Senior Release Engineer

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 - Senior Release Engineer 

Location - Remote within United States

Responsibilities/What You’ll Do:

• Implementing and managing the release process from development to testing then finally to the production environments.
• Automating tasks across the release process in terms of security, traceability, flow and quality gates to ensure highest industry standards, reducing human intervention.
• Work with the platform/devops team to build the right infrastructure to handle consistent, on-time delivery of high quality releases. 
• Scheduling, managing and coordinating releases across multiple components across different teams and projects.
• Managing risks and resolving challenges that impact release scope, quality, and schedules 
• Continuously monitor releases and provide reports about their progress and stage to stakeholders while ensuring the proper quality standards are met
• Ensuring all team members and release stakeholders are adhering to engineering best practices and release validation processes to ensure best release quality 
• Making improvements on a regular basis to the release process based on continuous monitoring and feedback from stakeholders
• Focused on the bigger picture and views the software development and release processes in relation to the overall business objectives
• Conducting release readiness and validating release manifests
• Leading and coordinating checklist and deployment plan execution

Qualifications/Your Background:

• 6+ years of experience in IT/Computer science with a minimum of 5 years in release engineering or release management or automation engineering related positions
• Experience working with Jenkins, and GIT.
• Experience in building docker images and build configuration
• Proficiency building and maintaining pipelines.
• Worked with Jira
• Python, Groovy and/or Bash scripting skills
• Kubernetes
• At least 3 years of experience working for a SaaS/cloud company with an agile delivery model
• Advanced Knowledge of the SDLC

Nice to haves:

• Experience in working with continuous integration/delivery tools and frameworks ) is a plus (e.g Ansible, ArgoCD etc.)
• Experience in building golang, nodejs, rust application
• Basic Experience with Monitoring or Application Logging tools
• Basic Understanding of Test Automation tools

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The base salary range listed for this full-time position excludes commission/ bonus/ equity (if applicable) + benefits.

Base Pay Range$136,000—$160,000 USD

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