Medtronic seeks to solve the problem of ensuring reliable, scalable, and secure observability for cloud-native applications in the Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) unit, which develops next-generation medical technologies to improve patient care globally.
Requirements
- 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.
- Deep expertise in managing Elastic Cloud (Kibana, Beats, Logstash, Index Lifecycle Policies).
- Hands-on experience with Dynatrace and Prometheus monitoring stacks, including exporter management and custom dashboards.
- Strong experience with AWS services (EC2, EKS, S3, IAM, etc.) and Streaming framework (Kafka etc.).
- Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or similar) for automation and integration.
- Proven leadership and mentorship experience; ability to lead cross-functional projects and develop junior team members.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Define and enforce data retention, access control, and multi-tenant observability strategies for Elastic and Prometheus.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical discipline and a minimum of 4 years of experience SRE, observability, platform engineering, or related technical disciplines, Master’s degree with a minimum of 2 years of technical experience.
- 4 days per week on-site work in Mounds View, MN.
- Less than 10% travel required.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
