Release Engineer - 6- Month Contract

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.

Medtronic - Digital Technologies is creating ambitious new products that bring connectivity, real-time guidance, and decision support to the operating room. To support this mission, we are developing compact, high-performance, and embedded systems that enable edge computing and connectivity. Working closely with other teams across Medtronic, we are creating a connected ecosystem and leveraging the state of the art in computer vision to provide the most comprehensive view of surgery. If you’re interested in using cutting-edge technology to improve the standard of care in surgery on a global scale, this could be the place for you.

As a Release Engineer, you will play a critical role in driving release deliverables, automating processes, and ensuring documentation and artifacts are prepared ahead of releases. You will be responsible for maintaining the pace of delivery, optimizing workflows, and supporting release activities with a hands-on approach. This role is ideal for someone with a software background who thrives in execution, process improvement, and scripting.

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

• Release Deliverables Ownership
  • Drive release deliverables with relevant owners and ensure deadlines are met.
  • Maintain pace and momentum across all release activities.
• Process Automation
  • Reduce the time required to generate release artifacts by developing and implementing automation scripts and workflows.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including QA, DevOps, and Product, to ensure smooth and efficient releases.
• Release Preparation
  • Prepare release deliverables ahead of time by reviewing change requests and ensuring that all approvals are secured for release.
  • Ensure all necessary documentation is complete, accurate, and compliant with regulatory standards.
• Execution During Releases
  • Manage release execution tasks, including uploading deliverables, updating documents, linking to Bill of Materials (BOM), and ensuring compliance with established processes.
• Documentation and Process Improvement
  • Streamline release workflows by improving documentation standards and identifying opportunities for process optimization.
  • Foster collaboration across QA, DevOps, and Product teams to ensure alignment on release goals and timelines.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• 3–7 years of experience in software development, release management, or related fields, with a focus on scripting, automation, and process optimization.
• Experience in software development or scripting, with proficiency in languages like Python, Bash, or similar.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.
• Strong attention to detail and a passion for maintaining accurate documentation and improving workflows.
• Proven experience managing release deliverables, including preparing and executing releases, linking to BOMs, and ensuring compliance with established processes.
• Familiarity with managing change requests and securing approvals for releases in a structured environment.
• Ability to identify inefficiencies and implement automation solutions to improve productivity and reduce manual effort.

The ideal candidate has experience working in resource-constrained compute environments and regulated domains, particularly in medical device software development or other highly regulated industries. They are proficient with project and release management tools such as JIRA, Git, or similar platforms, and are familiar with Agile methodologies and best practices for collaborative, iterative development.

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.

Pay range: United Kingdom: 76,800.00 GBP - 115,200.00 GBP. 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.

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world.
• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities.
• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning.

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

• Experiences that put people first. Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.
• Life-transforming technologies. No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.
• Better outcomes for our world. Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.
• Insight-driven care. Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care.

It 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.

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

This employer participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees.

If you need assistance completing your application please email AskHR@medtronic.com.