Medtronic

Platform engineer

In short

Platform engineering role at Medtronic, a global healthcare technology company, maintaining Infrastructure as Code (OpenTofu, EKS, Helm), CI/CD pipelines and observability tooling for engineers. Requires platform/DevOps/SRE experience, distributed systems design in production, and proficiency with cloud platforms (preferably AWS); candidates must be willing to commute to London 2–3 days a week. The role demands strong experience navigating ambiguity and a solid understanding of architectural trade-offs around performance, scalability and reliability.

About Medtronic
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 95,000 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.
Responsibilities
•Enhance and maintain our Infrastructure as Code repository to give all our engineers the best cloud resource support.
•Contribute to our CI/CD pipelines to drive further efficiency of our engineers – automate everything where possible.
•Provide observability tools to engineers so they can self-discover issues.
•Find gaps in developer productivity and design, implement solutions to solve them.
•Provide technical mentorship to others, inside and outside of the team.
Requirements
•Platform engineering, DevOps, or site reliability engineering experience, working with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools – we use OpenTofu, EKS and Helm.
•Track record of successfully navigating ambiguity, including making progress with incomplete information, breaking down complex problems, and adapting approach as requirements evolve.
•Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in production, with solid understanding of architectural trade-offs involving performance, scalability, and reliability.
•Proficiency with cloud platforms (preferably AWS), databases, APIs, and modern DevOps practice.
•Must be willing to commute to London 2–3 days per week, with flexibility around the exact arrangement.
Nice to have
•Experience with designing golden paths for internal software engineers - internal developer platforms, developer experience products.
•Experience with Python - when we cannot leverage IaC our code is Python based.
•Experience with deploying production GitOps platforms that manage deployments of multiple applications effectively.
•Familiarity with Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) engineering – platform engineering means we have a duty to address our security and compliance issues through automated means.
•Experience with Agentic AI infrastructure – you have built an AI coding agent that goes beyond markdown files on an IDE.
Conditions
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.
Pay range for United Kingdom: 95,200.00 GBP - 142,800.00 GBP. The final salary within this range will be determined based on objective, job-related criteria, including relevant experience, skills and qualifications, in accordance with our compensation framework. This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

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