[Hiring] Senior Director, Global Infrastructure Technology & Operations @iRhythm Technologies, Inc.

Role Description

The Senior Director, Global Infrastructure Technology & Operations will lead iRhythm’s enterprise infrastructure strategy, architecture, operations, and modernization across cloud, networking, data center and hardware, end-user computing, and security infrastructure. This role will ensure that iRhythm’s technology foundation is resilient, secure, compliant, and scalable enough to support 24/7 clinical operations, manufacturing, global commercial growth, and the company’s expanding data and AI capabilities.

This senior leadership role combines:

• Executive leadership
• Hands-on technical depth
• Organizational development
• Financial stewardship
• Close partnership with the Chief Data Officer and head of IT, CISO, Quality/Regulatory, Engineering, and business leaders

The role works hand in hand with the CISO: Security defines the requirements and provides oversight, while Infrastructure delivers and operates the platforms, controls, and services that enable the business.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive experience in enterprise infrastructure, including 7+ years leading multi-disciplinary infrastructure teams at the director level or above.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven strength in ability to balance strategic vision with execution excellence.
• Deep hands-on and architectural expertise in at least one major cloud platform, preferably AWS and/or GCP.
• Strong background in enterprise networking and hands-on experience engineering and operating security infrastructure.
• Proven experience operating infrastructure in a regulated industry such as medical devices, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, or financial services.
• Working knowledge of FDA regulations, including 21 CFR Part 11 and 21 CFR Part 820.
• Track record of leading large-scale transformation programs.
• Experience owning budgets of meaningful scale and managing strategic technology, cloud, telecom, and managed service vendors.
• Excellent executive communication and influencing skills.

Requirements

• Define and execute a multi-year enterprise infrastructure strategy and roadmap aligned to iRhythm’s business, clinical, data, and AI objectives.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing infrastructure organization across cloud, network, operations, end-user services, and managed service partners.
• Establish infrastructure architecture standards, reference patterns, governance, and operating models across business units and geographies.
• Serve as the senior infrastructure advisor to executive leadership.
• Own the enterprise multi-cloud strategy across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Microsoft 365.
• Lead cloud platform engineering using Infrastructure as Code, automation, infrastructure CI/CD, and policy-as-code.
• Drive FinOps practices, including cost visibility, optimization, reserved-capacity strategy, and chargeback/showback.
• Enable modern data and AI platforms with secure, scalable, well-governed infrastructure.
• Lead workload migration and modernization from on-premises environments to cloud.
• Own enterprise network architecture across corporate offices, clinical and IDTF sites, manufacturing facilities, data centers, and cloud environments.
• Design secure hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity.
• Implement network segmentation and isolation for manufacturing/OT and clinical environments.
• Ensure high availability, performance monitoring, and capacity planning for mission-critical clinical and patient-facing services.
• Oversee on-premises and colocation data centers, compute, storage, backup, and virtualization platforms.
• Own the hardware asset lifecycle.
• Lead end-user computing across endpoints, MDM, collaboration tools, service desk, and conference room technology.
• Implement, operate, and maintain infrastructure security controls.
• Own the day-to-day engineering and operation of network and platform security technologies.
• Embed security by design across infrastructure.
• Own timely vulnerability remediation and patching across infrastructure assets.
• Operate identity and directory infrastructure.
• Partner with the CISO’s organization during security incidents.
• Ensure infrastructure meets applicable regulatory and compliance obligations.
• Partner with the CISO, Quality, and Regulatory teams to maintain infrastructure controls.
• Support computer system validation (CSV/CSA) for GxP-relevant infrastructure.
• Lead infrastructure responses during internal, customer, and regulatory audits.
• Own business continuity and disaster recovery for infrastructure.
• Build observability, monitoring, and alerting practices.
• Mature ITSM processes for incident, problem, change, and configuration management.
• Drive automation to reduce toil and improve reliability.
• Own the infrastructure budget across OpEx and CapEx.
• Manage strategic vendor, cloud provider, telecom, and managed service relationships.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and make build, buy, or partner recommendations.

Benefits

• Actual compensation may vary depending on job-related factors including knowledge, skills, experience, and work location.
• Estimated Pay Range: $222,000.00 - $288,000.00.