Sustaining Engineer Salary in Minneapolis, MN

The Architect II assists in creation of best practices and is responsible for designing and effectively implementing AWS strategies and solutions in alignment with IT strategy and guidelines. This position assists in the development of actionable AWS blueprints, principles, models, designs, standards, and guidelines for assigned projects/initiatives to ensure information technology architecture is consistent, usable, secure and adds value to the business. The position helps facilitate design and implementation of flexible, scalable, and cost-effective AWS solutions and provides technical guidance to subordinate group. Accountable for adhering to corporate architecture standards, ensuring technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization and contributing to corporate architecture strategy-setting. Participates in formulating solution estimates and work planning including determining appropriate task sequencing and identification of technical skill sets required. Builds consensus around principles of infrastructure architecture and interprets and clarifies these principles. Participates in the evaluation, selection and implementation of AWS technology solutions including providing detailed analysis of pros and cons. Maintains operational, architectural and design documentation including procedures, task lists, and reference architecture. Evaluates strengths and flaws in infrastructure design including performance, quality, availability, simplicity of design, security, and total cost of ownership. Assists in the facilitation of project handoffs including preparing documentation, educating, and supporting to ensure smooth transitions. Establishes and maintains relationships with IT and business area partners and provides consultation to the business teams. Troubleshoots, recommends, and executes action plans for issue resolution. Selects and designs tools that allow reuse of design components and patterns between projects. Continually works to enhance breadth and depth of knowledge and experience. Benchmarks technology strategies and architectures. Monitors and anticipates trends and investigates organizational objectives and needs. Prepares bench marking reports and presentations. Promotes implementation of new technology, solutions, and methods to improve business processes, efficiency, effectiveness, and value delivered to customers. Develops actual working solutions or prototypes based on their own designs and resolves any issues that arise. Stays updated on current technology trends and industry best practices. Provides technical leadership and works effectively with different teams including Product Managers, Project Managers, and Engineers. Fosters a healthy, collaborative, and productive scrum team culture. Works with other leads in a project setting to define and execute a software architecture that is sustainable, flexible, and scalable. Leads key initiative design, highly capable to complete tasks both independently with minimal guidance and leading a team technically. Exchanges information clearly and precisely, in verbal or written form, by sharing ideas, reporting facts and other information, responding to questions, and employing active listening techniques. Works with networks and understands internet security protocols. Analyze existing systems to ensure adequate security and business continuality. Routing technologies including TCP, UDP, IP, AWS VPC route tables, security groups, network ACLs. Create designs to support appropriate technology choices Create strategy for server & network technologies. Promotes and conducts software development best practices such as dependency injection and test-driven development to create high-quality, flexible, scalable applications that can be easily configured for different client needs. Assisting in the structuring of data including methods of storing and retrieving data Facilitates and creates reporting tools and automating the delivery of reports to dashboards. Creates data interfaces and facilitates API extraction of data. Design and architect Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions Guide project teams with the implementations consistent with company policies and practices Align projects with business and IT strategy to help projects sustain alignment with company policy's and standards. Write policy and standards as needed to sustain company compliance with regulatory changes. Development of product roadmaps and align efforts to meet security goals.EDUCATION Bachelor's degree in computer science or related area required. Master's preferred. Continuous learning, as defined by the Company's learning philosophy, is required. Azure or AWS Solution Architect certification or progress toward certification is highly preferred and encouraged.EXPERIENCE 7+ years' experience in the architecture, design, implementation, and maintenance of enterprise level systems in AWS. 5+ years' experience working with VMware virtual environments. 