At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Medtronic strives to enable earlier diagnosis, better treatment, faster complication-free recovery, and enhanced patient outcomes through less invasive surgical solutions. The Robotic Surgical Technologies Business Unit set the standard for Robotically Assisted Surgery (RAS) by creating innovative surgical products and services that focus on surgical procedures of diseases and conditions

Located at the Medtronic office in Munich, Germany, as a Principal DevOps Software Engineer you will lead and/or participate in supporting our CI/CD infrastructure for the software development organization. You will also be involved in the processes to develop, deploy, and operate infrastructure, tools, and services for our large and continuously growing SCM eco-system.

You will work in a fast-paced environment with a group of software engineers, software test engineers, system test engineers, project management, field service and other related disciplines to deliver our Surgical Robotics software. Do you like Ansible? Do you know how to cross-compile 3rd party libraries from source and create a Debian package to distribute them? Are you a CMake expert? Are you the go-to source for Git commands and solutions on your team? Do you like automating yourself out of a task and then moving on to the next task to automate? Do you have strong Linux admin skills? Do you enjoy a DevOps role that supports an embedded device? If any of those questions are relevant (and interesting) to you, we would welcome hearing from you.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We are working a minimum of 3 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Support the software development life cycle for design, implementation, build, test, deployment and debugging of embedded software on a medical device
• Architecting, implementing, and supporting an end-to-end CI/CD system which includes the Atlassian Suite of tools (Jira, Bit Bucket, Bamboo, Confluence) and JFrog Artifactory
• Lead and participate on a team of DevOps engineers to develop, deploy, and operate infrastructure, tools, and services for our large and continuously growing SCM eco-system
• Ability to automate release deployments across development, test, staging, Quality Assurance and production stacks using a combination of scripting languages and other automation toolkits
• Debug build issues for a cross-compiled, multi-target architecture based embedded product
• Identifying problem areas within the current software systems and crafting efficient solutions
• Collaborating with internal and external customers, partners, and leadership to define a roadmap for SCM systems that enables our customers to increase product development efficiency
• History of building automation to scale services and reduce operational overhead
• Crafting and implementing critical metrics using various analytics methods and dashboards
• Ability to work with our partner IT organizations to fulfill our technical project goals
• Serve as a technical lead for an Agile team and actively participate in all Agile ceremonies
• Lead by doing, taking a hands-on approach working with the engineers on the team
• Foster a culture of operational excellence, encouraging teams to continuously strive to improve the customer experience and drive impactful results.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• University Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent and several years of relevant work experience with preference for Master´s Degree or PhD preferred
• Strong SW engineering process skills including development, test, and deployment using infrastructure-as-code, scripting, and CI/CD automation
• Experience with an embedded product build environment and tools (make, CMake, compilers, cross-compile tools, IDE's, etc)
• Expert level automation skills and driving initiatives to automate processes
• Deep knowledge of Agile principles and practices and the ability to transfer that understanding at all levels of the organization
• Linux system administration experience (Ubuntu and RHEL knowledge strongly preferred)
• Strong expertise in scripting languages like Python and Shell
• Solid understanding of containerization tools like Docker
• Knowledge of DevOps monitoring systems such as Datadog, Grafana / Prometheus and/or similar systems.

You ideally bring in more than 5 years of proven track record crafting and implementing sophisticated software systems. An expert level expertise building and running large scale Git infrastructure is also desirable as well as a proven track record of developer operations supporting an embedded device. Experience in forecasting and budgeting is another nice to have.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

Benefits & Compensation Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package

A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik:  Germany: 90,400.00 EUR - 135,600.00 EUR |

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000 passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here