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, a