Prin Software Cloud Engineer AWS Design Engineer.

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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 bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do.

In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work.

The person in this role will work remotely from Costa Rica, with occasional on-site activities at our campus in El Coyol Free Zone, Alajuela.

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.

Our unwavering commitment to inclusion, diversity, and equity (ID&E) means zero barriers to opportunity within Medtronic and a culture where all employees belong, are respected, and feel valued for who they are and the life experiences they contribute.

We know equity starts beyond our workplace, and we must play a role in addressing systemic inequities in our communications to achieve long-term sustainable impact.

Anchored in our Mission, we continue to drive ID&E forward both to enhance the well-being of Medtronic employees and to accelerate innovation that brings our lifesaving technologies to more people in more places around the world.

Bring your talents to an industry leader in medical technology and healthcare solutions – we’re a market leader and growing every day.

You can be proud to be a part of technologies that are rooted in our long history of mission-driven innovation.

You will be empowered to shape your own career.

We encourage and support your growth with the training, mentorship, and guidance you need to own your future success.

Together, we can transform healthcare.

Join us for a career in IT that changes lives.

Medtronic is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture.

Check out the accomplishments of our Women in IT group! http://bit.ly/MedtronicWomeninIT

Key Responsibilities:
Work directly with application teams to design and deliver compliant solutions on AWS.

Drive migration initiatives: Partner with app owners, architects, and business stakeholders to plan, coordinate, and execute changes to modernize critical workloads.

Design and implement architectures that ensure seamless interoperability across on-premises cloud, public cloud, and edge platforms, always with an eye on efficiency, security, and performance.

Champion Cost Optimization: Work closely with FinOps and finance teams to build business cases, model TCO/ROI, and track cloud and on-prem spend.

Drive cost transparency and optimization initiatives.

Enable Automation & Modernization: Identify and implement opportunities for automation, CI/CD integration, and infrastructure-as-code within AWS cloud environments.

Lead & Mentor: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to both onshore and offshore partners; foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.

Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate roadmap, benefits, risks, and progress to business and technical teams.

Gather feedback, conduct analysis, and iterate to deliver value to our stakeholders.

Document & Share Knowledge: Maintain up-to-date system diagrams, playbooks, and standard operating procedures.

Monitor Industry Trends: Support R&D and engineering with emerging technologies and best practices—helping Medtronic adapt and adopt to accelerate innovation initiatives.

Make a difference: Contribute your talent to a world leader in healthcare that develops therapies to improve the lives of millions of people around the world.

Requisites / Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering o related fields.

7+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 5+ years of experience with an advanced degree.

Preferred Qualifications:

Strongly Preferred:

Experience with Infrastructure as Code implementations leveraging tools like Terraform, CloudFormation and Ansible.

Experience with Kubernetes implementation at the infrastructure deployment and provisioning level.

3+ years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing AWS infrastructure.

Experience troubleshooting AWS cloud deployments and associated components (storage, networking, compute, Windows and Linux operating systems).

Strong experience leading technical teams or projects, especially across multiple time zones and cultures.

Ability to translate business needs into actionable technical requirements and user stories.

Experience with container platforms (AWS EKS, AWS ECS, Docker, Tanzu, OpenShift), especially in AWS or migration scenarios.

Experience with hardware supporting GPU enabled AI/ML and or High-Performance Computing environments.

Working knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code in cloud computing settings.

Proficient with scripting/automation with Python.

Experience with topics such as IT cost management, FinOps, TCO analysis, chargeback/showback, and cloud spend optimization.

Background in network/storage troubleshooting and optimization.

Knowledge of data migration tools, capabilities and methodologies (e.g., AWS Snowball, AWS DataSync, VMware HCX).

Experience collaborating with or mentoring global/offshore teams.

Strong communication, stakeholder management, and change management skills.

Experience supporting infrastructure and operations for predictive analytics, AI/ML, or automation in IT delivery.

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

+ Supports development and execution of the organization's cloud strategy from a technical perspective, including design, planning, integration, maintenance and support of cloud architecture.
+ Works with stakeholders across the organization to evaluate cloud systems and identify appropriate solutions.
+ Responsible for complete end to end project management for the assigned project(s) which includes project planning, delivery, client interaction, trouble shooting and implementation support.
+ Drives the application of principles, theories and concepts based on the Cloud Stack and determines the best course of action.
+ Assesses opportunities for application and process improvement and prepares documentation to share with team members and other affected parties.
+ Requires sound technical knowledge combined with reasonable understanding of business issues.

**TECHNICAL SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM:** An individual contributor with responsibility in our technical functions to advance existing technology or introduce new technology and therapies.

Formulates, delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results.

May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals.

The majority of time is spent delivering R&D, systems or initiatives related to new technologies or therapies – from design to implementation - while adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills.

**DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS**

**Autonomy:** Recognized expert, managing large projects or processes.
Exercises considerable latitude in determining deliverables of assignments, with limited oversight from manager.
Coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower level specialists.

**Organizational Impact:** Contributes to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on work group results.
May manage large projects or processes that span outside of immediate job area.

**Innovation and Complexity:** Problems and issues faced are difficult, moderately complex and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation.
Develops solutions to moderately complex problems, and/or makes moderate to significant improvements of processes, systems or products independently to enhance performance of job area.
Implements solutions to problems.

**Communication and Influence:** Represents organization as a primary contact for specific projects and initiatives; communicates with internal and external customers and vendors at various levels.
May negotiate with others to reach understanding or agreement, and influence decision-making.

**Leadership and Talent Management:** Typically provides guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area.
Typically manages major / moderately complex projects, involving delegation of work and review of work products, at times acting as a team leader.

**Required Knowledge and Experience:** Requires a Baccalaureate degree and minimum of 7 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR PhD with 3 years relevant experience.

**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 (http://www.medtronic.com)

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.

**We change lives** .

Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes.

Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people.

That’s who we are.

Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

**We build extraordinary solutions as one team** .

With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work.

Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA.

Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way.

And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

**This life-changing career is yours to engineer** .

By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

+ **Build** a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world
+ **Grow** a career reflective of your passion and abilities
+ **Connect** to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

**Experiences that put people first** .

Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity.

It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life.

And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

**Life-transforming technologies** .

No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives.

What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

**Better outcomes for our world** .

Here, it’s about more than the bottom line.

Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us.

We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

**Insight-driven care** .

Fresh viewpoints.

Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation.

You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

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