Principal Application Infrastructure Engineer

Medtronic

. Build and run the cloud infrastructure behind the Affera Digital Platform .

Posted 11/5/2026full-timeUnited StatesLead💰 $168,000 - $252,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and managing cloud infrastructure, particularly with AWS and Terraform, while ensuring compliance with healthcare standards. Proficient in CI/CD practices and cloud security, with a focus on observability and troubleshooting.

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AWS ExperienceTerraform At ScaleCI/CD ExperienceCloud Security ExperienceObservability And Troubleshooting

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Hard Skills

TerraformAWS ECS/FargateAWS EC2AWS LambdaAWS RDSAWS S3AWS CloudFrontAWS ALBCI/CD With GitLab CIDocker/ECR

Tools & Technologies

CloudWatchMonitoring ToolsAlerting SystemsDashboardsDeveloper Environment Tooling

Industry Keywords

Healthcare ComplianceAudit TrailsVPC NetworkingIAMKMS EncryptionWAF

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDockerEC2Terraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and run the cloud infrastructure behind the Affera Digital Platform
Set the technical direction for cloud infrastructure
Ensure the platform is secure, reliable, and compliant with healthcare requirements, including comprehensive audit trails
Investigate platform issues as a U.S.-based point of contact
Improve monitoring, alerting, and dashboards
Turn recurring problems into lasting fixes
Evolve Terraform-based AWS infrastructure
Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines, environments, and developer tooling
Make software delivery faster and safer as development increasingly works alongside AI agents
Collaborate with backend, frontend, and DevOps engineers across the US and Europe
Partner with Medtronic security and cloud teams on reviews and compliance
Contribute to architecture decisions involving scalability, cost, and security
Support infrastructure for mapper training, clinical management, quality investigation workflows, and R&D
Operate AWS infrastructure across multiple regions, containerized workloads, web frontend services, GPU instances for remote 3D visualization, and data ingestion pipelines

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience OR PhD with 3 years relevant experience
Terraform at scale, including modular design, state management, and multi-environment and multi-region deployments
AWS experience, including ECS/Fargate, EC2 and Auto Scaling, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFront, and ALB
Observability and troubleshooting experience, including CloudWatch or similar, alerting, dashboards, and root cause analysis
CI/CD experience with GitLab CI or similar
Docker/ECR and developer environment tooling
Cloud security experience and working through security reviews, including VPC networking, IAM, KMS encryption, and WAF
For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree satisfying 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required
Principal-level U.S. work authorization sponsorship policy applies; roles below Principal require unrestricted U.S. work authorization at hire and throughout employment

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary
Flexible benefits package
Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health Savings Account
Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
Life insurance
Long-term disability leave
Dependent daycare spending account
Tuition assistance/reimbursement
Simple Steps global well-being program
Incentive plans
401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
Short-term disability
Paid time off
Paid holidays
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Employee Assistance Program
Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement
Capital Accumulation Plan for Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums
Temporary employees: paid sick time as required by applicable state law
Temporary employees: Employee Stock Purchase Plan
U.S. work authorization sponsorship for Principal-level roles and above, where applicable