Software Dev Ops Engineer II - Nutanix, EKS

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

At Medtronic, we contribute to human welfare and wellbeing through biomedical engineering. Every day we’re involved in meaningful work to change people’s lives and health for the better. Now is your chance to join a talented team of infrastructure software engineers focused on providing software development pipelines and frameworks to our research scientists, medical device manufacturing teams, regulatory, IT, marketing, and sales teams across our company. Our small product teams focus on several platforms and pipelines including Kubernetes and container services and technologies, full-stack observability, application CI/CD DevSecOps deployment pipelines, as well as global source code and binary repository services.

This position as Platform Engineer focuses on continuing to innovate, extend, and deploy our internally developed platforms based on opensource standards used for deploying and managing Gitlab and JFrog Artifactory services; these services are currently hosted in both our internal datacenters and in their respective vendor SaaS platforms. Your assignment is to meet the technology and streamlined platform needs for our Medtronic’s business units source code management or binary release management. Our platform is built and managed using programmatic pipelines developed and managed using a variety of software code and scripting languages, including but limited to, Terraform, Golang, CloudFormation, Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD, Lambda, some Python, and Java scripting.

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

• Review platform health, Kubernetes cluster status, Nutanix Prism alerts, capacity, node health, storage, and overnight incidents.
• Daily operations: Troubleshoot Kubernetes workloads, networking, storage, ingress, DNS, container runtime, and Nutanix infrastructure issues.
• Platform administration: Manage cluster provisioning, node scaling, upgrades, patches, certificates, RBAC, namespaces, policies, and platform configurations.
• Platform engineering: Build and enhance reusable Kubernetes platform capabilities, including cluster templates, Helm charts, operators, ingress, storage, monitoring, and security integrations.
• Automation: Develop Terraform/Ansible automation and CI/CD/GitOps workflows to eliminate manual infrastructure and cluster operations.
• Developer enablement: Work with application teams to onboard workloads, resolve platform dependencies, and provide self-service capabilities.
• Security & compliance: Implement and validate RBAC, network policies, admission policies, secrets management, image security, and platform compliance controls.
• Observability: Monitor platform performance using Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, or enterprise monitoring tools and proactively address capacity or reliability concerns.
• Collaboration: Partner with Infrastructure, Network, Security, DevOps, and Application teams on platform architecture and operational improvements.
• Continuous improvement: Identify repetitive operational activities and convert them into automated, scalable, and self-service platform capabilities.
• Review incidents and platform changes, update documentation, track operational risks, and ensure critical issues have clear ownership and next steps.
• Be engaged, skilled, and eager to work closely with stakeholders and clients and create positive interactions and relationships to continue to drive the value of the platform higher for their business needs.
• Be an integral member of technical staff and help develop, test, deploy, and operate our services 24x7x365 globally

Required Knowledge and Expertise:

• 3+ years of IT experience with a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, MCA, or MSc.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Kubernetes administration and platform engineering.
• Strong experience with Nutanix AHV and Prism Central.
• Strong experience in Nutanix Karbon / NKP / Nutanix Kubernetes Platform.
• Experience in Nutanix Flow networking and security.
• Experience building and managing Kubernetes clusters on Nutanix/NC2 or similar private-cloud platforms.
• Strong understanding of Linux, networking, DNS, load balancing, storage, and virtualization.
• Experience with Docker/containerd, Helm, Ingress, CSI, CNI, and Kubernetes operators.
• Proficiency in Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure automation.
• Experience with GitLab/GitHub, CI/CD, GitOps, Argo CD/Flux, and automated deployment.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes security, RBAC, policy enforcement, vulnerability management, and secrets management.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and platform observability.
• Strong troubleshooting, automation, documentation, and incident-management skills.
• Build, operate, automate, secure, and continuously improve enterprise Nutanix & Kubernetes platforms while enabling development teams with reliable self-service capabilities

Nice To Have:

• Cilium, Calico, MetalLB, NGINX/HAProxy, and enterprise load balancers.
• Rancher, OpenShift, EKS, or AKS.
• Kyverno / OPA Gatekeeper.
• Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, ELK/OpenSearch.
• Python, Bash, or PowerShell scripting.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale Kubernetes platforms and self-service developer platforms.

 

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. 

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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).