London Hybrid Principal Platform Engineer (12-Month Contract)

Go Fractional; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic Digital Technologies is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer for a 12-month fixed-term contract in London, with a hybrid work arrangement requiring 2-3 days on-site per week. The role focuses on building and maintaining critical software engineering tools and IaC-driven infrastructure to improve efficiency, reliability, and observability.

You will collaborate with multiple software groups to design pragmatic, scalable solutions, guide DevOps practices, and mentor peers while

Qualifications

• 6+ years in platform engineering, DevOps or SRE.
• Experience with IaC tools (OpenTofu, EKS, Helm).
• Production-ready distributed systems experience; trade-offs on performance and reliability.
• Cloud proficiency (AWS), databases, APIs, modern DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Enhance and maintain Infrastructure as Code repository for cloud resources.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines; automate processes.
• Provide observability tools for self-discovery of issues.
• Identify productivity gaps and implement solutions.
• Provide technical mentorship inside and outside the team.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

Site reliability

IaC OpenTofu

AWS

Python

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

OpenTofu

EKS

Helm

Job description

Medtronic Digital Technologies is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer for a 12-month fixed-term contract in London, with a hybrid work arrangement requiring 2-3 days on-site per week. The role focuses on building and maintaining critical software engineering tools and IaC-driven infrastructure to improve efficiency, reliability, and observability.

You will collaborate with multiple software groups to design pragmatic, scalable solutions, guide DevOps practices, and mentor peers while