We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 20 Nov 2025  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.<h1>A Day in the Life</h1>The Director, Cloud Engineering, will be responsible for the overall company-wide cloud strategy and account footprint, core infrastructure, and cloud architecture advice and support. This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronics Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic, subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential, enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.<div><div>Key Duties and Responsibilities: </div><div><ul><li>Responsible for ensuring the scalability, reliability, and security of the companys cloud environments and technologies </li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Setting strategic directions for cloud engineering, designing modern architectures for multi-cloud deployments, evaluating future technical solutions, and assessing security risks </li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Work closely with leaders in Product Engineering, Global Engineering, Infrastructure, Operations, Security Architecture, and solution stakeholders to develop a premier cloud ecosystem to support platform evolution and delivery velocity </li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Lead and grow the Cloud Engineering team, fostering a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and continuous learning </li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Cloud Infrastructure - Own the design, implementation, and scalability of our AWS-based and Azure-based infrastructure, including networking, compute, storage </li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Ensure high availability, performance, and resilience of production systems across services and environments </li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Collaborate with Cybersecurity to automate security best practices, vulnerability management, and compliance controls  </li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Design, deploy, and maintain scalable and highly available cloud infrastructure solutions </li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Utilize Cloud tools and methodologies to assess, plan, and execute migrations of workloads to the new platforms </li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless application migrations across compute, storage, networking, and security </li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Evolve our CI/CD pipelines for rapid, safe, and reliable deployments across all engineering teams </li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Drive improvements in monitoring, logging, and tracing using modern observability tools (e.g., Datadog) </li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Proactively manage cloud cost efficiency while ensuring performance and redundancy standards </li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Develop and manage a FinOps and Cloud Enablement function that partners with business and engineering teams to optimize cost, performance, and speed to market  </li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Promote governance-by-design through infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, and intelligent automation to ensure secure, compliant, and scalable cloud operations  </li></ul></div><div>Knowledge and Skills: </div><div><ul><li>Proven success leading high-availability, large-scale infrastructure in AWS, Azure or other major cloud environments </li></ul></div></div><div><div><ul><li>Deep expertise in container orchestration, and cloud-native application delivery </li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, Helm) and GitOps workflows </li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Strong understanding of networking, IAM, service mesh, and zero-trust principles in cloud environments </li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Familiarity with incident management, SRE principles, and building operational playbooks </li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Strong programming or scripting skills (e.g., Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell). </li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills. </li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Passion for automation, platform resilience, and scaling systems intelligently </li></ul></div><div>Education and Experience: </div><div><ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field </li></ul></div><div><ul><li>10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure or SRE/Platform roles, including 7+ years in technical leadership or management -  or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience with 7+ years of managerial experience. </li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Experience managing global teams, including offshore delivery models </li></ul></div><div>Preferred Skills: </div><div><ul><li>Agile and DevOps methodologies </li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Experience with hybrid environments and cloud migrations </li></ul></div><div> </div></div>Physical Job RequirementsThe 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. The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.<h1>Benefits &amp; Compensation  </h1>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.  Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$176,800.00 - $265,200.00This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).<h2></h2><h2></h2>This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan.The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program). The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums). Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns.  Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico. Further details are available at the link below:<a href="https://www3.benefitsolver.com/benefits/BenefitSolverView?page_name=signon&amp;co_num=30601&amp;co_affid=medtronic" target="_blank">Medtronic benefits and compensation plans</a><h1>About Medtronic</h1><h1></h1>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&amp;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 <a href="http://www.medtronic.com" target="_blank">here</a>.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.<div><div><div><div><div><div><div>If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic, Inc. (“Medtronic”) in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, you can find <a href="https://www.medtronic.com/content/dam/medtronic-wide/public/united-states/employee-support-services/careers/la-county-legal-notice.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>