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

At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to make tomorrow better than yesterday and that makes it an exciting and rewarding place to work. We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.
As Sr. Database Engineer, you will be a part of our Global DBA team responsible for providing design and support. The Database Architect role is pivotal in establishing our Database as A Service model for cloud-based and on-premises database deployments.

The Database Engineer works as a part of a team of database architects, solution architects, engineers and business customers to bring industry best practices to automate the database provisioning, Configuration, security, reliability and availability. This role will work with a Global IT team to engineer solutions to complex business problems while leveraging open source and traditional databases.

Your commitment to drive and managing high quality execution, operational excellence and delivering technology solutions that meet business needs and optimize customer experience will have a direct impact on the organization, and ultimately, affect the lives of millions.
We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

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

• Participate in a global team of Database Architects, Engineers, and Administrators.
• Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Automate the provisioning and management of database infrastructure for Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and other database engines.
• Provide hands-on technical support across various on-premises and cloud-based database offerings.
• Deploy configurations, database settings, parameters, patching, and tools on multiple instances using Ansible playbooks to manage database configurations, apply patches, and deploy necessary tools.
• Integrate Service Catalog of Service Now/First with Terraform and Ansible to automate requests.
• Provision databases on Kubernetes (Tanzu & EKS) containers using IaC.
• Integrate Terraform code repository with CI/CD Platform on Gitlab or GitHub.
• Utilize database monitoring technologies for on-premises and cloud-based databases, including Solar Winds, RDS Console, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Cloudera Manager, or custom scripts to track performance metrics and detect issues.
• Provide experience with enterprise backup and recovery tools and techniques for full, incremental, online, offline, and transaction log backups.
• Collaborate with IT teams and business partners to identify and implement opportunities to improve database performance, reliability, scalability, and availability.
• Demonstrate willingness to contribute, learn, and grow as a member of a team that supports a variety of technologies.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• B. Tech or any post graduation is required.
• Minimum of 8 - 12 years of Senior Database experience as Architect, Engineer or App DBA.
• Minimum of 4-6 years of experience with Infrastructure as Code skills, utilizing tools such as Terraform and Ansible for database operations.
• Minimum of 3-4 years of experience with configuration and utilization of GitLab/GitHub, preferably.
• 3-4 years of experience in provisioning databases on Kubernetes containers.
• Knowledge of IAM solutions, including Cyber Ark, Vault, Secrets Manager, etc.

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.

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