We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 25 May 2025

 

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

Principal Software DevOps Engineer

Careers That Change Lives

Transforming Patient Management with Smart Technology!

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology 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. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Software develops the next generation medical technologies that alleviate pain, restore health and extend life for millions of patients across the world. We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

We are seeking a talented Principal DevOps Engineer to join our Patient Care System (PCS) Software division. As the Principal DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for the health, observability, and maintainability of our production environment, as well as the auxiliary components that support our day-to-day operations.

The ideal candidate will have a background in observability, cloud-native technologies, system administration, network and storage management, and programming.

We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

This position is in Mounds View, MN within the Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) operating unit and requires on-site presence three days a week.

Day in the Life: 

In general, the following responsibilities apply for the Principal Software DevOps Engineer role. This includes, but is not limited to the following:

• Ensuring that environments are up and running by monitoring availability and performance through a holistic view of system health. 
• Identifying and utilizing Service Level Indicators and Service Level Objectives to meet availability and latency goals, while guiding incremental improvements. 
• Gathering and analyzing metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in identifying issues and performing root cause analysis for highly impactful incidents. 
• Troubleshooting production incidents, participating in blameless post-mortems, and ensuring thorough follow-up actions. 
• Providing hands-on leadership, coaching, mentoring, and promoting software engineering best practices to junior DevOps engineers.
• Participating in process improvement initiatives for the software team, including recognizing areas for improvement and collaborating with others to develop and document these enhancements. 

Specialized Knowledge Required:

• Serve as a subject matter expert in observability and monitoring. 
• Experience with application performance monitoring tools, such as Dynatrace and Prometheus. 
• Knowledge of best practices for observability and monitoring required to operate Kubernetes at scale. 
• Expertise in maintaining scalable and stable ELK environments. 
• Experience deploying infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) utilities, such as Terraform and Ansible. 
• Hands-on experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD automation processes and pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, Flux, GitHub). 

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Qualifications

Must Have - Minimum Requirements

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE, PLEASE BE SURE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ARE EVIDENT ON YOUR RESUME

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience with Software Verification and /or Test Systems Development, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of technical experience.

Nice to Have 

• Experience managing cloud scalability or mission-critical environments. 
• A mindset focused on repeatability, testability, observability, and reversibility in all tasks. 
• Prior experience partici