Senior Software Cloud Engineer - DevOps

About the role

The person in this role will work from the Medtronic facility located in Mounds View, Minnesota. As a Senior Software DevOps Engineer, you will be a hands-on individual contributor responsible for designing, building, and operating secure, scalable public cloud platform services that enable enterprise-wide global software delivery.

Responsibilities

• Supports development and execution of the organization's cloud strategy from a technical perspective, including design, planning, integration, maintenance, and support of cloud architecture.
• Works with stakeholders across the organization to evaluate cloud systems and identify appropriate solutions.
• Responsible for complete end-to-end project management for the assigned project(s) which includes project planning, delivery, client interaction, trouble shooting and implementation support.
• Drives the application of principles, theories and concepts based on the Cloud Stack and determines the best course of action.
• Affords opportunities for application and process improvement and prepares documentation to share with team members and other affected parties.
• Requires sound technical knowledge combined with reasonable understanding of business issues.
• Design, develop, and maintain cloud platform services, infrastructure-as-code, and automation frameworks for enterprise-scale public cloud environments.
• Build and maintain reusable software components, CI/CD pipelines, and code libraries enabling secure and consistent deployments.
• Implement secure-by-design guardrails including identity and access management, encryption, logging, observability, resiliency, and compliance.
• Evaluate and integrate new cloud services, translating business and security requirements into scalable software solutions.
• Develop and maintain operational tooling, monitoring, runbooks, and AI-enabled operations to support global reliability.
• Act as an escalation point for complex cloud incidents, outages, and security events.
• Collaborate across application, security, and infrastructure teams to modernize platforms and improve delivery efficiency.
• Provide technical leadership through communities of practice, technical forums, and mentorship.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• 4+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 2+ years of experience with an advanced degree

Nice to Have (Preferred Qualifications)

• Strong software engineering background with experience in JSON, Python, and API-driven development.
• Hands-on experience with AWS public cloud platforms and services.
• Expertise in infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps models.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, container platforms, and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, compliance, and enterprise governance.
• Proven ability to build scalable, reusable platform services across multiple regions and business units.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence in a matrixed organization.