Leader, Core Platform & Identity Services

About This Role

Lead the strategy, reliability, security, and operational excellence of Medtronic's core digital infrastructure and identity platforms. This role involves managing teams that design, operate, and continuously improve private cloud hosting, datacenter services, and enterprise identity services crucial for all digital products and business operations.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end strategy and operations for private cloud hosting and datacenter environments, including compute, storage, and virtualization platforms
• Lead capacity planning, performance engineering, and scalability initiatives to meet current and future business demands
• Establish and operate resilience, backup, and disaster recovery strategies aligned to business continuity requirements
• Implement and mature Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident management
• Drive automation, standardization, and infrastructure-as-code to improve reliability, speed, and operational efficiency
• Own enterprise internet services including internal and external DNS, domain portfolio management, and SSL certificate lifecycle management
• Lead Active Directory and Microsoft Entra (Azure AD) platforms, including authentication, authorization, and identity lifecycle integrations
• Establish comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting across infrastructure and identity platforms
• Partner with Cybersecurity and Risk teams to ensure platforms meet security, regulatory, and compliance requirements
• Own operational budgets, cost optimization initiatives, and vendor relationships for private cloud, datacenter, and internet services
• Build, lead, and develop high-performing infrastructure and SRE teams

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or reliability engineering leadership roles
• Proven experience operating private cloud, datacenter, and enterprise identity platforms at scale
• Strong background in SRE, high-availability architectures, and disaster recovery
• Hands-on knowledge of Active Directory and Microsoft Entra (Azure AD)
• Experience with DNS, SSL certificate management, and internet-facing enterprise services
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, mission-critical platforms in regulated environments

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or reliability engineering leadership roles

Nice to Have

• Experience in cloud-adjacent or hybrid environments (private cloud integrated with public cloud)
• Familiarity with modern observability platforms and AIOps capabilities
• Experience supporting business separations, carve-outs, or large-scale platform transformations

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits