access governance, and vulnerability remediation
- Mentor engineers and DBAs, lead technical reviews, establish engineering standards, and promote knowledge sharing across teams
- Present technical recommendations, roadmaps, risks, and architectural decisions to senior leaders and stakeholders, translating technical concepts into business outcomes
Skills
- Degree or equivalent and typically requires 10+ years of relevant experience with database administration, database engineering, or related database platform experience
- 5+ years serving in a senior, lead, architect, or enterprise technical leadership role supporting production database environments
- 5+ years designing, operating, and optimizing databases in public cloud environments, with Microsoft Azure strongly preferred
- Expert-level PostgreSQL administration experience, including high availability, replication, performance tuning, upgrades, and operational support
- Strong expertise administering SQL Server (2014+) and Azure SQL in enterprise production environments
- Demonstrated success supporting mission-critical systems with stringent availability, reliability, security, and recovery requirements
- Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional database initiatives from concept through implementation
- Demonstrated success mentoring engineers and DBAs while influencing technical standards and best practices across teams
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a fulltime basis without the need for employer support or sponsorship now or in the future. This includes having the legal right to work in the United States without the need for McKesson support or sponsorship for any immigration related employment authorization (e.g., H1B, O1, E3, H1B1, TN, F1 OPT, F1 STEM OPT, F1 CPT, etc.) now or in the future
- Experience with Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure Monitor, Entra ID authentication, and private networking
- Experience developing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform
- Experience implementing database CI/CD pipelines using Liquibase and platforms such as Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
- Strong automation and scripting skills using PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar technologies
- Experience supporting Kubernetes-based workloads and containerized application environments
- Experience with SSIS, CDC technologies such as Qlik, and modern data integration or data movement patterns
- Experience in healthcare or other regulated environments, including HIPAA, HITRUST, or SOC 2 compliance
- Relevant Azure, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or cloud platform certifications
- Exposure to Azure Cosmos DB migration strategies
- Practical experience leveraging AI-assisted tools for troubleshooting, analysis, automation, or engineering productivity
Benefits
- Fully Remote
- An annual bonus may be offered.
- Long-term incentive opportunities may be offered.
- Equity may be offered.
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