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 LifeThe Senior Devops Engineer is accountable for streamlining and standardizing DevOps practices using the right framework, tools and techniques to improve efficiencies in development, delivery, deployment and operation workflows.Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- The Senior Software/devops Engineer will be a member of the Engineering R&D team. The Senior Software Engineer will closely work with the Engineering team to provide technical solutions to build end to end automation frameworks and CI/CD pipeline to reach a very high level of productivity.
- The Senior Software/devops Engineer should be conversant with the current technologies and provide thought leadership in automation and DevOps.
- The ideal candidate is a hybrid organizational and technology leader as well as a critical thinker who operates across disciplines - product design, software architecture and usability, software engineering process, operational performance and customer support.
- Strong technical leadership skills are a must, as are excellent verbal and written communication abilities
- The individual must ensure the set up and functioning of the continuous build environment to achieve continuous development, continuous testing, continuous integration, continuous deployment and continuous monitoring.
- The candidate must be able to work with large scale enterprise systems including desktop, web and mobile platforms that integrate with other in-house and/or 3rd party software and medical devices.
- The Candidate must work closely with the GBU DevOps architect, R&D Senior Software Engineer or Chief Architect to determine feasibility of implementation within time and cost constraints.
Required Knowledge and Experience:
- Experience in Non-Product Tool Validation as per the FDA (Medical) standards.
- Experience with healthcare regulatory standards such as FDA and ISO standards like IEC 62304.
- Experience in building platforms or software applications in the cloud environment.
- Experience implementing Cloud and/or Hybrid-Cloud solutions a plus.
- Minimum of 10 years of total product development experience with 5 to 8 years in Automation and DevOps.
- Masters or bachelor’s in engineering or Technology in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronics, Electricals or related field.
- Industry recognized certifications such as SAFe®4 DevOps Practitioner Certification and Microsoft Certified Azure DevOps Engineer.
- Solid Experience in Azure DevOps Administration, Azure DevOps Services REST API, Azure DevOps Pipelines.
- Solid Experience in Database Management (MS SQL) .
- Solid Experience in Git (Advanced usage: branching strategies, optimization, repo management) .
- Strong knowledge of Agile Methodology.
- Solid Experience in design, implementation, use, enablement of the Automation strategy.
- Solid experience in automating development, delivery and deployment workflows.
- Solid Experience in Python programming.
- Experience in designing, developing, enhancing and maintaining enterprise level automation frameworks .
- Experience with creating Continuous Integrations server tasks/jobs (e.g., Jenkins, TeamCity)
- Orchestration tool experience (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
- Experience using automation tools such as Ranorex, LabView etc.,
- Experience in building a continuous integration and continuous delivery environments.
- Experience in building real-time reports and dashboards for the automation.
- Experience working with VM’s and Cloud infrastructure.
- Experience working in Windows command line environments (Command Prompt and/or PowerShell)
- Integration experience across tools such as Polarion, Codebeamer, Jenkins, SonarQube
- Experience using Postman for API testing
- Experience with Matlab/Simulink build pipeline or configuration models
- Experience in installing and setting up desktops and servers
- Experience in extreme programming practices such as Behavior Driven Development.
- Experience in performance testing tools such as JMeter.
- Experience in performance monitoring tools such as New Relic.
- Experience working in a global cross-culture team environment.
- Knowledge of the architecture trends and the emerging technologies
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 95,000+ 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


