Leader, Core Platform & Identity Services

Medtronic

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New York City, NY - USA

profile Monthly Salary: $ 156000 - 234000
Posted on: 11 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 30 Jan 2026


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

The Leader of Core Platform & Identity Services is responsible for the strategy reliability security and operational excellence of the companys core digital infrastructure and identity platforms. This role leads the teams that design operate and continuously improve private cloud hosting datacenter services and enterprise identity services that underpin all digital products and business operations.

The role ensures highly available scalable and resilient platforms through modern Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices strong security controls and proactive observability. As a foundational digital leader this position partners closely with Security Cloud Product and Enterprise Architecture teams to enable business growth while maintaining stability compliance and cost efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

Platform & Infrastructure Leadership

  • Own the end-to-end strategy and operations for private cloud hosting and datacenter environments including compute storage and virtualization platforms

  • Lead capacity planning performance engineering and scalability initiatives to meet current and future business demands

  • Establish and operate resilience backup and disaster recovery strategies aligned to business continuity requirements

Reliability & Engineering Excellence

  • Implement and mature Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices including SLIs SLOs error budgets and incident management

  • Drive automation standardization and infrastructure-as-code to improve reliability speed and operational efficiency

  • Lead post-incident reviews and continuous improvement programs focused on reducing risk and improving service availability

Internet & Identity Services

  • Own enterprise internet services including internal and external DNS domain portfolio management and SSL certificate lifecycle management

  • Ensure secure reliable managed file transfer services for internal and external business use cases

  • Lead Active Directory and Microsoft Entra (Azure AD) platforms including authentication authorization and identity lifecycle integrations

Observability & Operations

  • Establish comprehensive monitoring logging and alerting across infrastructure and identity platforms

  • Ensure proactive detection of performance availability and security issues through modern observability tooling

  • Define and report on operational KPIs SLAs and XLAs to executive stakeholders

Security Risk & Compliance

  • Partner with Cybersecurity and Risk teams to ensure platforms meet security regulatory and compliance requirements

  • Reduce operational and cyber risk through strong controls access governance and secure platform design

  • Support audits regulatory reviews and risk assessments related to infrastructure and identity services

Financial & Vendor Management

  • Own operational budgets cost optimization initiatives and vendor relationships for private cloud datacenter and internet services

  • Drive transparency and financial discipline through capacity forecasting cost modeling and vendor performance management

Leadership & Talent Development

  • Build lead and develop high-performing infrastructure and SRE teams

  • Foster a culture of accountability engineering excellence and continuous learning

  • Establish clear career paths skill development plans and succession strategies

Required Qualifications

  • 10 years of experience in infrastructure platform or reliability engineering leadership roles

  • Proven experience operating private cloud datacenter and enterprise identity platforms at scale

  • Strong background in SRE high-availability architectures and disaster recovery

  • Hands-on knowledge of Active Directory and Microsoft Entra (Azure AD)

  • Experience with DNS SSL certificate management and internet-facing enterprise services

  • Demonstrated ability to lead complex mission-critical platforms in regulated environments

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in cloud-adjacent or hybrid environments (private cloud integrated with public cloud)

  • Familiarity with modern observability platforms and AIOps capabilities

  • Experience supporting business separations carve-outs or large-scale platform transformations

Success Measures

  • Platform availability reliability and resilience metrics consistently meeting or exceeding targets

  • Reduction in incident frequency and severity through proactive engineering practices

  • Improved time-to-detect and time-to-restore for infrastructure and identity services

  • Strong security and audit outcomes with minimal operational risk exposure

  • High team engagement retention and leadership bench strength

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):$156000.00 - $234000.00

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

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 addition Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic Inc. (Medtronic) in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County you can findhere a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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