Principal Site Reliability Engineer
About The Position
As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer, you will own the end-to-end reliability, scale, and performance of MiniMed’s global healthcare platform built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The role bridges software engineering and systems operations, with a focus on HIPAA compliance, HITRUST standards, and cybersecurity frameworks. You will architect automated, self-healing platforms to keep life-critical applications highly available 24x7. The position involves designing and maintaining highly available AWS infrastructure, automating operations through infrastructure as code and GitOps, developing observability and alerting, leading incident response and blameless postmortems, supporting data-security compliance audits, and enabling developers to deploy cloud-native services safely through automated CI/CD guardrails.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 7 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree and at least 5 years of relevant experience.
Nice To Haves
- Deep architectural knowledge of AWS services, including VPC, EC2, ECS, IAM permission isolation, RDS, and DynamoDB.
- At least 5 years of dedicated Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps experience supporting production workloads at scale.
- Direct experience operating platforms in regulated environments subject to HIPAA, SOC 2, or FDA medical device software regulations such as IEC 62304.
- Extensive production experience configuring and troubleshooting containerized workloads using Amazon ECS.
- Ability to write systems tooling or automation scripts in Python, Go, or Bash.
Responsibilities
- Design, scale, and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant infrastructure on AWS, ensuring the architecture aligns with required security protocols.
- Eliminate manual operational tasks and champion GitOps practices by managing infrastructure as code, using tools such as CloudFormation.
- Build and mature telemetry frameworks with NewRelic, CloudWatch, and OpenSearch to monitor application health and detect system regressions.
- Lead high-severity incident responses as Incident Manager.
- Lead blameless postmortems and root cause analyses to drive long-term engineering remediations.
- Enforce technical safeguards across AWS data stores containing Protected Health Information (PHI).
- Support compliance engineering teams by generating data-encryption evidence and access logs for regulatory audits.
- Co-design cloud-native microservices with Core Engineering teams and build automated CI/CD guardrails that enable safe, autonomous deployments.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and flexible benefits package.
- Health insurance.
- Dental insurance.
- Vision insurance.
- Health Savings Account.
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account.
- Life insurance.
- Long-term disability leave.
- Dependent daycare spending account.
- Incentive plans.
- 401(k) plan with company match.
- Short-term disability coverage.
- Paid time off and holidays.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Eligible employees may receive a Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement and Capital Accumulation Plan, subject to IRS minimum earnings requirements.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
