Senior Enterprise Software Engineer

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The Cardiovascular Group brings all of our cardiac and vascular businesses together into one cross-functional, collaborative operating unit to employ the full breadth of our talent, technologies, products, services, and solutions to address the needs of customers and patients across the globe. Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) offers devices and therapies to treat abnormal heart rhythms, as well as cardiac diagnostic and monitoring solutions.

As the SW Developer Experience Architect, you will design, build, and maintain solutions that help deliver a reliable, scalable, and efficient platform foundation that supports the deployment, management, and monitoring of our applications and services. You will use cloud technology to automate many components of the software development and deployment lifecycle. This enterprise software supports clinicians across 90+ geographies for in clinic implant, follow-up and remote monitoring.

You will be responsible for defining the vision and driving the realization for robust software in the context of DevOps based software delivery. You will provide leadership and architectural direction to engineering teams to ensure speed, quality, and compliance. You will continuously drive software improvements by leveraging state-of-the-art methodologies, standards and tools, acting as a conduit of progressive external and internal thinking. Your perspective will be broad, incorporating system level design thinking and arriving at solution approach for complex technical problems across software development life cycle.

A Day in the Life

Collaborate with the architecture team to design the organization‘s platform infrastructure, considering scalability, performance, security, and automation.
Develop and maintain automation scripts, infrastructure-as-code solutions, and configuration. management tools to streamline the provisioning and management of infrastructure resources.
Drive the implementation of containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes to enable efficient deployment and scaling of applications.
Develop policies, standards, guidelines, governance, and related guidance for both CI/CD operations and for work of developers.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to DevOps teams, fostering a culture of innovation, learning, and collaboration.
Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their requirements and translate them into robust and scalable platform solutions.
Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and trends to identify opportunities for improving the platform‘s architecture and processes.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and application-related issues.
Lead capacity planning efforts to ensure the platform can accommodate growth and changing demands.
Develop and maintain comprehensive technical documentation for architecture, deployment procedures, and troubleshooting guides.
Contribute to the organization‘s technical strategy by providing insights and recommendations on infrastructure improvements and innovations Delivery:
Engages with the persistent teams through Agile/Scrum ceremonies including PI and Scrum planning, stand ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives as appropriate.
Engages with the larger architecture team to ensure alignment across the Patient Management ecosystem of hardware and software.
Works with the Product Owners to define aspects of user story acceptance criteria and the prioritization of the Architecture Runway.
Balances security with cost and capability assessments to support experiences designed.
Works with the persistent teams to adapt the design based on early sprints and other learnings.
Guides the teams in leveraging established standards, patterns, and practices for delivery.
Responsibilities may also include the following.
Designs, develops, documents, tests, maintains, and debugs applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions.
Conducts multidisciplinary research and collaborates with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product and commercial software.
Ensures software standards are met.
Work with other architects within the team to ensure the Device Manager applications and services provide scalable and resilient services that are productive and efficient to use.
Deliver software telemetry and self-service documentation for your work and champion it’s practices.
Put together POC’s to evaluate new services and capabilities; participate in development and review of code that creates and runs our Device Managers.

Qualification :
B-Tech/BE in Computer Science/Electronics or equivalent with 17+ years of experience in Software Industry.
ME/M-Tech in Computer Science/Electronics or equivalent with 15+ years of experience in Software Industry.

Skills & Experience:
15+ years of experience operating a large, distributed, production software stack
15+ years of experience with Linux systems administration (preferably RH/EPEL derivatives)
8+ years of hands-on experience with Docker, building Docker files and images, establishing Docker image repositories.
8+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes and creating and managing a Kubernetes based infrastructure
8+ years of experience in a public or private cloud environment
Proven experience delivering software using .Net, C, Java, Python, Golang, or similar languages
Strong understanding of computer networking and security fundamentals and tools and techniques typically encountered in troubleshooting distributed systems
Experience with CI/CD/CT pipelines and source code control
with Kubernetes package management solutions such as Helm
working in an Agile team setting
working with a secure software development lifecycle
building, managing, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines & pipeline templates
in leveraging automated testing tools to automate testing.

Nice to Have:
Experience managing cloud scalability or a mission critical environment
Experience operating and securing Internet/public facing production service
Experience in deploying/managing software to on-premises, co-located, cloud, and hybrid cloud
Experience with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation
Experience with Kustomize and Flux
Experience with Octopus, Ansible
Experience with Service Meshes (e.g., Istio)
Experience with monitoring stacks (ELK, AppD, Datadog, Prometheus)
DevSecOps Engineer Certification, AWS Devops Engineering professional, AWS Certified Security specialist, or similar.
CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator or CKAD - Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
Excellent attitude and aptitude with demonstrated strategic mindset that can drive change
Experience with version control systems with Git such as BitBucket, or Azure DevOps

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. 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.