Sr. Release Engineer II
About The Position
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: Senior / Senior II DevOps Engineer — Environment Platform About the Role We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to help scale and improve our environment creation and management platform. Today, we operate multiple long-lived environments backed by AWS EC2, Kubernetes, GitOps (Argo CD), and Terraform-based infrastructure. As our platform has grown, environment provisioning and configuration management have become a major source of operational backlog and toil. Modernizing the R&D Platform using Kubernetes and various CNCF (or CNCF-type) projects are a requirement. Occasional weekend work may be required, as will late deployments. This role is focused on: Reducing environment-related backlog Standardizing how environments are created and managed Improving and untangling legacy Terraform + embedded application configuration Driving automation and platform improvements that eliminate repetitive work You will work closely with engineering teams to improve reliability, speed, and consistency across environments.
Requirements
- 8+ years of Software or DevOps Engineering experience, with at least 2 years in relevant (healthcare / medtech) industry experience
- Terraform or Ansible (required)
- Real-world experience working in complex or legacy IaC codebases
- Kubernetes (required)
- Strong understanding of deployments, services, config, and troubleshooting
- Helm (required)
- Experience managing environment-specific values and deployments
- Argo CD (required)
- GitOps workflows, sync/health, debugging drift
- Docker (required)
- GitLab + CI/CD (required)
- Linux fundamentals (required)
- Strong attention to detail in infrastructure and config changes
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent requests and priorities
- Solid understanding of software delivery processes and environment lifecycle
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills
Nice To Haves
- Experience decoupling infra and app configuration
- Experience reducing ticket-driven operational toil
- Crossplane (infrastructure abstraction / platform direction)
- Kyverno (policy-as-code)
- Cilium / Tetragon (network/security observability)
- Backstage or developer portals (self-service platforms)
Responsibilities
- Create, modify, and support non-production and production-like environments
- Troubleshoot and resolve environment issues (infra, config, deployment)
- Improve reliability and consistency across environments
- Process and prioritize environment-related requests across multiple teams
- Identify patterns in repeated requests and eliminate them through automation
- Replace manual workflows with tooling, templates, and standardized approaches
- Work within and improve existing Terraform (legacy + coupled) codebases
- Help separate infrastructure provisioning from application configuration
- Improve reuse, modularity, and safety of infrastructure code
- Be part of an on-call rotation using Pager Duty.
- Deploy and manage applications in Kubernetes environments
- Operate and improve Argo CD-based GitOps workflows
- Manage Helm-based deployments and configuration patterns
- Improve CI/CD pipelines in GitLab to reduce environment-specific drift
- Build scripts/tools to automate repetitive tasks and operations
- Improve determinism and repeatability of environment creation
Benefits
- Actual compensation may vary depending on job-related factors including knowledge, skills, experience, and work location.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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