Senior DevOps & Release Engineer

About the role

Zimmer Biomet is seeking a Senior DevOps & Release Engineer to join our multidisciplinary engineering organization. This role supports the delivery of regulated Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) solutions, collaborating with various teams including Software Engineering, Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, Security, IT, Product, and Research.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain secure and reproducible DevOps infrastructure supporting Linux-based medical software platforms.
• Own the end-to-end software build, packaging, release, deployment, and operational lifecycle while ensuring compliance with FDA, ISO 13485, IEC 62304, and ISO 14971 expectations.
• Contribute to operational excellence by implementing scalable automation, secure deployment mechanisms, validated CI/CD systems, and traceable release processes suitable for regulated environments and audit readiness.
• Support Linux-based deployment environments, ensuring reliability, reproducibility, and operational consistency across development, validation, testing, and production systems.
• Align operational practices with risk management and post-market surveillance activities.
• Build, Packaging & Release Engineering: Own software build, packaging, release, rollback, and patch management processes, support controlled software release strategies consistent with regulated medical environments.
• CI/CD & Automation: Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting regulated software development workflows, administer and optimize tooling including GitHub, Jenkins, TeamCity, or equivalent systems, automate build generation, testing, static analysis, packaging, and artifact management, ensure CI/CD outputs are auditable and suitable as objective evidence during inspections and audits.
• Validation, Security & Compliance: Ensure infrastructure and DevOps practices comply with the field norms such as IEC 62304, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, and FDA cybersecurity guidance, implement defense-in-depth security controls across build systems, deployment pipelines, and operational environments, enforce least-privilege access, authentication controls, secure secrets management, and audit logging, support internal audits, FDA inspections, and ISO certification activities through proper documentation and evidence generation.
• ML/AI Operational Support: Support lifecycle management of ML/AI inference components within regulated environments, ensure model versioning, traceability, controlled promotion, and alignment with released software versions, maintain reproducible ML build environments and containerized workflows where appropriate.
• Maintain monitoring, logging, and operational observability for on-premise clinical systems and development environments, support incident response, root cause investigations, CAPAs, and continuous improvement initiatives, maintain operational records and deployment logs supporting audit and compliance requirements.
• Leadership & Collaboration: Act as the primary technical authority for DevOps and release engineering practices, mentor junior DevOps and platform engineers, translate regulatory and quality requirements into practical, scalable technical implementations, maintain clear operational documentation, deployment procedures, rollback guides, and technical runbooks.

Qualifications

• Experience with QT-based applications.
• Experience in scripting languages.
• Familiarity with IEC 62304, ISO 13485, and ISO 14971 standards.
• Prior experience supporting Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) products.
• Experience with ML/AI deployment workflows in regulated environments.
• Experience designing DevOps systems intended for regulatory evidence and audit readiness.

What You Can Expect

At Zimmer Biomet, you will share in our commitment to providing mobility and renewed life to people around the world. We offer development opportunities, robust employee resource groups (ERGs), a flexible working environment, location-specific competitive total rewards, wellness incentives, and a culture of recognition and performance awards.

How You'll Create Impact

In this role, you will design, implement, and maintain secure and reproducible DevOps infrastructure supporting Linux-based medical software platforms. You will own the end-to-end software build, packaging, release, deployment, and operational lifecycle while ensuring compliance with FDA, ISO 13485, IEC 62304, and ISO 14971 expectations. You will contribute to operational excellence by implementing scalable automation, secure deployment mechanisms, validated CI/CD systems, and traceable release processes suitable for regulated environments and audit readiness.

Your Background

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Release Engineering, or Platform Engineering.
• Strong experience with Linux systems, preferably Debian-based environments.
• Strong understanding of system security, networking, deployment architectures, and operational best practices.
• Hands-on experience with Jenkins, TeamCity, or similar CI platforms.
• Experience with AWS and Azure cloud ecosystems.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience supporting GPU-enabled systems and native application build environments.
• Experience in C++, Python.