Cloud Engineer I - Kubernetes Platform

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Careers that Change Lives

We are looking for a motivated Cloud Engineer I to join our Cardiac Rhythm Software division. In this role, you will support the health, observability, and maintainability of our cloud-based production environment, along with the supporting components that enable our day-to-day operations. The ideal candidate will bring foundational experience with cloud-native technologies, Linux, automation, and software development, along with a strong willingness to learn and grow in a collaborative engineering environment.

A Day in the Life

• Assist with monitoring environment availability and performance to help maintain system health.
• Support improvements to platform stability and the developer experience under the guidance of more senior engineers.
• Write, test, and review code with support from the team.
• Participate in sprint planning, scrum ceremonies, and team delivery activities while building knowledge of the platform and operational practices.

Must have Minimum Qualifications

• 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 Linux systems and command-line tools.
• Foundational understanding of Kubernetes concepts, such as pods, deployments, services, and namespaces.
• 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:

• Exposure to deploying or operating Kubernetes clusters in cloud environments.
• Exposure to Terraform, Kubernetes RBAC, Helm, Flux, Istio, and/or related cloud-native technologies.
• Exposure to CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions.
• Exposure to GitOps deployment practices.
• Interest in learning Kubernetes Cluster API, Bottlerocket OS, and custom AWS AMI build practices.

About Medtronic

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. That 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 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.

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).

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here