At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

• Work closely with our existing Shared Services Engineering Team during our upcoming GitLab and JFrog platform redesign to ensure we have every element of the provisioning and management of our platform using programmatic Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for end-to-end automation
• Lead the design and development of our self-service Internal Development Platform (IDP) built on Port to provide our clients real-time and always available self-service capabilities to run and manage their own development teams
• Build test automation for the platform using a test framework to ensure all pipelines and code are stable, scalable, and can be rapidly regressed
• Participate in efforts to design, build, and develop rapid Proof-of-Concept (POC) solutions and services that quickly get added to our production service.  The rapid POC method has proven effective in enhancing our product in a rapidly evolving market.
• Work closely with our global security and identity access team to constantly keep our interfaces, access, identity, tokens, secrets, and all other security access and design specifications up-to-date and secure
• Work with our Site Reliability Engineering Team (SRE) and to develop full observability, monitoring, and programmatic self-healing for the platform
• Be engaged, skilled, and eager to work closely with stakeholders and clients and create positive interactions and relationships to continue to drive the value of the platform higher for their business needs
• Be an integral member of technical staff and help develop, test, deploy, and operate our services 24x7x365 globally

Requirements 

Doctorate degree OR Master’s degree and 4+ years of related experience

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of related experience

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• A degree in computer science, EE, physics, mathematics, or related field
• Experience as a platform software engineer shipping multiple iterations of an internal platform and/or service to global enterprise clients and customers using a full SDLC process from start to finish
• Product development experience designing, developing, deploying, and operating globally scaled products with expectation for 100% uptime service
• Experience using Backstage or Port Internal Developer Platform (IDP) for developing self-service portals
• Experience using one or more general purpose programming languages which may include languages such as Golang, Rust, Java, C, C++, Python, or C#.
• Experience writing IaC using Terraform, preferably, or OpenTofu, GitLab CI/CD or Jenkins
• Production experience with Containerization and Container Orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes; expected to have experience using either Argo CD and Flux CD (we use both) as well as Helm
• Significant experience working at core levels of cloud computing in either AWS or Azure
• Have a track record of being willing and able to learn new technologies at a rapid pace 
• Communication skills to work with client partners being able to articulate the vision of automation, self-service, and programmatic RunOps
• Any experience or familiarity with FDA quality and validation processes is a plus

About Medtronic

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life.  We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.
 

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here