Principal Software Devops Engineer chez Medtronic

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

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

• 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 with real-time and always available self-service capabilities to run and manage their own development teams
• Partner with Global engineering teams, architecture and security leaders to establish best practices for CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Iac), Observability and cost optimization.
• Mentor and guide devops engineers fostering a culture of automation, innovation and excellence.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, frameworks and platforms to recommend adoption where beneficial.
• 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

Must Have: Minimum Requirements 

Doctorate degree OR Master’s degree

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 12 to 14 years of experience

Qualification and Experience

      Must Have

• A degree in computer science, EE, physics, mathematics, or related field
• Experience writing IaC using Terraform, preferably, or OpenTofu, GitLab CI/CD or Jenkins
• Strong experience with Containerization and Container Orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes both On- prem and Cloud environment.
• Experience in developing backend services using programming language Python or Go.
• 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 AWS or Azure
• Oversee the design and optimization of CI/CD pipelines using Yaml (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, etc.).
• Establish automated testing, security scanning, and compliance integration into pipelines.
• Define observability strategies using monitoring/logging/alerting platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Datadog, Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, etc.).
• Implement SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, chaos engineering, incident response playbooks).
• Champion security practices such as secrets management, policy enforcement, vulnerability scanning, and zero-trust architecture.
• Have a track record of being willing and able to learn new technologies at a rapid pace.
• Experience implementing observability, SRE practices, and security controls.
• Strategic thinker with ability to balance speed, reliability, and cost.
• Strong communication skills to collaborate with engineering leaders and executives.
• Ability to mentor engineers and build a high-performance DevOps culture.
• Comfortably influencing architectural decisions and advocating best practices.
• Gitlabs and Jfrog, terraform cloud migration experience.
• Good to have experience working with Tanzu, OpenShift platforms.
• Background in performance engineering and chaos testing.
• Knowledge of cost optimization strategies in cloud infrastructure.

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 95,000+ 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