Sr. Application Infrastructure Engineer
About The Position
Medtronic is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to build, operate, and improve the cloud infrastructure behind the Affera Digital Platform, which supports mapper training, clinical management, quality investigation workflows, 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 processes data ingestion pipelines. The engineer will help ensure the platform remains secure, reliable, and compliant with healthcare requirements, including comprehensive audit trails. The role is divided roughly evenly between reliability work and infrastructure and developer experience. The engineer will act as a US-based point of contact for platform issues, improve monitoring, alerting, and dashboards, and implement lasting fixes for recurring problems. They will also evolve Terraform-based AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, environments, and engineering tools to support faster and safer delivery, including development alongside AI agents. The engineer will work with backend, frontend, and DevOps engineers in the US and Europe; partner with Medtronic security and cloud teams on reviews and compliance; and contribute to architecture decisions concerning scalability, cost, and security. The position is based at either the Newton, Massachusetts or Mounds View, Minnesota office and requires at least four days onsite.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and at least 4 years of relevant experience, or a master's degree and at least 2 years of relevant experience, or a PhD with 0 years of relevant experience.
- Experience with Terraform at scale, including modular design, state management, and multi-environment and multi-region deployments.
- Experience with AWS services such as ECS/Fargate, EC2 and Auto Scaling, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFront, and ALB.
- Observability and troubleshooting experience, including CloudWatch or similar tools, alerting, dashboards, and root cause analysis.
- Experience with CI/CD such as GitLab CI or similar, Docker/ECR, and developer environment tooling.
- Experience with cloud security and security reviews, including areas such as VPC networking, IAM, KMS encryption, and 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
- Build, operate, and improve the AWS cloud infrastructure powering the Affera Digital Platform.
- Act as a US-based point of contact for platform reliability and investigate issues as they arise.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, and dashboards, and turn recurring issues into lasting fixes.
- Evolve Terraform-based AWS infrastructure, including multi-environment and multi-region deployments.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines, development environments, and tooling to help engineers ship changes faster and more safely.
- 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 involving scalability, cost, and security.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and flexible benefits package.
- Short-term incentive through the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
- Health, dental, and vision insurance for eligible regular employees working 20 or more hours per week.
- Health Savings Account and Healthcare Flexible Spending Account for eligible regular employees working 20 or more hours per week.
- Life insurance and long-term disability leave for eligible regular employees working 20 or more hours per week.
- Dependent daycare spending account and tuition assistance or reimbursement for eligible regular employees working 20 or more hours per week.
- Simple Steps global well-being program for eligible regular employees working 20 or more hours per week.
- Incentive plans, 401(k) plan with employer contribution and match, short-term disability, paid time off, and paid holidays for regular employees.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, and a Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement subject to IRS earning minimums for regular employees.
- Capital Accumulation Plan for Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
