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 LifeTogether, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to help alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.
We can accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations – but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.
Medtronic is seeking a skilled Identity and Access Management IT Engineer / Architect to join our dynamic team. This role focuses on supporting application development and run support for our manufacturing digital transformation solutions in the areas of identity and access management, encryption, authentication, certificate management, and Kubernetes orchestration. This position is fully remote
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- Identity Management: design, implement, and manage identity management solutions for custom developed applications. Support user provisioning, de-provisioning, and access management processes and automation and ensure compliance with identity and access management policies
- Encryption: implement and maintain encryption protocols to protect sensitive data, manage encryption keys and ensure secure storage and access and monitor and audit encryption processes for compliance and effectiveness
- Authentication: develop and support authentication mechanisms, including multi-factor authentication (MFA). Troubleshoot and resolve authentication-related issues and stay updated with the latest authentication technologies and best practices. Provide guidance and recommendations for constrained device authentication and access policies
- Certificate Management: manage the lifecycle of digital certificates, including issuance, renewal, and revocation. Ensure secure storage and handling of certificates and implement intermediate certificate issuers and support developers in automation for certificate rotation
- Kubernetes orchestration: support containerized application development and deployment. Monitor and optimize Kubernetes performance and scalability and improve service availability across cloud and ground clusters
- Run Support: provide ongoing support and maintenance for applications and services. Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in a timely manner. Mentor and develop offshore support team members too
Required Knowledge and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field
- Seven years of years of experience in IT engineering
- Four years of experience in IT engineering, with a focus on identity management, encryption, authentication, certificate management, and Kubernetes orchestration
- Strong understanding of security best practices and compliance requirements
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) and automation tools
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities
Certifications in relevant technologies, such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), are highly valued. Additionally, experience with DevOps practices and tools, including continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and GitOps, is a plus. A strong familiarity with microservices architecture and containerization technologies is also important.
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
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What We Do
Medtronic is a global healthcare solutions company operating in approximately 160 countries. We are committed to improving lives through our medical technologies, services, and solutions. Since our beginning, 60 years ago, our Mission has remained the same: to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for people around the world. The Mission is our ethical framework and inspirational goal guiding our day-to-day work. It reminds us that our efforts are transforming millions of lives each year. To meet the needs of patients and healthcare professionals around the globe, we operate from more than 370 locations in approximately 160 countries.
