Sr Software Dev Ops Engineer

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.

In general, the following responsibilities apply for the Sr. Software DevOps Engineer role. This includes, but is not limited to the following:

• Solid understanding of distributed systems, containers (Docker), Kubernetes, and microservices observability patterns.
• Proven track record implementing Terraform and GitOps practices to enable scalable, reliable, and automated infrastructure delivery.
• Own the architecture, implementation, and lifecycle management of the observability platform (Elastic Cloud, Dynatrace, Prometheus, & more).
• Lead efforts to improve logging, monitoring, metrics collection, distributed tracing, and alerting across cloud-native applications.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, and Architecture teams to define SLIs/SLOs and implement robust observability standards.
• Evangelize for all observability-related initiatives and mentor junior engineers in best practices.
• Integrate observability tools into CI/CD pipelines to enable proactive detection and incident response.
• Participate in on-call rotations and post-incident reviews, driving reliability improvements across the platform.

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE, PLEASE BE SURE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ARE EVIDENT ON YOUR RESUME

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience SRE, observability, platform engineering, or related fields, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years of technical experience.

• Deep expertise in managing Elastic Cloud (Kibana, Beats, Logstash, Index Lifecycle Policies).
• Hands-on experience with Dynatrace and Prometheus monitoring stacks, including exporter management and custom dashboards.
• Strong experience with AWS services (EC2, EKS, S3, IAM, etc.) and Streaming framework (Kafka etc.)
• Optimize cost, performance, and scalability of observability services within AWS.
• Proven leadership and mentorship experience; ability to lead cross-functional projects and develop junior team members.
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or similar) for automation and integration.
• Define and enforce data retention, access control, and multi-tenant observability strategies for Elastic and Prometheus.

• Excellent communication and documentation skills.

• Experience with OpenTelemetry or other open standards for observability.
• Familiarity with cost optimization strategies in observability tooling.
• Exposure to compliance frameworks (HIPAA, ISO 27001) in observability contexts.

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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. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.

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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. 

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