Senior Cloud Engineer - Kubernetes Platform

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

Senior Cloud Engineer responsible for building, operating, and improving Kubernetes-based cloud platforms that support critical healthcare software solutions. This role focuses on reliability, observability, automation, and developer experience across AWS-based production environments.

Careers that Change Lives

We are looking for a talented Senior Cloud Engineer to join our Cardiac Rhythm Software division. In this role, you will be responsible for the health, observability, and maintainability of our production environment, along with the supporting components that enable our day-to-day operations. The ideal candidate will bring strong experience in cloud-native technologies, systems administration, networking, storage, and software development.

A Day in the Life

• Ensure the environments are available and operating effectively by monitoring availability and performance through a holistic view of system health.
• Contribute to improving platform stability and enhancing the developer experience.
• Write, test, and review code.
• Work closely with the Product Owner and Scrum Master to support sprint planning, participate in scrum ceremonies, and deliver high-quality outcomes in each sprint.

Must have

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 5+ years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering or a similar role.
• 3+ years of experience working with AWS cloud technologies.
• 3+ years of experience working with Linux.
• Experience with Kubernetes Operators, including creating custom operators.
• Experience operating production workloads on Kubernetes, including deployment, troubleshooting, and upgrade management.
• Strong experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Programming experience in Go (Golang), including test-driven development practices.

Nice to Have:

• Experience deploying and operating Kubernetes clusters, ideally in a non-managed or self-managed cloud environment.
• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes RBAC, Helm, Flux, Istio, and/or Terratest.
• Experience with GitHub Actions.
• Experience with GitOps deployment practices, ideally using Flux.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes Cluster API, Bottlerocket OS, and building custom AWS AMIs.

About Medtronic

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies, and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. That is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations, but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.

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Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

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Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: Ireland: 65,600.00 EUR - 98,400.00 EUR |

The final salary within this range will be determined based on objective, job-related criteria, including relevant experience, skills and qualifications, in accordance with our compensation framework.

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This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).