Senior Technical Project Manager - DevOps

Career-defining. Life-changing. 

At iRhythm, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your skills and your career while impacting the lives of people around the world. iRhythm is shaping a future where everyone, everywhere can access the best possible cardiac health solutions. Every day, we collaborate, create, and constantly reimagine what’s possible. We think big and move fast, driven by our commitment to put patients first and improve lives. We need builders like you. Curious and innovative problem solvers looking for the chance to meaningfully shape the future of cardiac health, our company, and your career

About This Role:

iRhythm is currently seeking an experienced Senior Technical Project Manager within the Research & Development team. You will have the opportunity to drive the delivery of medical device projects to domestic and international markets. You will be exposed to a diverse set of projects involving development and testing in the context of addressing unmet clinical needs. In addition, you will build a deep understanding of our end-to-end systems, helping to drive successful delivery of projects throughout the development life cycle.

Our work environment is fast-paced, with a collaborative atmosphere. Most of all, we are passionate about delivering innovations that improve the quality of health care and the patient experience. We are looking for like-minded individuals to join our team today!

The Technical Project Manager – DevOps leads complex initiatives that improve software delivery, cloud infrastructure, automation, reliability, and operational efficiency. This role partners closely with DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Software Engineering, Security, QA, IT, and Product teams to plan and execute technical initiatives from strategy through implementation.

The Technical Project Manager is responsible for driving delivery across multiple technical workstreams, managing dependencies and risks, establishing execution plans, and providing visibility to technical and executive stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

DevOps Program & Project Leadership

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex DevOps and cloud infrastructure initiatives.
• Develop project plans, milestones, schedules, dependencies, and execution strategies.
• Coordinate multiple engineering teams and technical workstreams to achieve delivery objectives.
• Drive execution against committed timelines and proactively address delivery risks.
• Facilitate technical planning, execution reviews, status meetings, and leadership escalations.

CI/CD & Software Delivery

• Partner with DevOps and engineering teams to improve CI/CD pipelines and software delivery processes.
• Coordinate initiatives involving build, integration, automated testing, deployment, and release automation.
• Track implementation of deployment strategies, environment management, and automated release processes.
• Identify bottlenecks in the software delivery lifecycle and coordinate improvement initiatives.
• Support adoption of standardized development and deployment practices across engineering teams.

Cloud & Infrastructure Delivery

• Coordinate projects involving cloud infrastructure, platforms, environments, networking, compute, storage, and supporting services.
• Partner with cloud and infrastructure engineers to manage technical dependencies and implementation plans.
• Coordinate cloud migrations, infrastructure modernization, platform upgrades, and environment improvements.
• Track infrastructure readiness and dependencies required to support application releases.

Automation & Platform Engineering

• Lead initiatives to improve infrastructure and deployment automation.
• Coordinate adoption of Infrastructure as Code and configuration-management practices.
• Support implementation of standardized DevOps tooling and engineering platforms.
• Drive initiatives that improve scalability, reliability, deployment frequency, and operational efficiency.

Security & Compliance

• Coordinate DevSecOps initiatives with Security, Engineering, and Infrastructure teams.
• Ensure security requirements and controls are incorporated into technical delivery plans.
• Track vulnerability remediation, security dependencies, and required technical approvals.
• Coordinate security testing and compliance activities associated with DevOps initiatives.

Cross-Functional Technical Leadership

• Serve as the primary project-management interface between DevOps and partner organizations.
• Coordinate across Software Engineering, Firmware, QA, Security, Product, IT, Operations, and Architecture teams.
• Manage technical dependencies and ensure teams understand ownership and delivery commitments.
• Facilitate technical decisions and escalate issues requiring leadership intervention.
• Translate complex technical information into clear project status and executive-level communication.

Risk, Issue & Dependency Management

• Maintain integrated project risk, issue, action, and dependency tracking.
• Identify technical and operational risks early and develop mitigation strategies.
• Manage cross-team dependencies that could affect delivery schedules.
• Drive resolution of blockers and escalate critical issues appropriately.

Metrics & Executive Reporting

• Develop project dashboards and executive reporting for DevOps initiatives.
• Track milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, delivery performance, and technical readiness.
• Establish metrics for delivery predictability, deployment performance, automation, and operational improvements.
• Provide leadership with clear visibility into project health and areas requiring intervention.

Continuous Improvement

• Facilitate retrospectives and post-implementation reviews.
• Identify opportunities to improve engineering and DevOps processes.
• Drive standardization across project execution and technical delivery practices.
• Support continuous improvement of development, deployment, and operational processes.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
• 5+ years of technical project or program management experience and 8+ years of professional experience (engineering, project management, or similar roles)
• Experience working directly with DevOps, Cloud, Infrastructure, or Software Engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of software development and deployment lifecycles.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD concepts and DevOps practices.
• Experience managing complex technical dependencies and cross-functional engineering teams.
• Strong project planning, risk management, and delivery-execution skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum or hybrid development methodologies.
• Experience with tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab, Confluence, or similar platforms.

Preferred Technical Experience

• Cloud platforms: Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud
• CI/CD: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, ARM/Bicep, CloudFormation
• Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
• Source control: Git/GitHub/GitLab
• Monitoring/observability: Azure Monitor, Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana
• Security: DevSecOps, vulnerability management, SAST/DAST, security scanning
• Agile delivery and Scrum
• Cloud migration and infrastructure modernization

Location:

Actual compensation may vary depending on job-related factors including knowledge, skills, experience, and work location.

Estimated Pay Range

As a part of our core values, we ensure an inclusive workforce. We welcome and celebrate people of all backgrounds, experiences, skills, and perspectives. iRhythm Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We will consider for employment all qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with all applicable laws.

iRhythm provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in job application procedures, including those who may have any difficulty using our online system. If you need such an accommodation, you may contact us at [email protected]

About iRhythm Technologies
iRhythm is a leading digital healthcare company that creates trusted solutions that detect, predict, and prevent disease. Combining wearable biosensors and cloud-based data analytics with powerful proprietary algorithms, iRhythm distills data from millions of heartbeats into clinically actionable information. Through a relentless focus on patient care, iRhythm’s vision is to deliver better data, better insights, and better health for all.

Make iRhythm your path forward. Zio, the heart monitor that changed the game.

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