Senior IT Technologist - LLM Platform Engineer
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, we push the limits of what technology can do to make tomorrow better than yesterday and that makes it an exciting and rewarding place to work. We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
Develops, documents, and configures systems specifications that confirm to defined architecture standards, address business requirements, and processes.
Involved in planning of system and development deployment as well as responsible for meeting hardware and software compliance and security standards.
Evaluates interface between hardware and software, operational requirements and characteristics of overall system.
Establishes and documents system design, parameters and formats, ensures hardware and software systems functionality, performance and compatibility, and coordinates and/or modifies system parameters in terms of configurations, such as existing and projected computer capacity and capabilities.
Actively identifies system functionality or performance deficiencies, executes changes to existing systems, and tests functionality of the system to correct deficiencies and maintain more effective data handling, data integrity, conversion, input/output requirements, and storage.
May document testing and maintenance of system updates, modifications, and configurations.
May act as a liaison with key technology vendor technologists or other business functions.
Function Specific: Strategically design technology solutions that meets the needs and goals of the company and its customers/users.
Leverages platform process expertise to assess if existing standard platform functionality will solve a business problem or customization solution would be required.
Gather and prioritize integration requirements.
Test the quality of a product and its ability to perform a task or solve a problems.
Perform basic maintenance and performance optimization procedures in each of the primary operating systems.
Technology: Using computational thinking to define technological solutions to real life problems.
Design technology that allows for the optimal user experience and broad accessibility.
Ability to document detailed technical system specifications based on business system requirements.
Required Knowledge and Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline with overall 7+ years.
Minimum of 6-8 years of experience as a Platform Engineer, AIOps Engineer, AI/ML Operations Engineer, or Automation Engineer supporting enterprise platforms.
Strong 3+ years of experience with LLM platforms, embeddings, vector & graph databases, prompt management, and ingestion pipelines in production environments.
Minimum of 2-3 years of experience with Git based repositories and CI/CD platforms, preferably GitLab or GitHub, for controlled deployments and versioning.
Solid understanding of Linux (RHEL), automation scripting, platform security, monitoring, and enterprise governance practices.
Knowledge of Identity and Access Management (IAM) and secrets management solutions such as CyberArk, HashiCorp Vault, or enterprise Secrets Managers.
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.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).