Senior DevOps & Observability Engineer

Devopsroles; Galway; Hybrid; EUR 66,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic Ireland seeks a Sr. Software DevOps Engineer to lead the observability stack across Elastic Cloud, Dynatrace, Prometheus, and AWS. The role targets design, automation, and reliable delivery of observability services while mentoring engineers.

You will define SLIs/SLOs, integrate tools into CI/CD, and drive reliability across cloud-native applications, contributing to innovative healthcare tech. The position emphasizes collaboration, on-call readiness, and continuous improvement in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience SRE, observability, platform engineering, or related fields, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years of technical experience.

Responsibilities

• Solid understanding of distributed systems, containers (Docker), Kubernetes, and microservices observability patterns.
• Proven track record implementing Terraform and GitOps practices to enable scalable, reliable, and automated infrastructure delivery.
• Own the architecture, implementation, and lifecycle management of the observability platform (Elastic Cloud, Dynatrace, Prometheus, & more).
• Lead efforts to improve logging, monitoring, metrics collection, distributed tracing, and alerting across cloud-native applications.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, and Architecture teams to define SLIs/SLOs and implement robust observability standards.
• Evangelize for all observability-related initiatives and mentor junior engineers in best practices.
• Integrate observability tools into CI/CD pipelines to enable proactive detection and incident response.
• Participate in on-call rotations and post-incident reviews, driving reliability improvements across the platform.

Skills

Elastic Cloud

Dynatrace

Prometheus

AWS services

Kafka

Python

Bash

Terraform

GitOps

SLIs/SLOs

observability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

Kibana

Logstash

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Medtronic Ireland seeks a Sr. Software DevOps Engineer to lead the observability stack across Elastic Cloud, Dynatrace, Prometheus, and AWS. The role targets design, automation, and reliable delivery of observability services while mentoring engineers.

You will define SLIs/SLOs, integrate tools into CI/CD, and drive reliability across cloud-native applications, contributing to innovative healthcare tech. The position emphasizes collaboration, on-call readiness, and continuous improvement in a