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

At Medtronic, we contribute to human welfare and wellbeing through biomedical engineering. Everyday we’re involved in meaningful work to change people’s lives and health for the better. Now is your chance to join a talented team of infrastructure software engineers focused on providing software development pipelines and frameworks to our research scientists, medical device manufacturing teams, regulatory, IT, marketing, and sales teams across our company. Our small product teams focus on several platforms and pipelines including Kubernetes and container services and technologies, full-stack observability, application CI/CD DevSecOps deployment pipelines, as well as global source code and binary repository services.
This position as Platform Engineer focuses on continuing to innovate, extend, and deploy our internally developed platforms based on opensource standards used for deploying and managing Gitlab and JFrog Artifactory services; these services are currently hosted in both our internal datacenters and in their respective vendor SaaS platforms. Your assignment is to meet the technology and streamlined platform needs for our Medtronic’s business units source code management or binary release management. Our platform is built and managed using programmatic pipelines developed and managed using a variety of software code and scripting languages, including but limited to, Terraform, Golang, CloudFormation, Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD, Lambda, some Python, and Java scripting

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 real-time and always available self-service capabilities to run and manage their own development teams

• 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 

Bachelor’s degree and min 3+yrs of related experience

Nice to Have

• 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 Python, Go.
• Experience writing IaC using Terraform, preferably, GitLab CI/CD or Jenkins
• Production experience with Containerization and Container Orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes; expected to have experience using either Argo CD or 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.
• Good to have Gitlabs and Jfrog, terraform cloud migration experience.
• Good to have CI/CD pipelines creation using yaml.
• Good to have working experience in monitoring tools like Grafana/Dynatrace dashboards.

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