IT DevOps Engineer
San Jose, CA, United States
About Zscaler
Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company’s cloud-native platform that protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.
With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler serves thousands of enterprise customers around the world, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations. In addition to protecting customers from damaging threats, such as ransomware and data exfiltration, it helps them slash costs, reduce complexity, and improve the user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-creating gateway appliances.
Zscaler was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. Zscaler’s purpose-built security platform puts a company’s defenses and controls where the connections occur—the internet—so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.
Position: IT DevOps Engineer
Location: Remote within United States
NOTE: U.S. Citizenship is required for this position due to the nature of customers assigned to this role.
The Team:
The IT Cloud Operations team is the go team for Cloud based projects and applications. We work in parallel with various Engineering organizations, Security, Marketing, and others on providing devops solutions such as: deploying and maintaining managed & in-house applications, CI/CD and other Development cycle tools, metrics & reporting and integration with various vendors and security products including Zscaler.
The Role:
The IT Cloud Operations team has a need for a self-driven and seasoned engineer that is versatile, ready to learn on the go, proven collaborator, and a cloud platforms guru. You’ll be working on major projects to deploy applications on cloud platforms using Devops philosophies and strategies. The Devops engineer will influence the rest of the IT organization & Engineering teams with Devops practices and solutions.
Responsibilities/What You’ll Do:
The IT infrastructure Devops Engineer will contribute to the IT Cloud Operations team on developing and maintaining Cloud Platform infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IAC) across three major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and GCP), develop and support CICD platforms, monitoring & reporting tools.
There is a mix of projects where collaboration and individual ownership is required. Some include:
Application migrations, Cloud Platform Architecture and Solutions, integration with various Security tools, FinOps, cloud posture and compliance, building an automated Environment deployment system.
Develop and maintain Infrastructure as code (IAC) for deploying infrastructure on AWS, GCP and Azure
Develop, maintain and strategize CICD solutions on CICD platforms such as ArgoCD, Jenkins, Bamboo
Develop and deploy application tooling: logging, monitoring and reporting tools such as: Prometheus, Grafana, Cloudwatch, Logstash etc.
Maintaining and monitoring containerized applications on Kubernetes
Cloud platforms champion: become a resource for multiple organizations on helping define architecture, strategies
Supporting FinOps team: this is a key role for supporting FinOps team on strategies for management and right sizing
Support, and maintain Zscaler Products on the cloud such as: branch connector, appconnector, ZPA, Cloud Posture Control
Work with internal Security team to develop and maintain security best practices
Deploy Infrastructure that meets compliance such as CIS, STIG etc.
Support FedRamp applications
Qualifications/Your Background:
5+ experience with Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, & GCP
5+ years of experience with open source projects and code, such as linux and unix operating systems, Bash, python, Go
3+ years of experience on CICD platforms such as ArgoCD, Jenkins, github actions etc.
3+ years of experience on Kubernetes platforms
FedRamp ready: US citizenship required
Automation evangelist
Strong communication skills and a team player comfortable interacting with various internal and external groups.
Desired Skills:
Experience with ArgoCD, ArgoWorkflow
Experience with Atlassian products such as Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence and Bamboo
Experience in SRE environments, where you will be responsible for the overall health of various applications
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Base Pay Range $115,000—$135,000 USD By applying for this role, you adhere to applicable laws, regulations, and Zscaler policies, including those related to security and privacy standards and guidelines.
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