Senior DevOps Engineer

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 LifeMedtronic - Digital Technologies is creating ambitious new products that bring connectivity, real-time guidance, and decision support to the operating room. To support this mission, we are developing compact, high-performance, embedded systems that enable edge computing and connectivity. Working closely with other teams across Medtronic, we are creating a connected ecosystem and leveraging the state of the art in computer vision to provide the most comprehensive view of surgery. If you’re interested in using cutting-edge technology to improve the standard of care in surgery on a global scale, this could be the place for you.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for our medical device development process. You will collaborate with developers, testers, and other stakeholders to ensure the reliability, security, and performance of our systems. Join our dynamic team, based in the vibrant hub of Old Street, London. This role requires you to be in the office at least two days per week.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Design, develop and maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to ensure an efficient and reliable development environment 
• Optimize compilation process of Docker images to decrease time to feedback 
• Facilitate the automated deployment of software to test devices to enable automated integration testing 
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance and availability of our cloud systems and physical devices. 
• Plan, execute, and oversee the deployment of updates to critical devices, ensuring smooth rollouts even in environments with intermittent connectivity 
• Liaise with stakeholders in tech support, manufacturing, product, development 
• Research and evaluate new technologies and tools in the DevOps domain
• Support, streamline and challenge established and implement new Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) workflows 

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• At least 5 years of experience as a DevOps engineer or an equivalent role 
• Experience working with physical devices
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc. 
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker, etc. 
• Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, etc. 
• Experience with cloud platforms and services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, etc. 
• Excellent scripting skills with Python, etc. 
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills 
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills 

Experience in the medical device industry or other highly regulated fields such as automotive or aerospace is a plus. Additionally, familiarity with the deployment of AI models, including ML Ops, is desirable.

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. 

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.
 

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

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here