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Principal Platform Engineer - 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract

Medtronic, City of Westminster

Principal Platform Engineer - 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract

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Medtronic, City of Westminster

  • Full time
  • Temporary
  • Onsite working

Posted today, 30 Sep | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

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Location ref: City of Westminster

Full Job Description

  • Enhance and maintain our Infrastructure as Code repository to give all our engineers the best cloud resource support.
  • Contribute to our CI/CD pipelines to driver further efficiency of our engineers - automate everything where possible.
  • Provide observability tools to engineers so they can self-discover issues.
  • Find gaps in developer productivity and design, implement solutions to solve them.
  • Provide technical mentorship to others, inside and outside of the team.

    6+ years of platform engineering, DevOps, or site reliability engineering experience, working with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools - we use OpenTofu, EKS and Helm.
  • Track record of successfully navigating ambiguity, including making progress with incomplete information, breaking down complex problems, and adapting approach as requirements evolve.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in production, with solid understanding of architectural trade-offs involving performance, scalability, and reliability
  • Proficiency with cloud platforms (preferably AWS), databases, APIs, and modern DevOps practice.
  • Must be willing to commute to London 2-3 days per week, with flexibility around the exact arrangement., Experience with designing golden paths for internal software engineers - internal developer platforms, developer experience products.
  • Experience with Python - when we cannot leverage IaC our code is Python based.
  • Experience with deploying production GitOps platforms that manage deployments of multiple applications effectively.
  • Familiarity with Governance, Risk , and Compliance (GRC) engineering - platform engineering means we have a duty to address our security and compliance issues through automated means.
  • Experience with Agentic AI infrastructure - you have built an AI coding agent that goes beyond markdown files on an IDE.

    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 Medtronic Digital Technologies is creating ambitious new products that bring connectivity, real-time guidance, and decision support to the operating room. To support this mission, we are developing compact, high-performance, embedded systems that enable edge computing and connectivity. Working closely with other teams across Medtronic, we are creating a connected ecosystem and leveraging the state of the art in computer vision to provide the most comprehensive view of surgery. If you're interested in using cutting-edge technology to improve the standard of care in surgery on a global scale, this could be the place for you. This role is focused on developing and maintaining critical software engineering tools and architecture to drive engineering efficiency, reliability, and continuous improvement. The responsibilities will be diverse, ranging from maintaining AWS resources through Infrastructure as Code (we use OpenTofu) through to enhancing observability tools (we embrace OpenTelemetry) and supporting AI agentic workflows. You will be working with different software engineering groups to understand their problems and coming up with a pragmatic, maintainable solution to solve their problems., 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. We change lives . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That's who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives. We build extraordinary solutions as one team . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough. This life-changing career is yours to engineer . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…
  • Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world
  • Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities
  • Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning
    • These commitments set our team apart from the rest: Experiences that put people first . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need. Life-transforming technologies . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms. Better outcomes for our world . Here, it's about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls. Insight-driven care . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

    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: United Kingdom: 95,200.00 GBP - 142,800.00 GBP | This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP). We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.

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