8+ years experience with administering Windows Server OS 8+ years experience with administering Active Directory, GPO, DNS 3+ years experience working with Linux servers Experience in a large complex enterprise environment, preferably in Healthcare, Insurance, or similarly government-regulated environment.QUALIFICATIONS Expert knowledge of architectural design including but not limited to AWS VPC, Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, RDS, Route53, EC2, Load Balancers, Organizations, EKS, S3, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, and other AWS serverless platforms Strong communication and written skills. Ability to work out differences of opinions and publish scalable and quality system design based on specification. Working knowledge of Microservices using Web API, Queue based processing using any messaging technologies such as AWS SQS, RabbitMQ, MSMQ etc. Ability to create reference architecture and document designs and requirements. Knowledge of Security protocols and the design, integration, and maintenance of these protocols. Ability to manage, assess and negotiate with vendors. Ability to mentor and lend guidance to team as needed. Demonstrated ability to work in teams and capture ideas into strategy and standards. Ability to execute governance of cloud standards and strategy. Ability to set strategic architectural direction. Ability to identify architecture components for reuse. A clear understanding of the architecture standards. Ability to communicate effectively with Leadership, Business Partners, and IT Infrastructure team. Knowledge of IT and IT's priorities, strategies, and current capabilities. Knowledge of technology and the current technical environment. Ability to breakdown the requirements into projects and determine timelines and dependencies with the other domains/ projects. Understanding of ongoing and planned projects and their inter-dependencies/ timelines. Strong analytical, problem solving and planning skills. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment. Flexibility to adapt readily to changing business needs. Enthusiastic, can-do attitude with the drive to learn and improve.Infrastructure: Ability to understand networks and internet security protocols. Analyze existing systems to ensure adequate security and business continuality. Knowledge of web server and application server administration and web applications deployment. Knowledge of server sizing and performance Knowledge of network design and performance Familiarity of routing technologies such as TCP, UDP, IP Knowledge of Firewalls and ACLs Knowledge of VMWare ESX and Microsoft Hypervisor Expert in Cloud Infrastructure including infrastructure as code (prefer AWS) Knowledge of patching and assessment technologies Data: Knowledge data interfaces and API extraction of data. Familiarity of data tools such as Data Bricks, PowerBI, ElasticSearch, and SAS Knowledge of relational databases such as Amazon RDS, Greenplum, Hadoop, MS SQL, Postgress, MySQL, & Oracle SQLIdentity: Ability to design and architect Identity and Access Management solutions. Knowledge of IAM tools such as ForgeRock, SailPoint, Oracle Access Manager Knowledge of privileged access management experience with tools like Delinea Secret Server Strong knowledge of modern Identity Management protocols and standards, frameworks, federation technologies and solutions (for example ADFS, SAML, MFA, LDAP, Service Principals, Azure AD)WORKING CONDITIONS:Work is performed in an office setting with no unusual hazards. The qualifications listed above are intended to represent the minimum education, experience, skills, knowledge and ability levels associated with performing the duties and responsibilities contained in this job description. Pay RangeActual compensation decision relies on the consideration of internal equity, candidate's skills and professional experience, geographic location, market and other potential factors. It is not standard practice for an offer to be at or near the top of the range, and therefore a reasonable estimate for this role is between $77,700 and $203,700.We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Diversity is valued and we will not tolerate discrimination or harassment in any form. Candidates for the position stated above are hired on an \"at will\" basis. Nothing herein is intended to create a contract.

The person in this role may work remotely or at any global Medtronic facility but will be required to work during US working hours on a frequent basis.CAREERS THAT CHANGE LIVESThis position has the responsibility for applying and coaching the use of Design | Reliability | Manufacturability (DRM) methodologies and other best practices related to SW Development Excellence across the Medtronic product development community. In this role, you will support Medtronic's Enterprise-wide SW Development Excellence strategy and tactics (including DRM) to achieve desired business results. You'll be responsible for global implementation across all locations of Product Development within Medtronic. A key focus area of this position will be to implement the DRM for Software (SW) and SW Development Excellence strategy at the Enterprise level and assure frameworks, guidance and processes are in place to enable the execution of that strategy.We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result -and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive. Our unwavering commitment to inclusion, diversity, and equity (ID&E) means zero barriers to opportunity within Medtronic and a culture where all employees belong, are respected, and feel valued for who they are and the life experiences they contribute. We know equity starts beyond our workplace, and we must play a role in addressing systemic inequities in our communications if we hope to have long-term sustainable impact.Anchored in our Mission, we continue to drive ID&E forward both to enhance the well-being of Medtronic employees and to accelerate innovation that brings our lifesaving technologies to more people in more places