Senior Platform Engineer - AI/ML Infrastructure

About the role

Medtronic's Surgical Operating Unit (SOU) is developing high-performance systems that enable edge computing and connectivity, and its Surgical AI Centre of Excellence uses data science and computer vision to improve surgical care. As a Senior Platform Engineer in the AI and Data Science Platform team, you will help design, build and maintain cloud and on-prem infrastructure used by Software Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers and Data Scientists.

Key responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, development and maintenance of cloud (AWS) and on-prem infrastructure used by ML Engineers, Data Scientists and new product teams.
• Support ML engineers by responding to platform service requests, troubleshooting issues and improving the reliability and usability of the MLOps platform.
• Build working relationships across engineering teams to align stakeholders and advance shared technical work.
• Explain technical ideas, risks and trade-offs clearly in pull requests, design documents, incident reviews and meetings.

Required profile

• Ability to assess complex platform needs, define practical solutions and deliver with limited supervision.
• Proven ability to improve developer experience, reliability, security, delivery speed or operational efficiency.
• Collaborative team player who gives and receives constructive feedback.
• Willingness to commute to London 2 days per week.
• Experience in a Kanban and/or Scrum role preferred; machine learning experience a plus.

Required skills

• Strong practical Kubernetes experience (Pods, ReplicaSets, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Services, PVs/PVCs, Helm).
• GitOps mindset with declarative, version-controlled delivery and PR workflows.
• Cloud infrastructure experience, with AWS strongly preferred.
• Practical Terraform and/or OpenTofu experience.
• Hands-on Docker experience.
• Understanding of cloud primitives: IAM, networking, compute, storage and observability.
• Experience operating production systems, including incident diagnosis and safe change management.

What we offer

• Salary range in the United Kingdom of 76,800 to 115,200 GBP, depending on experience and skills.
• Eligibility for the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
• A wide range of benefits and resources.