We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 20 Nov 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

The Director, Cloud Engineering, will be responsible for the overall company-wide cloud strategy and account footprint, core infrastructure, and cloud architecture advice and support.

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.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Responsible for ensuring the scalability, reliability, and security of the company's cloud environments and technologies 

• Setting strategic directions for cloud engineering, designing modern architectures for multi-cloud deployments, evaluating future technical solutions, and assessing security risks 

• Work closely with leaders in Product Engineering, Global Engineering, Infrastructure, Operations, Security Architecture, and solution stakeholders to develop a premier cloud ecosystem to support platform evolution and delivery velocity 

• Lead and grow the Cloud Engineering team, fostering a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and continuous learning 

• Cloud Infrastructure - Own the design, implementation, and scalability of our AWS-based and Azure-based infrastructure, including networking, compute, storage 

• Ensure high availability, performance, and resilience of production systems across services and environments 

• Collaborate with Cybersecurity to automate security best practices, vulnerability management, and compliance controls  

• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable and highly available cloud infrastructure solutions 

• Utilize Cloud tools and methodologies to assess, plan, and execute migrations of workloads to the new platforms 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless application migrations across compute, storage, networking, and security 

• Evolve our CI/CD pipelines for rapid, safe, and reliable deployments across all engineering teams 

• Drive improvements in monitoring, logging, and tracing using modern observability tools (e.g., Datadog) 

• Proactively manage cloud cost efficiency while ensuring performance and redundancy standards 

• Develop and manage a FinOps and Cloud Enablement function that partners with business and engineering teams to optimize cost, performance, and speed to market  

• Promote governance-by-design through infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, and intelligent automation to ensure secure, compliant, and scalable cloud operations  

Knowledge and Skills: 

• Proven success leading high-availability, large-scale infrastructure in AWS, Azure or other major cloud environments 

• Deep expertise in container orchestration, and clo