Software Cloud Engineer I - Cloud Infrastructure

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A Day in the Life

The Cloud Engineer I supports PCS cloud infrastructure by helping build, maintain, and troubleshoot AWS environments, Windows and Linux systems, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and observability tools such as CloudWatch, ELK Stack, and Dynatrace. The role contributes to reliable, secure, scalable, and repeatable infrastructure delivery by assisting with Terraform, Ansible, scripting, monitoring, documentation, and minor system or process improvements under guidance from more experienced engineers.

Careers that Change Lives

Medtronic’s Cardiovascular (CV) group is looking for a motivated Cloud Engineer I to work in Patient Care Systems (PCS), supporting cloud infrastructure services for customer-facing and business-critical applications. This entry-level individual contributor role works with close supervision to support the health, observability, scalability, security, and maintainability of AWS infrastructure and related operational components. An ideal candidate has broad theoretical cloud and systems engineering knowledge, a strong interest in automation and infrastructure operations, and the ability to learn and apply practices 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 an entry-level cloud engineering contributor on a project or work team, working with close supervision and guidance from more experienced team members.
• Support cloud infrastructure tasks and related activities of limited scope, typically within smaller or less complex projects.
• Assist with building, maintaining, and improving AWS environments using services such as EC2, ELB, RDS, Security Groups, S3, CloudWatch, and related cloud-native capabilities.
• Support deployment platform and system infrastructure activities using Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar technologies.
• Assist with CI/CD pipeline maintenance, automation, and repeatable infrastructure delivery under guidance from senior engineers.

• Use monitoring and observability platforms such as CloudWatch, ELK Stack, and Dynatrace to gather information, support troubleshooting, and help identify issues that are not immediately evident but are typically not difficult or complex.
• Make minor changes to systems, scripts, processes, or documentation to help solve problems and improve team operations.
• Communicate primarily with internal contacts within the immediate team to gather, confirm, and convey facts, status, and technical information.
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• Broad theoretical knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts, including AWS, automation, operating systems, networking, storage, security, and observability.
• Foundational understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code, configuration automation, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudWatch, ELK Stack, or Dynatrace.
• Ability to identify, define, and address routine cloud infrastructure issues with guidance and make minor improvements to systems, processes, or documentation.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

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

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 0-2 years of experience in cloud engineering, site reliability engineering, infrastructure engineering, software engineering, or a related technical role.
• Foundational knowledge of AWS or other cloud technologies.
• Foundational knowledge of Windows, Linux systems and command-line tools.
• Basic experience supporting, deploying, or troubleshooting applications in containerised environments.
• Exposure to infrastructure automation or configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar technologies.
• Programming or scripting experience in Go, Python, Bash, or a similar language.

Nice to Have

• Interest in learning project and change management practices in a cloud infrastructure environment.
• A desire to automate repetitive tasks and learn repeatable infrastructure delivery practices.
• A developing mindset of repeatability, testability, observability, and reversibility in cloud engineering work

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: 44,240.00 EUR - 66,360.00 EUR | This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).