Senior DevOps & Release Engineer
Zimmer Biomet · Salt Lake City, UT
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Jul 15, 2026
Salt Lake City, UT
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on building and maintaining DevOps infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and release processes for Linux-based medical software used in surgical settings. The position carries technical authority over the full software build, packaging, deployment, and compliance lifecycle within a regulated medical device context, requiring familiarity with standards such as IEC 62304 and ISO 13485. It suits an experienced DevOps or platform engineer with a background in regulated industries and hands-on CI/CD tooling.
Senior level · 6+ years · Salt Lake City, UT · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 350 people in the Salt Lake City, UT area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 260–540
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $132,450 (middle half $104,815–$164,275).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
This role sits at the boundary between Software Developer (15-1252) and Systems Administrator (15-1244). The JD emphasizes designing and building CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and automation tooling — work that ships code — which tips the classification toward 15-1252, though the strong operational/compliance focus adds genuine ambiguity.
Jenkins and TeamCity are listed together as interchangeable CI platform options under 'Your Background'; they are captured as a single skill with TeamCity as an alternative.
AWS and Azure are listed together as a cloud ecosystem requirement; AWS is the primary with Azure as an alternative.
Terraform and CloudFormation are listed as interchangeable IaC options; Terraform is the primary with CloudFormation as an alternative.
Qt, IEC 62304, ISO 13485, and ISO 14971 all appear under the 'What Makes You Stand Out' (preferred) section and are marked accordingly.
C++ and Python appear under 'Your Background' (required) but are listed as experience items supporting GPU-enabled and native application build environments — they are retained as hard gates given their placement in the required section.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
The role is onsite in Salt Lake City, UT; some travel within the USA and to France is noted.
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