Platform Engineer II

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

At Medtronic Patient Care Systems (PCS), we power the digital heartbeat behind life-saving cardiac therapies. We build the connected ecosystem that enables clinicians to monitor, manage, and protect millions of patients living with implantable cardiac devices around the world.

From secure device connectivity and real-time data platforms to intelligent clinical tools and patient-facing experiences, PCS transforms complex cardiac data into clarity, helping physicians make faster decisions, improving outcomes, and giving patients greater confidence in their care.

Every line of code we write supports someone’s parent, spouse, child, or friend. Our work ensures that life-saving therapies are not only delivered safely and reliably, but continuously improved through innovation, insight, and global scale.

If you want to build technology that truly matters, where uptime means peace of mind and innovation means more birthdays, join us. Together, we are shaping the future of connected cardiac care and changing lives every single day

We support a hybrid work model based out of our Galway offices. Alongside a competitive base salary (outlined below), we provide a comprehensive benefits package including an annual performance bonus, pension contribution, family healthcare coverage, continuous professional development, and more.

Come for a job, stay for a career!

A Day in the Life of our Platform Engineering Team:

As a Platform Engineer II within the PCS organisation, you will help develop and operate the software ecosystem supporting Medtronic implantable cardiac devices. Working across the software development lifecycle, you will build robust, scalable cloud and platform capabilities that support application, network, mobile, connectivity, and embedded-device solutions.

You will collaborate with global, cross-functional teams to shape technical solutions, improve engineering practices, and deliver reliable experiences for clinicians and patients.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop, operate, and support shared engineering platforms and services.
• Build reusable automation, tools, documentation, and runbooks that improve developer productivity, operational efficiency, and platform reliability.
• Implement, test, deploy, and support defined platform capabilities with general supervision.
• Contribute to technical design discussions and apply sound practices across software development, cloud computing, security, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Troubleshoot technical issues, identify root causes, and recommend improvements to systems and engineering processes.
• Partner with software engineers, architects, security specialists, data professionals, and infrastructure teams to deliver project milestones and engineering enablement initiatives.
• Provide guidance and assistance to entry-level engineers when appropriate.

Key Skills & Experience

Must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline, with at least two years of relevant experience; or an advanced degree.
• Experience creating or maintaining repeatable infrastructure and configuration using Terraform, Helm, or comparable tools.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability-as-code practices using Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, or comparable tools.
• Strong ownership, initiative, and the ability to deliver effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• A collaborative communication style and commitment to improving patient outcomes through connected health technology.

Nice to have:

• Cloud platforms and infrastructure services.
• Software development using a modern programming or scripting language.
• Source control, automated testing, and continuous integration or delivery practices.
• Containerisation and modern application platforms.
• Data processing, event streaming, databases, or distributed systems.
• Security, quality, and compliance tooling integrated into engineering workflows.
• Developer productivity, self-service platforms, or engineering enablement solutions.

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.