Principal Application Infrastructure Engineer
About The Position
Medtronic is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to build and operate the cloud infrastructure behind the Affera Digital Platform, which supports cardiac care workflows including mapper training, clinical management, quality investigations, and research and development. The platform runs on AWS across multiple regions, orchestrates containerized workloads, serves a modern web frontend, manages GPU instances for remote 3D visualization, and handles data ingestion pipelines. The engineer will help set technical direction and ensure the platform remains secure, reliable, and compliant with healthcare requirements, including comprehensive audit trails. The position can be based in the Newton, Massachusetts, or Mounds View, Minnesota, office and requires at least four days onsite. Work is split roughly evenly between reliability responsibilities and infrastructure and developer-experience work. The engineer will serve as a US-based point of contact for platform issues, improve monitoring and tooling, and evolve Terraform-based AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, environments, and developer tools. The role collaborates with engineering teams in the US and Europe and partners with Medtronic security and cloud teams on reviews, compliance, and 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, or 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, or WAF.
Nice To Haves
- Healthcare or regulated-industry compliance experience, such as HIPAA or FDA.
- 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
- Help set the technical direction for the cloud infrastructure behind the Affera Digital Platform.
- Operate and maintain the platform to support its reliability, security, and compliance requirements.
- Serve as a US-based point of contact for the platform and investigate issues as they arise.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, and dashboards, and turn recurring problems into lasting fixes.
- Evolve Terraform-based AWS infrastructure, including infrastructure across environments and regions.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines, environments, and developer tooling to make software delivery faster and safer.
- Work with backend, frontend, and DevOps engineers across the US and Europe.
- Partner with Medtronic security and cloud teams on reviews and compliance.
- Contribute to architecture decisions involving scalability, cost, and security.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and flexible benefits package.
- Medtronic Incentive Plan (short-term incentive).
- 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.
- Simple Steps global well-being program.
- 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
