Principal Application Infrastructure Engineer
About The Position
Medtronic is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to help build and operate the AWS cloud infrastructure behind the Affera Digital Platform, which supports mapper training, clinical management, quality investigation workflows, and R&D. The platform runs across multiple AWS regions, orchestrates containerized workloads, serves a modern web frontend, manages GPU instances for remote 3D visualization, and operates data ingestion pipelines. The role helps set technical direction and keep the platform secure, reliable, and compliant with healthcare requirements, including comprehensive audit trails. The position is based at the Newton, Massachusetts, or Mounds View, Minnesota, office, with a minimum of four days onsite. Work is divided roughly evenly between reliability responsibilities and infrastructure and developer-experience work. The engineer serves as a US-based platform contact, investigates issues, improves monitoring and alerting, and resolves recurring problems. They also evolve Terraform-based AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, environments, and engineering tools to make delivery faster and safer. The role collaborates with backend, frontend, and DevOps engineers in the US and Europe, partners with Medtronic security and cloud teams on reviews and compliance, and contributes to architecture decisions involving scalability, cost, and security.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and at least 7 years of relevant experience, or a master's degree and at least 5 years of relevant experience, or a PhD and at least 3 years of relevant experience.
- Experience with Terraform at scale, including modular design, state management, and multi-environment and multi-region deployments.
- AWS experience, such as ECS/Fargate, EC2 and Auto Scaling, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFront, and ALB.
- Observability and troubleshooting experience, such as CloudWatch or similar tools, alerting, dashboards, and root cause analysis.
- Experience with CI/CD (GitLab CI or similar), Docker/ECR, and developer environment tooling.
- Experience with cloud security and working through security reviews, such as VPC networking, IAM, KMS encryption, and WAF.
- For baccalaureate degrees earned outside the United States, a degree satisfying the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with healthcare or regulated-industry compliance, such as HIPAA or FDA requirements.
- Comfort reading and writing Python.
- Experience with GPU EC2 workloads, Packer AMI builds, or remote visualization such as Amazon DCV.
- Experience with AWS Batch or data pipeline infrastructure.
- Experience with FastAPI, Celery, or PostgreSQL.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a US-based point of contact for the platform and investigate operational issues.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, and dashboards, and perform root cause analysis.
- Turn recurring operational problems into lasting fixes.
- Evolve the Terraform-based AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, environments, and developer tooling.
- Help make software delivery faster and safer as development increasingly involves AI agents.
- Collaborate with backend, frontend, and DevOps engineers across the US and Europe.
- Partner with Medtronic security and cloud teams on security reviews and compliance.
- Contribute to architecture decisions related to scalability, cost, and security.
- Help ensure the platform remains secure, reliable, and compliant with healthcare requirements, including comprehensive audit trails.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability leave
- Dependent daycare spending account
- Tuition assistance or reimbursement
- Global well-being program
- Incentive plans, including a short-term Medtronic Incentive Plan
- 401(k) plan with employer contribution and match
- Short-term disability
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement, subject to IRS earning minimums
- Capital Accumulation Plan, available to Vice Presidents and above or subject to IRS earning minimums
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