around the world.Bring your talents to an industry leader in medical technology and healthcare solutions - we're a market leader and growing every day. You can be proud to be a part of technologies that are rooted in our long history of mission-driven innovation. You will be empowered to shape your own career. We encourage and support your growth with the training, mentorship, and guidance you need to own your future success. Together, we can transform healthcare. Join us for a career that changes lives. Medtronic is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture.A DAY IN THE LIFE• Contribute to DRM for SW and SW Development Excellence program strategy in partnership with the R&D Council, DRM Council and associated Steering Teams to enable the assessment of progress and effectiveness of the DRM and SW Development Excellence initiative across MDT.• Implement the tactics around DRM for SW, SW Development Excellence at the enterprise level and work to assure successful integration with OU/Group level metrics across MDT.• Provide technical coaching for the application of DRM and SW Development best practices across MDT businesses, including OU coach mentoring/development• Assist in the development of and facilitation of training (including DRM) for all levels of the organization (New Employees, GBs, BBs, Management), including train-the-trainer• Assist in the development and improvements of SW specific elements of Project and Organizational Assessments.• Assist in the development and deployment of SW specific predictive outcome metrics. • Assist in the tracking and reporting of SW specific metrics both during product development and after launch (post-market) monitoring for effectiveness of the approach.ADDITIONAL ROLE SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES• Conduct and participate in SW Assessments (including DRM) across global R&D locations to enable measurement of DRM maturity growth across the business• Drive best practice sharing of SW Development methods (including DRM) across MDT businesses and functions• Facilitate application and use of SW development tools (including DRM) to make breakthrough improvements in the design, reliability and maintainability of products that include Software• Coach DRM Black Belt and Green Belt candidates towards successful applications of the methods and successful certification• Coach and mentor product development teams and individuals in the use of DRM methods & tools • Enhance the product development lifecycle within R&D by applying industry best practices, processes and metrics• Recommend improvements to work processes and procedures, design guidelines, systems models, interfaces, systems architectures, and protocols,• All activities must be performed in compliance with the Quality System• Performs duties in compliance with environmental, health and safety related site rules, policies or governmental regulations• Additional duties and responsibilities as assignedMUST HAVE (Minimum Qualifications)• Bachelor's degree• 7+ years of experience with a bachelor's degree or 5+ years of experience with an advanced degreeNICE TO HAVE (Preferred Qualifications)• Strongly Preferred: o Previous Medtronic experienceo Certified Green Belt in DRM for Software or experience teaching portions of DRM for SW curriculumo New product development experience, which includes a minimum of 2+ years of demonstrated coaching and/or teaching success• Advanced degree in a software related discipline• Past engineering experience in medical device product development in a variety of applications of SW (embedded, cloud-based applications, standalone SW applications, etc)• Familiarity with FDA and ISO standards around SW including cybersecurity• Recognition as a Subject Matter Expert in the field of SW Development• Black Belt or Master Black Belt - Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) / DRM with SW focus• Demonstrated experience working in a Research and Development organization as a change agent implementing DRM / DFSS methods and strategies resulting in sustained change• Experience in the application of analytical / statistical methods for improvements in product performance• Experience and ability to train, lead, mentor, coach and inspire individuals and teams to significantly impact the business• Excellent oral and written skills with the ability to interface at all levels in the organization.• Ability to work with others and accomplish goals working within a team• Ability to manage multiple priorities• Experience as a creative problem solver• Comfort in dealing with ambiguity• Confidence in applying engineering experience to make pragmatic choices about Software/Firmware design, architecture, and implementationABOUT MEDTRONICTogether, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services 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 want to 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.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. Learn more about our benefits at http://benefits.medtronic.com.The provided base salary range is used nationally (except in certain CA locations). The rate offered is compliant with federal/local regulations and may vary by experience, certification/education, market conditions, location, etc.PHYSICAL JOB REQUIREMENTSThe 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. (ADA-United States of America).EEO STATEMENTIt is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.DISCLAIMERThe above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position.

DESCRIPTIONAWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help. You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.We are looking for a senior software development engineer to join our team and help us build the next generation of the AWS Direct Connect service. This position will be responsible for designing, developing, and supporting features within the AWS Direct Connect service.First, a bit of background:Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a broad set of global compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and networking services that help organizations move faster, lower IT costs, and scale applications. Our services are trusted by the largest enterprises and the hottest startups to power a wide variety of workloads.The AWS Direct Connect software engineering team invent solutions makes it easy for customers to establish a dedicated network connection from their premises to the AWS cloud. These connections help to reduce network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections. AWS Direct Connect is currently available in more than 91 locations located in 28 countries.The opportunity:The AWS Direct Connect team is looking for technical experts who can help us build large scale distributed systems to meet our customers' demands. You will be designing, implementing, and operating features to put features into customers’ hands quickly.AWS in general and this business, in particular, operates at very large scale and on critical workloads, so a passion for operational excellence is essential. Candidates must be comfortable working within a fast-moving startup environment and be eager to embrace ownership and accountability.Amazon has a fast-paced environment where we “Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History.” On a “typical” day, software engineers might whip up a prototype to prove or disprove an idea, instrument code to report a new metric, talk with customers, code up a feature, or draft a proposal for a radical new idea.For detailed info regarding Direct Connect visit: http://aws.amazon.com/directconnectFor more information on Amazon Web Services please visit: http://aws.amazon.com/Inclusive Team CultureHere at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.Key job responsibilities• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and build innovative products and services in a large distributed computing environment,. • Influence our product direction through significant development contributions and technical leadership • Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed. • Build distributed systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use. • Ability to design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems. • Define and achieve performance metrics, and instill the operational practices needed to sustain them • On-call rotation to support the services owned by the Software team • Mentor your teammates, helping them grow and develop their technical/functional skills.About the teamThe AWS DX Metrics and Monitoring (M&M) team is chartered with delivering and building resilient software systems across two verticals, DX network monitoring and providing metrics for DX resources. We provide an active monitoring solution for all DX data plane features to detect and indicate signals towards internal / external customer systems to allow for visibility of the DX network state and mitigation of network unavailability globally. Additionally, the team collects and streams metrics from the DX resources and publishes these for consumption by customers through CloudWatch.About AWSDiverse ExperiencesAWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS?Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.Inclusive Team CultureHere at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.Mentorship & Career GrowthWe’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life BalanceWe value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Arlington, VA, USA | Minneapolis, MN, USABASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering teamPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalentAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

DESCRIPTIONAWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.We are looking for software development engineers who has outstanding programming skills to join our team and help us build the next generation of the AWS Direct Connect service. This position will be responsible for designing, developing, and supporting features within the AWS Direct Connect service.First, a bit of background:Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a broad set of global compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and networking services that help organizations move faster, lower IT costs, and scale applications. Our services are trusted by the largest enterprises and the hottest startups to power a wide variety of workloads.The AWS Direct Connect software engineering team invents solutions makes it easy for customers to establish a dedicated network connection from their premises to the AWS cloud. These connections help to reduce network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections. AWS Direct Connect is currently available in more than 91 locations located in 28 countries.The opportunity:The AWS Direct Connect team is looking for technical experts who can help us build large scale distributed systems to meet our customers' demands. You will be designing, implementing, and operating features to put features into customers’ hands quickly.AWS in general and this business, in particular, operates at very large scale and on critical workloads, so a passion for operational excellence is essential. Candidates must be comfortable working within a fast-moving startup environment and be eager to embrace ownership and accountability.Key job responsibilitiesDesign, implement, test and operationalize large technical initiatives and features for our service.Influence our product direction through significant development contributions and technical leadership.Define and achieve performance metrics, and instill the operational practices needed to sustain them.Mentor your teammates, helping them grow and develop their technical skills.About the teamThe AWS Direct Connect Metering and Monitoring (M&M) team is chartered with building network monitoring for Direct Connect customers and internal teams in order to give visibility to DX network state and mitigate network availability risks and events. Additionally, we also own metering of data consumption for billing and analytics.We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Arlington, VA, USA | Herndon, VA, USA | Minneapolis, MN, USABASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience- Experience programming with at least one software programming languagePREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of full stack development experience- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalentAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.