Senior Director of Engineering

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.

ZScaler is expanding the business into the US federal space and regulated industries. We are looking for a senior engineering leader with a strong platform engineering background. In this role you will build a unified zero-trust CI/CD platform that delivers the entire portfolio of Zscaler services to commercial, federal and sovereign environments. This is an opportunity to fundamentally transform how Zscaler delivers and operates services.  

You will partner with engineering, operations, product, sales, support, security and compliance organizations and have a direct impact on the company top and bottom lines. You will architect and deliver cloud build-out automation for Zscaler to run unattended and be operated by the 3rd party at arm's length. Through collaboration with compliance and security organizations you will harden artifact delivery pipeline from source control submission to deployment, ensuring Zscaler binaries meet stringent requirements. Through partnership with engineering organizations you will enable rapid pace of innovation using the latest and greatest technology DevSecOps has to offer. You will be able to redefine roles and responsibilities of various functions within engineering organizations and enable people to focus on what they do best - use their creativity and passion to address tough industry challenges, while automation and AI do the rest in the background.

The success of your work will determine the growth trajectory of Zscaler business in federal and sovereign markets. Your work is mission critical for Zscaler and offers tremendous growth opportunities. 

Job Description

• Hire top engineering talent from the industry and grow a platform engineering organization at Zscaler
• Formulate a cohesive strategy for deployment and operation of microservices, databases, UI, virtualization, SDKs, end-points and drive execution.
• Evaluate and acquire or build internally tools and components that offer secure, robust development, testing, monitoring and operational experience
• Elevate security posture of CI and CD systems, harden change management and flight control process through automation.
• Partner with engineering, operations, SRE, security organizations and influence roadmap, backlog and priorities to meet the needs of the federal line of business.
• Define and enforce DevOps standards, best practices and procedures across engineering organization
• Ensure compliance with federal guidelines and regulations from feature design to delivery
• Automate build-out of new Zscaler clouds from infrastructure to services
• Measure engineering and ops productivity and drive improvement

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor of Computer Science, Engineering, IT or equivalent 
• 10+ years of commercial services development experience
• Strong service ownership mentality
• 2+ years of building and running services on public cloud (either of AWS, Azure)
• Expertise in designing, building, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Familiarity with managed languages (Java, Go, Python) and development frameworks and tools
• 2+ years of experience with IaC (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, etc.)
• 5+ years of experience with Linux/BSD and open source software
• Experience leading organizations of 30+ engineers and being at least a manager of managers.
• Management of complex cross-organizational/cross-functional projects of 10+ people, lasting 6+ months.
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• US resident

Preferred Qualifications

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