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 R&D. 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 ensure that the platform remains secure, reliable, and compliant with healthcare requirements, including comprehensive audit trails. The role is split roughly evenly between reliability work and infrastructure/developer experience. The engineer will serve as a US-based point of contact for the platform, investigate issues, improve monitoring, alerting, and dashboards, and address recurring problems with lasting fixes. They will evolve Terraform-based AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, environments, and tooling used by engineers, helping make software delivery faster and safer as development increasingly involves AI agents. The engineer will work with backend, frontend, and DevOps engineers across 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 can be based in Newton, Massachusetts, or Mounds View, Minnesota, and requires at least four days onsite each week.
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.
- 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, such as 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.
- For roles below Principal level, candidates must have unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.
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
- Build, operate, and improve the AWS cloud infrastructure supporting the Affera Digital Platform.
- Serve as a US-based point of contact for platform reliability and investigate issues as they arise.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, and dashboards, and turn recurring problems into lasting fixes.
- Evolve Terraform-based AWS infrastructure, including environments and multi-region deployments.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines and the tooling and developer environments used by engineers.
- Help make software delivery faster and safer as development increasingly involves AI agents.
- Partner with security and cloud teams on security reviews and compliance.
- Work with backend, frontend, and DevOps engineers across the US and Europe.
- Contribute to architecture decisions involving scalability, cost, and security.
- Help ensure the platform is secure, reliable, and compliant with healthcare requirements, including comprehensive audit trails.
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 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
