Senior AI/Data Platform Engineer - Flexible London

Medtronic plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 77,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic in London seeks a Senior Platform Engineer for its AI and Data Science Platform team to design, build and maintain cloud and on‑prem infrastructure used by ML engineers, data scientists and product developers.

You will work with Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform/OpenTofu, Docker and Helm to improve reliability, speed and developer experience, with a commute to London 2 days per week.

Join a mission-driven group shaping healthcare at scale.

Qualifications

• Strong practical Kubernetes experience including Pods, RS, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Services, PVs/PVCs and Helm deployments.
• GitOps with declarative, version-controlled delivery, PR workflows and approval gates.
• Cloud infrastructure experience with AWS preferred.
• Understanding of IAM, networking, compute, storage and observability.
• Hands-on Terraform and/or OpenTofu experience to build maintainable changes.
• Hands-on Docker experience for building and maintaining images.
• Experience operating production systems, incident diagnosis and safe change management.
• Ability to define practical solutions and deliver with limited supervision.
• Proven collaboration and strong communication within cross-functional teams.
• Willingness to commute to London 2 days per week.
• Exposure to or knowledge of Machine Learning is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain cloud (AWS) and on‑prem infrastructure used by ML engineers, data scientists and product development teams.
• Support ML engineers by responding to platform service requests, troubleshooting issues, and improving the reliability and usability of the MLOps platform.
• Build productive relationships across engineering teams to align stakeholders and move shared technical work forward.
• Explain technical ideas, risks, and trade-offs clearly in pull requests, design documents, incident reviews, and meetings.

Skills

Kubernetes

GitOps

AWS

IAM

Networking

Observability

Terraform

OpenTofu

Docker

Incident management

Production systems

Team collaboration

Machine Learning

Tools

Helm

Terraform

OpenTofu

Docker

Job description

Medtronic in London seeks a Senior Platform Engineer for its AI and Data Science Platform team to design, build and maintain cloud and on‑prem infrastructure used by ML engineers, data scientists and product developers.

You will work with Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform/OpenTofu, Docker and Helm to improve reliability, speed and developer experience, with a commute to London 2 days per week.

Join a mission-driven group shaping healthcare at scale.