Platform Engineer I

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact. A Day in the Life The Patient Care Systems (PCS) organisation develops and supports the software ecosystem that enables the monitoring, management, and protection of patients living with implantable cardiac devices. The Cloud & Engineering Platforms function provides the shared platforms, automation, infrastructure, security, data, and engineering enablement capabilities that support software development and operational excellence across PCS teams. This team focuses on improving reliability, scalability, developer productivity, and platform adoption through modern cloud and platform engineering practices. This role is at our Campus in Parkmore, Galway City, Ireland and is a hybrid working model. As a Platform Engineer I, you will contribute to the development, operation, and continuous improvement of shared engineering platforms and services used across the Patient Care Systems organisation. Working with software engineers, architects, security specialists, data professionals, and infrastructure teams, you will help build automation, improve platform reliability, and support engineering workflows that enable the delivery of connected healthcare solutions.

Contribute to the development and operation of shared engineering platforms and services. Build and maintain automation that improves developer productivity, operational efficiency, and platform reliability. Support software delivery, infrastructure, data, security, and engineering enablement initiatives. Participate in the design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support of platform capabilities. Troubleshoot technical issues and contribute to root cause analysis and corrective actions. Develop reusable tools, documentation, and operational runbooks that simplify engineering workflows. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable and reliable platform solutions. Apply engineering practices related to cloud computing, automation, software development, security, and operational excellence.

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline. Academic, internship, project, or professional experience with programming, scripting, automation, cloud technologies, or data systems. Demonstrated ability to analyse technical problems and develop effective solutions. Effective written and verbal communication skills. Ability to work collaboratively within a technical team environment.

Experience with cloud platforms and infrastructure services. Experience developing software using modern programming or scripting languages. Exposure to source control, automated testing, and continuous integration or continuous delivery practices. Experience with containerisation, infrastructure automation, databases, event streaming, or distributed systems. Exposure to observability, monitoring, security, quality, or developer enablement tooling.   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.  ‌ Recruitment Fraud Alert   We are aware of phishing scams targeting job seekers. Please keep the following in mind:  Apply only through official Medtronic channels. All legitimate Medtronic recruiting communications come from approved Medtronic