Principal Embedded Software DevOps Engineer

Principal Embedded Software DevOps Engineer

Medtronic

Munich, Germany

A Day in the Life

Located at the Medtronic office in Munich, Germany, as a Principal DevOps Software Engineer you will lead and/or participate in supporting our CI/CD infrastructure for the software development organization. You will also be involved in the processes to develop, deploy, and operate infrastructure, tools, and services for our large and continuously growing SCM eco-system.

You will work in a fast-paced environment with a group of software engineers, software test engineers, system test engineers, project management, field service and other related 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.

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

• Support the software development life cycle for design, implementation, build, test, deployment and debugging of embedded software on a medical device;
• Architecting, implementing, and supporting an end-to-end CI/CD system which includes the Atlassian Suite of tools (Jira, BitBucket, Bamboo, Confluence) and JFrog Artifactory;
• Lead and participate on a team of DevOps engineers to develop, deploy, and operate infrastructure, tools, and services for our large and continuously growing SCM eco-system;
• Ability to automate release deployments across development, test, staging, Quality Assurance and production stacks using a combination of scripting languages and other automation toolkits;
• Debug build issues for a cross-compiled, multi-target architecture based embedded product;
• Identifying problem areas within the current software systems and crafting efficient solutions;
• Collaborating with internal and external customers, partners, and leadership to define a roadmap for SCM systems that enables our customers to increase product development efficiency;
• History of building automation to scale services and reduce operational overhead;
• Crafting and implementing critical metrics using various analytics methods and dashboards;
• Ability to work with our partner IT organizations to fulfill our technical project goals;
• Serve as a technical lead for an Agile team and actively participate in all Agile ceremonies;
• Lead by doing, taking a hands-on approach working with the engineers on the team;
• Foster a culture of operational excellence, encouraging teams to continuously strive to improve the customer experience and drive impactful results.

Required Knowledge and Experience

• University Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent and several years of relevant work experience with preference for Master´s Degree or PhD preferred;
• Strong SW engineering process skills including development, test, and deployment using infrastructure-as-code, scripting, and CI/CD automation;
• Experience with an embedded product build environment and tools (make, CMake, compilers, cross-compile tools, IDE's, etc.);
• Expert level automation skills and driving initiatives to automate processes;
• Deep knowledge of Agile principles and practices and the ability to transfer that understanding at all levels of the organization;
• Linux system administration experience (Ubuntu and RHEL knowledge strongly preferred);
• Strong expertise in scripting languages like Python and Shell;
• Solid understanding of containerization tools like Docker;
• Knowledge of DevOps monitoring systems such as Datadog, Grafana/Prometheus and/or similar systems.

You ideally bring in more than 5 years of proven track record crafting and implementing sophisticated software systems. An expert level expertise building and running large scale Git infrastructure is also desirable as well as a proven track record of developer operations supporting an embedded device. Experience in forecasting and budgeting is another nice to have.