Principal Platform Engineer - 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract

Medtronic plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

MIP incentive

Job summary

Medtronic Digital Technologies is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer for a 12-month fixed-term contract in London. You will lead the design and operation of scalable, reliable infrastructure, with a focus on IaC (OpenTofu), AWS and DevOps practices, and supporting AI-enabled workflows.

The role requires 6+ years in platform engineering or related fields, strong cloud experience (AWS), and the ability to work 2-3 days per week on-site in London with flexible arrangements.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of platform engineering, DevOps, or site reliability engineering experience with IaC tooling.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS), distributed systems, and reliability-centric design.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, break down complex problems, and adapt to evolving requirements.
• Willingness to commute to London 2–3 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Enhance and maintain our Infrastructure as Code repository for cloud resource support.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines to improve engineering efficiency.
• Provide observability tools to enable self-discovery of issues.
• Mentor teammates on best practices and architecture.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

IaC

AWS

EKS

Helm

Python

Tools

OpenTofu

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

Helm

Python

Job description

## Principal Platform Engineer - 12-Month Fixed-Term ContractPostuler: Mode de travail Flexible Work Arrangement: London, London, United Kingdom: Temps plein: Offre publiée hier: R77992Chez Medtronic, vous pouvez entamer une longue carrière d’exploration et d’innovation tout en aidant à soutenir l’accès aux soins de santé et l’équité pour tous. Vous dirigerez avec détermination en surmontant les obstacles à l’innovation dans un monde davantage connecté et compatissant.**Journée type** Medtronic Digital Technologies is creating ambitious new products that bring connectivity, real-time guidance, and decision support to the operating room. To support this mission, we are developing compact, high-performance, embedded systems that enable edge computing and connectivity. Working closely with other teams across Medtronic, we are creating a connected ecosystem and leveraging the state of the art in computer vision to provide the most comprehensive view of surgery. If you’re interested in using cutting-edge technology to improve the standard of care in surgery on a global scale, this could be the place for you. This role is focused on developing and maintaining critical software engineering tools and architecture to drive engineering efficiency, reliability, and continuous improvement. The responsibilities will be diverse, ranging from maintaining AWS resources through Infrastructure as Code (we use OpenTofu) through to enhancing observability tools (we embrace OpenTelemetry) and supporting AI agentic workflows. You will be working with different software engineering groups to understand their problems and coming up with a pragmatic, maintainable solution to solve their problems. **Primary Responsibilities:** * Enhance and maintain our Infrastructure as Code repository to give all our engineers the best cloud resource support.* Contribute to our CI/CD pipelines to driver further efficiency of our engineers – automate everything where possible.* Provide observability tools to engineers so they can self-discover issues.* Find gaps in developer productivity and design, implement solutions to solve them.* Provide technical mentorship to others, inside and outside of the team.**Required Qualifications:** * 6+ years of platform engineering, DevOps, or site reliability engineering experience, working with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools – we use OpenTofu, EKS and Helm.* Track record of successfully navigating ambiguity, including making progress with incomplete information, breaking down complex problems, and adapting approach as requirements evolve.* Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in production, with solid understanding of architectural trade-offs involving performance, scalability, and reliability* Proficiency with cloud platforms (preferably AWS), databases, APIs, and modern DevOps practice.* Must be willing to commute to London 2–3 days per week, with flexibility around the exact arrangement. **Preferred Qualifications:** * Experience with designing golden paths for internal software engineers - internal developer platforms, developer experience products.* Experience with Python - when we cannot leverage IaC our code is Python based.* Experience with deploying production GitOps platforms that manage deployments of multiple applications effectively.* Familiarity with Governance, Risk , and Compliance (GRC) engineering – platform engineering means we have a duty to address our security and compliance issues through automated means.* Experience with Agentic AI infrastructure – you have built an AI coding agent that goes beyond markdown files on an IDE.Exigences physiques du posteLes déclarations ci-dessus visent à décrire la nature générale et le niveau du travail effectué par les employés affectés à ce poste, mais elles ne constituent pas une liste exhaustive de toutes les responsabilités et compétences requises pour ce poste.**Alerte de fraude au recrutement** Nous avons pris connaissance de l’existence d’arnaques de type phishing visant les personnes à la recherche d’un emploi. Veuillez garder les points suivants à l’esprit : Postulez uniquement via les canaux officiels de Medtronic. Toutes les communications légitimes de recrutement de Medtronic proviennent de plateformes Medtronic approuvées et d’adresses e-mail officielles se terminant par @medtronic.com. Medtronic ne demande jamais de paiement ni d’informations personnelles sensibles (telles que des coordonnées bancaires ou des informations de sécurité sociale) au cours des premières étapes du processus de recrutement. Toute demande de ce type n’est pas légitime. Si vous recevez un message suspect prétendant provenir de Medtronic, n’y répondez pas, ne cliquez sur aucun lien et n’ouvrez aucune pièce jointe. Si vous avez des questions ou des préoccupations concernant l’authenticité d’une communication prétendument faite par ou au nom de Medtronic, veuillez nous contacter immédiatement à l’adresse [e-mail].**Avantages sociaux et rémunération****Medtronic offre un salaire compétitif et un ensemble d’avantages sociaux flexibles** Le cœur de nos valeurs est animé par un engagement envers nos employés. Nous saluons leurs contributions et partageons avec eux le succès qu’ils ont contribué à créer. Nous offrons un large éventail d’avantages, de ressources et de régimes de rémunération concurrentiels conçus pour vous soutenir à chaque étape de votre carrière et de votre vie personnelle.Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: United Kingdom: 95,200.00 GBP - 142,800.00 GBP |This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).