Sr. Specialist, Cybersecurity Engineering

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The Cybersecurity Engineering plays a critical leadership role in designing implementing and optimizing advanced security solutions across McKessons cloud onpremises and OT environments. This position integrates complex security requirements into system software and infrastructure design ensuring that solutions meet regulatory expectations while strengthening enterprise resilience. This role leads the implementation and monitoring of security controls driving proactive risk mitigation and operational transparency across the technology landscape.

This role contributes to security architecture decisions advanced remediation strategies and major incident investigations. It involves shaping future security capabilities by partnering with crossfunctional teams assessing new technologies and developing security standards and guidelines. This position provides subject matter expertise influences strategic direction and mentors junior team members to elevate capability across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of advanced security solutions and architectures ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and regulatory requirements.

• Perform complex security assessments including penetration testing risk analysis and evaluation of emerging threats to guide decisionmaking.

• Lead incident response and forensic investigations for major security incidents determining root causes and driving remediation plans.

• Develop and maintain advanced security documentation standards and guidelines to promote consistency and operational transparency.

• Drive improvements to security architecture and controls by identifying gaps recommending solutions and influencing implementation approaches.

• Collaborate with crossfunctional teams on secure system and software development ensuring security requirements are embedded early in design.

• Evaluate emerging security technologies tools and industry trends to inform strategic planning and future capability development.

• Work with vendors to assess design and implement advanced security products and managed services.

• Provide technical leadership mentor junior and midlevel engineering team members and contribute to building a highperforming security engineering practice.

• Participate in business continuity and disaster recovery planning by offering architectural input and validating system readiness.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent combination of education and experience. Typically requires 7 years of progressive experience in cybersecurity engineering architecture or infrastructure security roles.

• Deep knowledge of IT and cybersecurity concepts with the ability to influence architectural decisions and align solutions with business needs.

• Experience leading incident response performing complex assessments evaluating new technologies and partnering with vendors on advanced security in building resilient platforms across Cloud Security Communications Security Cryptography and Cyber Resiliency principles.

• Proficiency in incident leadership including performing incident responses coordinating containment and structured preparing reports.

• Ability to engineer for threat visibility via tuning network sensors log/telemetry enablement and robust performing event correlation patterns.

• Proficiency in threatinformed investigations: performing behavioral analysis performing malicious activity analysis and processing digital evidence.

• Ability to identify weaknesses by identifying systems designed without security considerations and driving remediation with owners.

• Proficiency in platform lifecycle hygiene including installing system and component upgrades and durable rollback strategies.

• Proficiency in pipeline hardening using DevSecOps practices and writing code in a currently supported programming language for automation checks and integrations.

• Ability to handle complex production realities by troubleshooting cyber defense infrastructure anomalies and troubleshooting system performance.

• Proficiency in identity/crypto engineering including implementing user credential management systems and implementing enterprise key escrow systems.

• Ability to communicate clearly through preparing briefings and actionable technical runbooks for operations teams.

About MMS

McKesson Medical-Surgical (MMS) which is expected to become Wellverse in early 2027 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 collaborate with more than 2200 leading manufacturers and serve over 200000 customer accounts across the U.S. Our catalog includes more than 270000 SKUs of branded and private-label medical-surgical products from bandages to specialty pharmaceuticals and COVID-19 tests.

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 McKessons 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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