Sr. Staff DevOps 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.

Job Description

The Sr. Staff DevOps Engineer will be primarily responsible to design, develop and maintain Virtual appliance application and Infrastructure.

Develop and integrate automation scripts to our CI-CD pipeline and handle OPS responsibilities of engineering development cloud infrastructure.

Build and create updated Linux and FreeBSD tools packages and qualify this for field deployment.

The Engineering team develops innovative solutions that are transforming the internet security business, and millions of users rely on our service for data protection and comprehensive security.

We also provide real-time analytics to our customers for unmatched visibility and maintain a state-of-the-art NOC. The development team works on web filtering, policy enforcement, next-gen firewall, sandboxing, DLP, and mobile user solutions.

Being responsive to our customers and delivering industry-leading mission-critical solutions require precise engineering and a philosophy of continuous improvement, both areas in which Zscaler engineers excel.

Responsibilities / What You’ll Do :

• You will develop and sustain features and functionalities of Zscaler Virtual appliances application running on ESXI, Azure, AWS and GCP.
• You will troubleshoot, identify root cause, and provide fix for the customer reported issues on Zscaler Virtual Appliance application.
• You will automate and maintain Unit Tests written in C and Python
• You will automate, deployment of the next generation OS and packages to production infrastructure.
• You will work on Pipeline to create our Virtual appliances VM images for ESXI, Hypervisor, KVM infra as well as for GCP, AWS, Azure public cloud infrastructure.
• Closely collaborate with QA, DevOps, Product and Security teams to deliver applications to customers.
• You will recreate customer reported production bugs in various lab environments and work on providing solutions to customer reported issues.
• You will work on remote application monitoring functionalities to proactively detect issues in customer infra.
• You will Automate, maintain, and upgrade Cloud applications through Bamboo and Jenkins tools.
• You will analyze Linux and FreeBSD tools and packages and compile / build new packages for production deployment.
• You will configure and monitor engineering cloud infrastructure events and alerts. Take necessary actions to address the Alerts.

Qualifications / Your Background :

• Programming skills in Perl, Python and Shell script and understanding of C, C++ code.
• Background in Linux / FreeBSD systems
• Experience with cloud technologies such as OpenStack, VMware, AWS, Azure, GCP.
• Work with technologies like Ansible, Terraform, and CI / CD platforms.
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and performance for all our deployments and environments, both internally and externally.
• Automate and create workloads in Bamboo and Jenkins that enable all engineers to develop high-quality, production code quickly.

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

Base Pay Range $147,000 $210,000 USD

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