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At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll 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

• Bachelors 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 participating in on-call rotation.
• Strong problem-solving and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience with programming languages Java Python and C#.
• Experience with AzDo and or Github
• Passion for creating high quality software and documentation
• Strong collaboration and influence skills to succeed in a high matrix environment.
• Proven ability to operate in a matrix organization and work effectively with senior leadership customers and across geographic cultural and organization boundaries.

About Medtronic

Together we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic we push the limits of what technology therapies and services 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.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Lets work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)

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.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

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.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$155200.00 - $232800.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

The base salary range is applicable across the United States excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience certification/education market conditions and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20 hours per week: Health Dental and vision insuranceHealth Savings AccountHealthcare Flexible Spending AccountLife insurance Long-term disability leaveDependent daycare spending accountTuition assistance/reimbursement andSimple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees:Incentive plans 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and matchShort-term disabilityPaid time offPaid holidaysEmployee Stock Purchase PlanEmployee Assistance ProgramNon-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums) andCapital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time as required under applicable state law and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

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 95000 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.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law. In addition Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.