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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Application Infrastructure Engineer - **Company:** Medtronic Inc. - **Location:** Mounds View, MN, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $168,000.0 - $252,000.0 - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** 3D Visualization, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Web Development, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Modular Design, Anti-Phishing, Autoscaling, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Backend, Agentic-AI, Fastapi, Amazon Relational Database Service, Containerization, Gitlab-ci, AWS Fargate, Celery, Front End Software Development, Functional Programming, Cloudwatch, Terraform, Data Pipelines, Docker - **Published:** November 7, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/1_medtronic5-R80594 ## About the Role + Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience OR PhD with 3 years relevant experience + Terraform at scale: modular design, state management, multi-environment and multi-region deployments + AWS (ex: ECS/Fargate, EC2 and Auto Scaling, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFront, ALB) + Observability and troubleshooting experience (ex: CloudWatch or similar, alerting, dashboards, root cause analysis) + CI/CD (GitLab CI or similar), Docker/ECR, and developer environment tooling + Experience with cloud security and working through security reviews (ex: VPC networking, IAM, KMS encryption, WAF) **Preferred Qualifications** + Healthcare or regulated-industry compliance (HIPAA, FDA) + Comfortable reading and writing Python + GPU EC2 workloads, Packer AMI builds, or remote visualization (e.g. Amazon DCV) + AWS Batch or data pipeline infrastructure + FastAPI, Celery, or PostgreSQL **\#LI-MDT** For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. ยง 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required. **Physical Job Requirements** ## Description In this role, you'll help set the technical direction for the cloud infrastructure that powers the Affera Digital Platform, and keep it running smoothly for the people who depend on it. The platform supports mapper training, clinical management, quality investigation workflows, and R&D. It runs on AWS across multiple regions, orchestrates containerized workloads, serves a modern web frontend, manages a fleet of GPU instances for remote 3D visualization, and handles data ingestion pipelines. You'll ensure the platform is secure, reliable, and compliant with healthcare requirements including comprehensive audit trails. **Primary Responsibilities** Your time will be split roughly evenly between two areas. + On the reliability side, you'll be a US-based point of contact for the platform: investigating issues as they come up, improving monitoring, alerting, and dashboards, and turning recurring problems into lasting fixes. + On the infrastructure and developer experience side, you'll evolve our Terraform-based AWS infrastructure along with the CI/CD pipelines, environments, and tooling our engineers use every day, making it faster and safer to ship as more of our development is done alongside AI agents. + You'll work closely with backend, frontend, and DevOps engineers across the US and Europe, partner with Medtronic security and cloud teams on reviews and compliance, and contribute to architecture decisions around scalability, cost, and security., 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. 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. **U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship** At Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment. **Recruitment Fraud Alert** We are aware of phishing scams targeting job seekers. Please keep the following in mind: Apply only through official Medtronic channels. All legitimate Medtronic recruiting communications come from approved Medtronic platforms and official @medtronic.com email addresses. Medtronic will never ask for payment or sensitive personal information (such as bank account or Social Security details) during early stages of the hiring process. Any such requests are not legitimate. If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Medtronic, do not respond, click links, or open attachments. If you have any questions, concerns regarding the authenticity of a communication alleged to have been made by or on behalf of Medtronic, please contact us immediately at AskHR@medtronic.com .