Sr Software Dev Ops Engineer

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 LifeLocated at the Medtronic office in the Hyderabad, as a DevOps Software Engineer you will lead and/or participate in supporting our CI/CD infrastructure for the software development organization. You will work in a fast-paced environment with a group of software engineers, software test engineers, system test engineers, project management, field service (among other disciplines) to deliver our surgical robotics software. Do you like Ansible? Do you know how to cross-compile 3rd party libraries from source and create a Debian package to distribute them? Are you a CMake expert? Are you the go-to source for Git commands and solutions on your team? Do you like automating yourself out of a task and then moving on to the next task to automate? Do you have strong linux admin skills? Do you enjoy a DevOps role that supports an embedded device? If any of those questions are relevant (and interesting) to you, we would welcome hearing from you.
Engineers create our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Combine the best of your experience with training and mentorship to move your career forward. If you want a challenging, energizing, rewarding career that changes lives, join us. Help us bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide.

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

• Support the software development life cycle for design, implementation, build, deployment and debugging of embedded software on a medical device.
• Hands-on experience developing and maintaining CI/CD automation processes & pipelines to enable fast, but safe delivery of embedded software to various stages.
• Develop & Maintain sound version control best practices-based CM systems (GIT), including branching and merging strategies.
• Serve as a technical lead for an Agile team and actively participate in all Agile ceremonies.
• Ability to automate release deployments across development, test, staging, Quality Assurance and production stacks using a combination of scripting languages and other automation toolkits.
• Set-up new VM based build environments, maintain existing environments and applications via configuration management such as Ansible & Terraform.
• Debug build issues for a cross-compiled, multi-target architecture based embedded product.  
• Scripting expertise, can (and frequently does) write scripts from scratch in Python, bash or similar language
• Analyze technology current tech stack and tools and make recommendations for further improvements.
• Identify processes and capabilities that can be streamlined and automated.
• Communicate effectively to help bridge stakeholder and development requirements.
• Integral in assisting software team with support and operations.
• Being able to work with our partner IT organizations to fulfill our technical project goals.

Required knowledge and experience:

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electrical, Electronics / equivalent from reputed institution.
• 8 to 12 years’ experience in Embedded Software verification & Validation with at least two (2) years’ experience in the medical device/Medical IT or regulated industry.
• Strong knowledge of Linux and Linux environments (Ubuntu, RHEL 6/7/8)
• Must be fluent with Git
• Fluent skills in object-oriented programming and experience in at least one programming language, C++ highly preferred.
• Experience in developing and commercializing software products in a fast-paced R&D environment, including understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and best practices in the medical device industry, experience in providing post product support.
• Experience integrating Jenkins/Bamboo and Docker for automated build and deployment
• Knowledge of security practices, networking protocols, firewalls, etc.
• Strong grasp of Linux platform.  
• Experience cross-compiling for other target architectures such as ARM as well as x86 based platforms.
• Experience with a real-time OS such as QNX.
• Familiarity with software development life cycle models, Agile, and DevOps programming methodologies.
• Experience managing/monitoring virtualized servers (either on-premise or cloud) for optimal performance
• Experience working cross functionally across multiple teams.
• Ability to successfully work with internal customers, developers, testers, systems, project management, and support staff
• Excellent problem solving, analytical skills and technical troubleshooting skills
• Experience with an embedded product build environment and tools (make, CMake, compilers, cross-compile tools, IDE's, etc)
• Experience working with the global/multi-development sites environment is a plus.
• Cybersecurity experience is desirable, designing and maintaining secure OS and applications (e.g. SSL/TLS, DTLS, TPM, Trusted/Secure Boot, Root of Trust, Authentication, Encryption, Public/Private Key, Key/Certificate Management, authenticated and secure communications protocols)

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