Sr Principal Systems Administrator ​/ Architect: Polarion

A Day in the Life

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In this role, you would serve as the technical lead for Polarion and related engineering systems, supporting both the setup and ongoing maintenance of on-prem or AWS-hosted environments. You would partner with internal stakeholders and external vendors to design, implement, and integrate solutions, while also handling basic scripting, infrastructure support, and troubleshooting to keep the platform running smoothly. You would also help drive tool consolidation, support implementation efforts, and ensure engineering teams have the systems, documentation, and technical support they need to work efficiently.

• Installs, operates, manages, and maintains hardware and/or software, including administrator and service accounts, maintenance of system documentation, tuning system performance, backup/recovery, and other planned configuration changes.
• Interacts with users and other stakeholders to plan and implement changes and deliver support across all R&D teams.
• Contributes to evaluation and recommendations for vendor products, manages and monitors policies and standards for the use of computing resources, and executes on programs and projects within a specific IT function.
• Administration of Server, Polarion, Infrastructure, Workflows, AWS and Dev Ops, Project Management

Requires a technical Baccalaureate degree and minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.

• Deep experience with Polarion or a comparable ALM platform, including basic scripting/customization
• Ability to set up, maintain, and support on-prem or AWS-hosted server environments
• Strong background building and supporting engineering systems infrastructure
• Proven vendor management and third-party implementation leadership
• Medtronic systems validation or other regulated validation experience
• Background in medical device, healthcare technology, or similarly regulated environments
• Knowledge of requirements management and testing workflows
• Experience with vendor selection, contract coordination, and implementation oversight

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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.

The 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.

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