Software Engineering Specialist

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Software Engineering Specialist

Location: Richmond VA USA - 9954 Mayland Drive

Remote/Hybrid- must be available to attend meetings in the home office when required

This position comes with competitive pay a full benefit package that includes 401K PTO and other perks. There is also a 10% incentive program.

Position Overview:

We are seeking a handson Software Developer (P3) to support and enhance McKessons B2B Commerce SupplyManager platform. This role is AMS-first with strong ownership of production support ITIL processes and operational excellence while contributing across application development SRE and DevOps.

This is a full-stack production-facing role for an engineer experienced in incident management troubleshooting CI/CD automation reliability engineering and microservices development in hybrid cloud environments (Azure / GCP / AWS).

Key Responsibilities:

Application Maintenance & Support (Primary)

• Own end-to-end ITIL processes: Incident Problem Change Release Service Request Knowledge CMDB Capacity & Availability.

• Provide P1/P2 production support including troubleshooting stakeholder communication SLA adherence and RCA (Root Cause Analysis).

• Perform production fixes hotfix deployments and small enhancements.

• Execute QA validation (functional regression smoke) and assess performance scalability and reliability impacts.

• Maintain runbooks SOPs knowledge articles and drive operational stability improvements.

• Lead problem management with data-driven analysis and long-term remediation.

SRE Observability & Reliability

• Monitor and troubleshoot using Dynatrace ELK/EFK logs metrics and alerting tools.

• Improve observability (dashboards alerts logging standards).

• Perform performance tuning capacity planning and proactive risk mitigation.

• Support disaster recovery (DR) backup/restore and resilience engineering.

• Collaborate with CloudOps Platform Network Security and DBA teams to enhance system reliability.

Application Development (Secondary)

• Build and enhance Java / Spring Boot microservices and REST APIs.

• Develop UI components using React (when applicable).

• Contribute to architecture modernization and code quality improvements.

• Integrate with ERP data platforms search (Bloomreach/Endeca) and downstream systems.

• Participate in code reviews and enforce engineering best practices.

DevOps CI/CD & Release Engineering

• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions required).

• Support DevOps lifecycle: build test security scanning artifact management deployments.

• Automate environments using Terraform Ansible (or similar IaC tools).

• Ensure audit-ready releases with proper governance (ServiceNow approvals evidence).

• Manage end-to-end releases (Dev QA Pre-Prod Prod) with minimal risk.

Cross-Functional Delivery & Leadership

• Partner with Product QA Security Cloud and DBA teams.

• Translate requirements into technical designs impact analysis and delivery plans.

• Manage parallel AMS development and release streams with clear status reporting.

• Provide effort estimation planning and stakeholder alignment.

• Mentor junior engineers and drive engineering and operational maturity.

AI-Augmented Engineering

• Leverage Generative AI for coding debugging test automation and documentation.

• Enable AI-driven quality engineering code reviews and productivity improvements.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Degree or equivalent and typically requires 4 years of relevant experience

Skills and Qualifications:

• 4 years experience in Java / Spring Boot / Microservices development.

• Strong experience in Application Maintenance & Support (AMS) / Production Support (ITIL).

• Proven expertise in DevOps CI/CD and Release Engineering.

• Advanced skills in troubleshooting (logs metrics APM tools like Dynatrace).

• Experience with cloud-native / hybrid cloud architectures.

Preferred

• Experience with Kubernetes Docker Redis Elastic Kafka CDC patterns.

• Exposure to GCP operations.

• Strong Jira workflows prioritization and reporting skills.

• Experience with eCommerce / B2B platforms at scale.

Technical Skills:

Languages & Frameworks:

Java Spring Boot Microservices REST APIs JSON React

Databases & Platforms:

Oracle DB Bloomreach Endeca

DevOps & CI/CD:
GitHub Actions (mandatory) Git Jenkins Concourse Bamboo JFrog

Cloud & Infrastructure:
GCP Azure AWS Kubernetes Docker

Observability & Security:
Dynatrace ELK/EFK Stack Veracode

Tools & Governance:
ServiceNow Jira (Advanced) Gradle IntelliJ Postman Azure CLI

Education:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

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 8000 employees a network of 15 distribution centers and approximately 900 delivery vehicles we partner with more than 2200 leading manufacturers and serve over 200000 customer accounts across the U.S. Our catalog includes more than 280000 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 MMSs 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 its a unique moment to join a team thats 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 Level - P3

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