Job Summary

The Application Platform Manager will be responsible for the organization's portfolio of business applications across various departments. This will include development, implementation, upgrades, daily management, and maintenance, Stakeholder management, application availability, system and people performance will be part of the critical responsibilities.

Job Description

Here is a great opportunity to join a great company! Medline Industries has enjoyed DOUBLE DIGIT GROWTH for 55 of the past 56 years! We've again been named to the Chicago Tribune's Top Workplaces, and we're again on the list of Becker's Great Places to Work in Healthcare.

Job Summary

Medline is seeking an IT Platform Manager to lead our Supply Chain Technology (SCT) platform services team. This role is responsible for the reliability, performance, and modernization of infrastructure, platform services, and automation capabilities across our logistics environments. The manager will oversee a team of platform engineers, and automation specialists—both onshore and offshore—focused on delivering cloud migration, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and platform lifecycle automation. This role blends people leadership, technical strategy, and operational governance, ensuring that platform services scale efficiently while meeting evolving business and compliance needs.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Strategy & Cloud Modernization

Lead the migration of supply chain applications and infrastructure to Azure cloud, ensuring performance, security, and cost-effectiveness through platform automation and engineering best practices.
Define and execute the strategic roadmap for platform engineering, infrastructure automation, observability, and lifecycle management (installation, patching, configuration, etc.).

Automation & Tooling

Drive adoption and implementation of automation tools and frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, SALT, Python, and PowerShell across Windows and Linux environments.
Oversee automation of platform and application deployments, environment provisioning, configuration management, and operational workflows in both on-premises and cloud environments.
Define metrics to evaluate automation effectiveness, platform consistency, and infrastructure scalability.

Reliability Engineering & Observability

Champion SRE practices including SLIs/SLOs, incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems.
Oversee observability strategy including implementation and tuning of monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., LogicMonitor, Splunk, AppDynamics).
Continuously improve platform resiliency and proactively reduce operational toil through automation and systemic fixes.

Leadership & Team Development

Lead and mentor a global team of SREs, platform engineers, and automation developers; foster a culture of accountability, growth, and high performance.
Hire, coach, and develop team members while setting clear performance goals aligned with enterprise IT strategy.
Oversee team structure, resource planning, and execution across multiple automation and platform initiatives.

Governance, Compliance & Operational Readiness

Ensure automation and platform processes are fully documented with up-to-date runbooks and SOPs.
Collaborate with audit and compliance teams to support evidence collection and remediation for infrastructure controls.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Act as the primary liaison between Platform Services and business-facing application, DevOps, and infrastructure teams.
Partner with senior IT and business leaders to align platform capabilities with business priorities and logistics support needs.
Manage vendor relationships and contracts related to platform tools, observability, automation frameworks, and third-party services.

Required Skills and Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
10+ years of IT experience with 4+ years in a leadership role managing infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps engineering teams.
Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including cloud-native infrastructure design, automation, monitoring, and cost optimization.
Hands-on experience with infrastructure automation and scripting (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, SALT, Python, PowerShell).
Experience managing hybrid environments across on-prem and cloud platforms (Azure preferred).
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling (e.g., GitLab, Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube).
Strong knowledge of system patching, and platform governance practices.
Proven ability to lead technical teams, manage complex projects, and influence stakeholders at all levels.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to present platform strategy, KPIs, and risks to senior leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience leading cloud platform transformations in a large enterprise.
Background in supply chain or logistics systems support.
Experience managing performance reviews, pay recommendations, and staff development initiatives.
Exposure to container orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift) and infrastructure monitoring platforms.

If you meet the above qualifications and are looking for a challenging opportunity to lead and enhance the IT Platform Automation capabilities within a dynamic IS environment, we encourage you to apply for the position.

More About Medline:
Medline is the largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of healthcare supplies in the United States, providing more than 550,000 products that serve the entire continuum of care. Our innovative products and programs can be found in most hospitals, extended-care facilities, surgery centers, physician offices, home care dealers, home health agencies and retail outlets.

Founded in 1910, Medline has grown from a small manufacturer of aprons, surgical gowns and uniforms to a thriving $20 billion global enterprise because of our dedicated people, entrepreneurial spirit and honest values.

Again, named one of the country’s "Best and Brightest Companies to Work For,” and once again named to Chicago Tribune’s Top Workplaces, Medline has experienced fifty-plus years of consecutive annual growth, and is headquartered in Northfield, IL.

Medline Industries, LP, and its subsidiaries, offer a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.

The anticipated salary range for this position:

$115,440.00 - $173,160.00 Annual

The actual salary will vary based on applicant’s location, education, experience, skills, and abilities. This role is bonus and/or incentive eligible. Medline will not pay less than the applicable minimum wage or salary threshold.

Our benefit package includes health insurance, life and disability, 401(k) contributions, paid time off, etc., for employees working 30 or more hours per week on average. For a more comprehensive list of our benefits please click here. For roles where employees work less than 30 hours per week, benefits include 401(k) contributions as well as access to the Employee Assistance Program, Employee Resource Groups and the Employee Service Corp.

We’re dedicated to creating a Medline where everyone feels they belong and can grow their career. We strive to do this by seeking diversity in all forms, acting inclusively, and ensuring that people have tools and resources to perform at their best. Explore our Belonging page here.

Medline Industries, LP is an equal opportunity employer. Medline evaluates qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, neurodivergence, protected veteran status, marital or family status, caregiver responsibilities, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.