Senior AI/ML Platform Engineer — Cloud & Kubernetes

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medtronic Incentive Plan

Job summary

Medtronic plc is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for the AI and Data Science Platform team in the UK. You will design, build, and maintain cloud and on-prem infrastructure used by software, ML engineers and data scientists to develop new products.

You will work to enable rapid, scalable delivery, with a focus on reliability, security and developer experience. This role requires commuting to London 2 days per week and a hybrid work arrangement.

Qualifications

• Strong practical Kubernetes experience including Pods, StatefulSets, DaemonSets and Helm.
• GitOps mindset with declarative, version-controlled delivery and PR workflows.
• Cloud infrastructure experience with AWS preferred and knowledge of IAM, networking, compute and observability.
• Hands-on Docker experience and ability to build secure, maintainable images.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to design, development and maintenance of cloud (AWS) and on-prem infrastructure used by ML engineers and data scientists.
• Support platform requests, troubleshoot issues and improve MLOps reliability and usability.
• Collaborate across teams to align stakeholders and advance shared technical work.
• Explain technical ideas and trade-offs clearly in PRs, design docs, incident reviews, and meetings.

Skills

Kubernetes expertise

GitOps workflows

Communication

Problem solving

Tools

AWS

Terraform/OpenTofu

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Medtronic plc is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for the AI and Data Science Platform team in the UK. You will design, build, and maintain cloud and on-prem infrastructure used by software, ML engineers and data scientists to develop new products.

You will work to enable rapid, scalable delivery, with a focus on reliability, security and developer experience. This role requires commuting to London 2 days per week and a hybrid work arrangement.