Sr DevSecOps Engineer
About The Position
At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world. A Day in the Life The Sr DevSecOps Engineer defines, implements, and governs secure embedded software platform practices for regulated medical device programs. This role provides technical leadership across CI/CD automation, embedded Linux security, software supply chain controls, vulnerability management, cybersecurity risk analysis, and release evidence generation to support safe, secure, and compliant medical device development. The Sr DevSecOps Engineer will join the Embedded OS Platforms Team to lead secure embedded platform enablement for new and existing medical device development programs. The Embedded OS Platforms Team delivers the core software infrastructure and foundational system components that enable operation of the application software. This role is responsible for advancing reusable DevSecOps frameworks, secure software supply chain practices, embedded Linux security capabilities, and cybersecurity lifecycle processes across multiple products. The successful candidate will serve as a technical lead who partners with software, systems, product security, quality, regulatory, and program teams to deliver secure, maintainable, and compliant platform solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience OR PhD with 0 years relevant experience.
- Requires a Baccalaureate degree and a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience. For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.
Nice To Haves
- Strong experience in embedded Linux platform development for regulated, safety-critical, or high-reliability products.
- Hands-on experience with AMD/Xilinx SoC-based embedded systems, including AMD Zynq 7000 series, Zynq UltraScale+, Kria SOM, and the NVIDIA ORIN platform.
- Experience with real-time operating systems such as SafeRTOS and QNX Neutrino.
- Experience with Yocto, BSPs, OS layers, kernel configuration, boot flows, device drivers, and embedded platform security.
- Experience developing or governing DevSecOps practices in regulated medical device, safety-critical, aerospace, automotive, or industrial control environments.
- Strong understanding of FDA cybersecurity expectations, IEC 62304, ISO 14971, ISO 13485, SOUP/OTS software management, SBOM practices, and software lifecycle evidence generation.
- Experience implementing security automation in CI/CD pipelines, including SAST, SCA, container scanning, artifact signing, build reproducibility, traceability, and vulnerability reporting.
- Strong experience with threat modeling, vulnerability assessment, cybersecurity risk analysis, and secure-by-design architecture reviews.
- Experience with CVE triage methods that include exploitability, asset exposure, configuration applicability, runtime reachability, known exploited vulnerabilities, and remediation validation.
- Ability to collaborate across hardware, software, systems, product security, quality, regulatory, program management, and product management stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional engineering and leadership decisions without direct authority.
- Experience defining reusable platform practices across multiple products, programs, hardware variants, or software release branches.
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, and root-cause analysis skills.
- Strong technical communication skills with the ability to translate cybersecurity and DevSecOps risks into actionable engineering and leadership decisions.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the DevSecOps architecture and roadmap for embedded capital equipment platforms, including CI/CD pipelines, build infrastructure, security automation, release evidence, and long-term maintainability.
- Develop and maintain secure embedded platform software, build infrastructure, and reusable automation capabilities.
- Create and support Yocto-based embedded Linux distributions, BSP software, device drivers, hypervisors, and platform-level OS components.
- Establish secure software supply chain practices, including SBOM generation, SOUP/OTS component tracking, license awareness, vulnerability monitoring, end-of-support tracking, and remediation workflows.
- Develop reusable CI/CD templates and pipeline controls for static analysis, software composition analysis, unit test automation, artifact signing, provenance tracking, cybersecurity evidence capture, and release readiness.
- Lead threat modeling and cybersecurity risk analysis for embedded platform components, including asset identification, attack surface analysis, exploitability assessment, security controls, and traceability to risk mitigations.
- Drive CVE intake, enrichment, asset mapping, triage, risk scoring, remediation planning, validation, and reporting in partnership with Product Security, SWQA, Systems, and program teams.
- Design and implement secure boot, firmware signing, cryptographic configuration, key/certificate lifecycle support, authenticated update mechanisms, and secure device communication patterns.
- Define runtime security monitoring requirements and support post-market cybersecurity monitoring and vulnerability response workflows.
- Review reported anomalies, assess cybersecurity impact, and support incident-response activities as needed.
- Support regulatory submissions and audits by ensuring cybersecurity, software lifecycle, and DevSecOps evidence is complete, traceable, reproducible, and aligned with internal quality system expectations.
- Define platform-level OS and BSP maintenance strategies, including Linux kernel support, Yocto release planning, driver update strategy, patchability, and security update governance across the product lifecycle.
- Collaborate with external vendors and internal partners to evaluate security tooling, embedded Linux support models, vulnerability intelligence, penetration testing outputs, and long-term maintenance approaches.
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to software engineers, DevOps engineers, and platform teams on secure coding, build automation, vulnerability handling, and regulated software development practices.
- Partner with product teams to define platform capabilities that are reusable, secure, testable, and scalable across multiple capital equipment programs.
Benefits
- Health, Dental and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability leave
- Dependent daycare spending account
- Tuition assistance/reimbursement
- Simple Steps (global well-being program)
- Incentive plans
- 401(k) plan plus 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
Senior
