Principal Software Cloud Engineer - Hybrid Cloud Platform Owner
About The Position
The Principal Software Cloud Engineer serves as the technical leader and product owner for Medtronic’s hybrid cloud platform. The role defines platform strategy, prioritizes capabilities, guides infrastructure modernization, and ensures the platform provides scalable, secure, and reliable services for enterprise workloads, modern applications, and artificial intelligence enablement. The Cloud Platform Services team enables Medtronic’s global technology infrastructure, platforms, and services supporting enterprise applications, data, automation, and emerging AI capabilities. This position is based in Mounds View, Minnesota, and follows a hybrid onsite schedule: employees are expected to work onsite four days per week and remotely one day per week.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with at least 7 years of infrastructure, cloud platform, or systems engineering experience, or an advanced degree with at least 5 years of such experience.
- Experience with VMware infrastructure or Nutanix platforms and large-scale migration initiatives.
- Experience supporting hybrid cloud, virtualization, or enterprise infrastructure environments.
- Experience leading technical initiatives, platform ownership, or cross-functional technology programs.
- Experience with infrastructure automation, scripting, or Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
- Experience translating business requirements into technical solutions and platform priorities.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, VMware Aria, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, Rancher, or related cloud infrastructure technologies.
- Experience with public cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Experience supporting artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), graphics processing unit (GPU), or high-performance computing environments.
- Experience with FinOps practices, cloud cost optimization, total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis, and chargeback/showback models.
- Experience working with global, offshore, and multi-time-zone technical teams.
- Certification in VMware, Nutanix, AWS, or Azure.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the hybrid cloud platform roadmap aligned to enterprise infrastructure strategy.
- Serve as technical product owner for global private cloud services and platform capabilities.
- Lead platform architecture decisions that improve scalability, reliability, security, and operational performance.
- Drive infrastructure modernization initiatives, including virtualization and cloud platform transformation efforts.
- Partner with application, architecture, engineering, operations, security, and finance teams to prioritize platform investments and capabilities.
- Advance automation through Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), and platform engineering practices.
- Establish platform standards, governance, documentation, and operational processes to improve consistency and service reliability.
- Communicate platform priorities, dependencies, risks, and technology decisions to technical and business stakeholders.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and flexible benefits package.
- Short-term incentive through the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
- 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.
- Incentive plans.
- 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
