Staff DevOps Engineer - Production Engineering

Company Description

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.

Job Description

We are currently seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to join our Emerging Technologies infrastructure team.  In this role you will be supporting our (ZPA) products.  This position will give you the opportunity to challenge yourself as we rapidly scale our business and grow our global platform across over 150 data centers around the world.

• Operational duties for our cloud based products - deployments, on-call, incident management.
• Design and deploy various platform related systems - data stores, monitoring tools, event streaming platforms, etc. 
• Management of container-based architecture (AWS ECS and Kubernetes). 
• Create and deploy scalable monitoring systems. 
• Architect and implement various cloud management automations. 
• Contribute to OS and software packaging and distribution. 
• Write and maintain Ops documentation. 
• Resolve escalations and help prevent reiteration of incidents with process, monitoring and reliability improvements. 
• Contribute and implement DevOps best practices within the group. 
• Work as a member of a cross-functional project team contributing to the technology-based solutions and consult on concept feasibility.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience preferably in an Operations environment
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with Linux administration and basic network troubleshooting
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code and automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, ...)
• Knowledge of Virtualization, Cloud Architecture and Services, Automated Deployments
• Strong understanding of web security and protocols HTTP, SSL/TLS, DNS, SQL and networking fundamentals

Additional Information

The base salary range for this full-time position is $170,000 to $200,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.

Zscaler’s salary ranges are benchmarked and are determined by role and level. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations and could be higher or lower based on a multitude of factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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What You Can Expect From Us:

• An environment where you will be working on cutting edge technologies and architectures
• A fun, passionate and collaborative workplace
• Competitive salary and benefits, including equity

Why Zscaler?

People who excel at Zscaler are smart, motivated and share our values. Ask yourself: Do you want to team with the best talent in the industry? Do you want to work on disruptive technology? Do you thrive in a fluid work environment? Do you appreciate a company culture that enables individual and group success and celebrates achievement? If you said yes, we’d love to talk to you about joining our award-winning team. 

Additional information about Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS ) is available at https://www.zscaler.com. 

Zscaler is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all of our employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy or related medical conditions), age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic inf