We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 18 Oct 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

We are seeking a hands-on, strategic Sr. IT Program Manager-Network Operations to build/modernize, scale, and safeguard a global network supporting all diabetes businesses and partners. This leader will drive both technical excellence and operational strategy, combining deep engineering expertise with a vision for continuous innovation and business alignment.

This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronic's Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic, subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential, enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.

The ideal candidate will build and lead a globally distributed network operations team, set architectural and operational roadmaps, tackle high-severity incidents, and deliver transformational improvements in automation, resilience, and performance. Success in this role demands ownership, precision under pressure, and the ability to influence technology and business stakeholders alike.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own the stability, security, and scalability of Minimed global enterprise network (LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, wireless, firewalls) across cloud and on-prem environments.

• Define and drive the network modernization roadmap — leading initiatives around automation, zero-trust architecture, performance engineering, and resiliency.

• Lead a high-performing team of network engineers; set technical standards, enforce accountability, and develop engineering talent.

• Act as top-tier escalation and incident commander for critical network events — diagnosing in real-time and leading rapid recovery efforts.

• Design, configure, and optimize core infrastructure — you will remain hands-on in shaping network evolution.

• Build and maintain strong cross-functional partnerships with Security, DevOps, Engineering, and Business Operations to support hybrid, high-growth environments.

• Lead network capacity planning, lifecycle refreshes, and risk mitigation programs with a focus on proactive resilience.

• Drive full-stack observability — improving telemetry, actionable alerts, and predictive analytics using SolarWinds or similar platforms.

• Champion firewall policy enforcement, segmentation, and secure remote access strategies alongside Information Security teams.

• Maintain compliance with regulatory frameworks, internal controls, and change management governance.

• Define and report operational KPIs (uptime, MTTR, change success rates) to IT and executive leadership, driving transparency and continuous improvement.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident in your applicant profile.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other relevant field and 7+ years experience in enterprise Networking

OR

Advanced degree in Computer Science or other relevant field and 5+ years experience in enterprise Networking

Nice to Have

• 10+ years experience in enterprise Networking

• 5+ years leading technical teams

• Experience with SD-WAN technologies

• Experience managing a multi-vendor network

• Experience with Fortinet and/or Palo Alto Firewall platforms

• Building and operating AWS and Azure cloud environments

• ITIL Foundation v3/v4

• Proven ability to balance operational excellence with long-term strategic planning.

• Experienced in building high-accountability, high-performance engineering cultures.

• Own and optimize escalation models, on-call rotations, and incident management frameworks

• Enterprise network design, hybrid cloud networking (Azure and AWS), and security-integrated architectures.

• Advanced routing and switching (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP), Layer 2/3 designs, VLANs, VRFs, STP, HA topologies.

• Next-gen firewalls (Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks), wireless (Cisco and Meraki), VPNs/IPSec