Senior Cloud Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

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

The Senior Cloud Engineer designs, builds, maintains, and improves AWS cloud infrastructure for Patient Care Systems (PCS), including EC2, ELB, RDS, Security Groups, S3, CloudWatch, Windows, Red Hat Linux, networking, storage, and cloud-native services that support customer-facing and business-critical applications. This role uses Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, automation, monitoring, and observability tools such as ELK Stack and Dynatrace to improve reliability, scalability, security, maintainability, incident response, and repeatable infrastructure delivery.

Careers that Change Lives

Medtronic’s Cardiovascular (CV) group is looking for a motivated Senior Cloud Engineer to work in Patient Care Systems (PCS), supporting cloud infrastructure services for customer-facing and business-critical applications. You will be responsible for the health, observability, scalability, security, and maintainability of production AWS infrastructure and the auxiliary components that support day-to-day operations. An ideal candidate is a seasoned individual contributor with advanced cloud engineering depth, strong infrastructure automation experience, and the ability to independently determine and develop approaches to complex technical solutions across EC2, Windows, Red Hat Linux, Terraform, cloud-native services, systems administration, networking, storage, and automation.

A Day in the Life

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

• Serve as a seasoned cloud engineering contributor who works independently under limited supervision to determine and develop approaches for complex infrastructure solutions.
• Own or significantly contribute to cloud infrastructure projects, processes, and operational improvements within the Skynet job area.
• Design, build, maintain, and improve AWS environments using services such as EC2, ELB, RDS, Security Groups, S3, CloudWatch, and related cloud-native capabilities.
• Maintain and upgrade deployment platforms and system infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code practices with Terraform, Ansible, and repeatable automation patterns.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support reliable, secure, and observable delivery of infrastructure and services.
• Use monitoring and observability platforms such as CloudWatch, ELK Stack, and Dynatrace to troubleshoot issues, improve reliability, and provide in-depth analysis with recommendations for process or system improvements.
• Communicate facts, status, ideas, risks, and issues to internal customers, senior stakeholders, vendors, and partner teams to influence decisions and reach agreement on assignments.
• Coach, review, and provide technical guidance or training to lower-level specialists and team members within the cloud engineering job area.
• May manage cloud engineering projects or processes, including delegation of work, review of others’ work products, and coordination across multiple technical specialties.
• Advanced knowledge of cloud infrastructure engineering, combining breadth and depth across AWS, automation, operating systems, networking, storage, security, and observability.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration automation using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tooling.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze difficult issues involving multiple systems or technical specialties and recommend improvements to processes, systems, or cloud products.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE, PLEASE BE SURE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ARE EVIDENT ON YOUR RESUME

• Requires a Baccalaureate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Management Information Systems or another technology or engineering discipline with a strong focus in cloud infrastructure delivery.
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant cloud engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, or systems engineering experience with a Baccalaureate degree

Nice to Have

• Practical knowledge of project management, including planning, coordination, delegation, and review of technical work products.
• Strong hands-on experience designing and managing AWS environments (EC2, RDS, S3, networking, and security).
• ProvenexpertiseinInfrastructure-as-Code usingTerraform/Ansible with a focus on automation and scalability.
• Solid experience building andmaintainingCI/CD pipelines for secure and reliable deployments.
• Proficiencyin monitoring and troubleshooting using tools likeCloudWatch, ELK, Dynatrace, or equivalent monitoring tools to drive system reliability improvements.
• A desire to automate everything. Automation should be a core focus of yourmindset,and the elimination of repetitive tasks should be a constant desire in the role.
• A mindset of repeatability, testability, observability, and reversibility in all you do.
• Proactive approach to Incident and Change Management with the ability to build relationships and consensus across teams.

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