Senior Principal IT Architect - Cloud
We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.
Our unwavering commitment to inclusion, diversity, and equity (ID&E) means zero barriers to opportunity within Medtronic and a culture where all employees belong, are respected, and feel valued for who they are and the life experiences they contribute.
We know equity starts beyond our workplace, and we must play a role in addressing systemic inequities in our communications if we hope to have long-term sustainable impact.
Anchored in our Mission, we continue to drive ID&E forward both to enhance the well-being of Medtronic employees and to accelerate innovation that brings our lifesaving technologies to more people in more places around the world.
Bring your talents to an industry leader in medical technology and healthcare solutions – we’re a market leader and growing every day. You can be proud to be a part of technologies that are rooted in our long history of mission-driven innovation. You will be empowered to shape your own career. We encourage and support your growth with the training, mentorship, and guidance you need to own your future success. Together, we can transform healthcare.
Join us for a career in IT that changes lives. Medtronic is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture. Check out the accomplishments of our Women in IT group! http://bit.ly/MedtronicWomeninIT
A Day in the Life
- Partner with Medtronic’s Global Security Office and Global Application Services team to establish architectural patterns for Cloud architecture and new platform capabilities such as AI/ML, Kubernetes, IaaS, and SaaS.
- Cross-functional team of Architects who are responsible for partnering with R&D and Innovation teams to create global systems that improve healthcare for millions of people.
- Refine and improve governance through automation, build patterns and practices, and collaboration to ensure designs are effective, efficient, and meet rigorous security and operations standards.
- Collaborate with development teams and internal stakeholders to capture requirements, specify operational characteristics, and meet compliance measures.
- Provide subject matter expertise and guidance to identify the tools and methods to achieve desired outcomes.
- Develop and use automation frameworks such as CloudFormation, Bicep, or Terraform to deploy infrastructure as code to private and/or public clouds.
- Utilize test driven development practices to develop secure, scalable, highly available, and self-healing cloud infrastructure environments that leverage cloud native services
- Design DevOps CI/CD pipeline integrations to maintain consistent environments across critical applications
- Troubleshoot network and performance issues in large scale distributed systems
- Drive change through new technology adoption and re-engineering where necessary to support continuous improvement
- Provide technical demos to and lead deep-dive discussions with stakeholders
- Facilitate collaboration, sharing, trust and cross-pollination of skills with Product Owners, designers, and DevOps teams
- Navigate the technical and the business aspects of design with consultative and cloud practitioner skills
- Bachelor’s degree and 17+ years of experience.
- Hands-on experience in deploying and operating infrastructure components in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or Azure Cloud.
- Hands-on experience in architecting and building Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS and Azure
- Hands-on experience developing and maintaining CI/CD automation processes & pipelines
- AWS/Azure Certifications
- Previous Medtronic experience
- Hands-on experience with ‘Big Data’ technologies like Kafka, Elastic, hBase/Hadoop, Ambari
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) languages like Terraform or Ansible
- Hands-on experience developing dashboards/alerting via CSP native and ELK tools
- Programming expertise - can write scripts from scratch in Python, bash, or similar language
- Experience managing cloud scalability or a mission critical environment
- Experience in deploying/managing software to on-premises, co-located, cloud, and hybrid cloud.
- Experience with version control systems with Git such as BitBucket, or Azure DevOps
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, DataDog, etc.
- Working knowledge of security technologies in a large, distributed, containerized environment; RBAC, SAML, Kerberos, Ranger policies
- Well-developed social skills to build alliances around DevOps goals and accelerate processes.
Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.
We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.
Physical Job Requirements
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)
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