Principal Software Cloud Engineer - Hybrid Cloud Platform Owner

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 7 Nov 2026   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 The Cloud Platform Services enables Medtronic's global technology infrastructure, platforms, and services that support enterprise applications, data, automation, and emerging artificial intelligence capabilities. This team is responsible for delivering secure, scalable, and reliable hybrid cloud platforms that support business operations and technology innovation across the enterprise. This position is based in Mounds View, Minnesota and follows an onsite work style, with employees expected to work onsite four days per week and remotely one day per week.                     The Principal Software Cloud Engineer - Hybrid Cloud Platform Owner serves as the technical leader and product owner for Medtronic's hybrid cloud platform. This role is responsible for defining platform strategy, prioritizing capabilities, guiding infrastructure modernization initiatives, and ensuring the platform delivers scalable, secure, and reliable services for enterprise workloads, modern applications, and artificial intelligence enablement. Primary Responsibilities • Define and execute the hybrid cloud platform roadmap aligned to enterprise infrastructure strategy. • Serve as technical product owner for global private cloud services and platform capabilities. • Lead platform architecture decisions that improve scalability, reliability, security, and operational performance. • Drive infrastructure modernization initiatives, including virtualization and cloud platform transformation efforts. • Partner with application, architecture, engineering, operations, security, and finance teams to prioritize platform investments and capabilities. • Advance automation through Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), and platform engineering practices. • Establish platform standards, governance, documentation, and operational processes to improve consistency and service reliability. • Communicate platform priorities, dependencies, risks, and technology decisions to technical and business stakeholders. Required Qualifications • Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of infrastructure, cloud platform, or systems engineering experience OR advanced degree with 5+ years of infrastructure, cloud platform, or systems engineering experience. • Experience with VMware infrastructure or Nutanix platforms, and large-scale migration initiatives • Experience supporting hybrid cloud, virtualization, or enterprise infrastructure environments. • Experience leading technical initiatives, platform ownership, or cross-functional technology programs. • Experience with infrastructure automation, scripting, or Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices. • Experience translating business requirements into technical solutions and platform priorities. Preferred Qualifications • Experience with Terraform, Ansible, VMware Aria, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, Rancher, or related cloud infrastructure technologies. • Experience with Public Cloud, Azure, AWS or GCP • Experience supporting artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), graphics processing unit (GPU), or high-performance computing environments. • Experience with FinOps practices, cloud cost optimization, total cost of ow