Sr. Application Infrastructure Engineer

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 16 Nov 2026

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend life. Our 95000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72 million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose growth and impact.

Imagine being at the forefront of medical innovation where your infrastructure work directly enables life-saving technology. Medtronic is looking for an experienced infrastructure engineer to help build and run the cloud infrastructure behind the Affera Digital Platform which is transforming cardiac care.

This can be based out of our Newton MA or Mounds View MN office with a minimum of 4 days onsite.

In this role youll build operate and improve the cloud infrastructure that powers the Affera Digital Platform and keep it running smoothly for the people who depend on it. The platform supports mapper training clinical management quality investigation workflows and R&D. It runs on AWS across multiple regions orchestrates containerized workloads serves a modern web frontend manages a fleet of GPU instances for remote 3D visualization and handles data ingestion pipelines. Youll ensure the platform is secure reliable and compliant with healthcare requirements including comprehensive audit trails.

Primary Responsibilities

Your time will be split roughly evenly between two areas:

• On the reliability side youll be a US-based point of contact for the platform: investigating issues as they come up improving monitoring alerting and dashboards and turning recurring problems into lasting fixes.

• On the infrastructure and developer experience side youll evolve our Terraform-based AWS infrastructure along with the CI/CD pipelines environments and tooling our engineers use every day making it faster and safer to ship as more of our development is done alongside AI agents.

• Youll work closely with backend frontend and DevOps engineers across the US and Europe partner with Medtronic security and cloud teams on reviews and compliance and contribute to architecture decisions around scalability cost and security.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree and a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience OR Masters degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience OR PhD with 0 years relevant experience

• Terraform at scale: modular design state management multi-environment and multi-region deployments

• AWS (ex: ECS/Fargate EC2 and Auto Scaling Lambda RDS S3 CloudFront ALB)

• Observability and troubleshooting experience (ex: CloudWatch or similar alerting dashboards root cause analysis)

• CI/CD (GitLab CI or similar) Docker/ECR and developer environment tooling

• Experience with cloud security and working through securityreviews (ex: VPC networking IAM KMS encryption WAF)

Preferred Qualifications

• Healthcare or regulated-industry compliance (HIPAA FDA)

• Comfortable reading and writing Python

• GPU EC2 workloads Packer AMI builds or remote visualization (e.g. Amazon DCV)

• AWS Batch or data pipeline infrastructure

• FastAPI Celery or PostgreSQL

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For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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.

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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):$136800.00 - $205200.00

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.

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