Medtronic is seeking to transform patient management with smart technology by enhancing their observability stack across Elastic Cloud, Dynatrace, Prometheus, and AWS to drive reliability and provide actionable insights into their systems and applications.
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.)
- Optimize cost, performance, and scalability of observability services within AWS.
- Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or similar) for automation and integration.
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
- This role is a technical leadership position responsible for setting the strategic direction of observability, mentoring a growing team of engineers, and driving reliability through actionable insights into our systems and applications.
- Proven leadership and mentorship experience; ability to lead cross-functional projects and develop junior team members.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
- This position is in Mounds View, MN. within the Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) unit.
- We are working on-site 4 days per week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.
