Senior Staff Data Center Operations Engineer

Zscaler•San Jose, CA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

About Zscaler Zscaler accelerates digital transformation so our customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. Our cloud native Zero Trust Exchange platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Here, impact in your role matters more than title and trust is built on results. We believe in transparency and value constructive, honest debate —we’re focused on getting to the best ideas, faster. We build high-performing teams that can make an impact quickly and with high quality. To do this, we are building a culture of execution centered on customer obsession, collaboration, ownership and accountability. We value high-impact, high-accountability with a sense of urgency where you’re enabled to do your best work and embrace your potential. If you’re driven by purpose, thrive on solving complex challenges and want to make a positive difference on a global scale, we invite you to bring your talents to Zscaler and help shape the future of cybersecurity. Our Engineering team built the world’s largest cloud security platform from the ground up, and we keep building. With more than 100 patents and big plans for enhancing services and increasing our global footprint, the team has made us and our multi-tenant architecture today's cloud security leader, with more than 15 million users in 185 countries. Bring your vision and passion to our team of cloud architects, software engineers, security experts, and more who are enabling organizations worldwide to harness speed and agility with a cloud-first strategy. We’re looking for an experienced Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our core Infrastructure team. This role is onsite and based in our San Jose, CA office five days a week. Reporting to the Datacenter Deployment Manager, you will be responsible for:

Requirements

7-10 years experience working in a hardware automation/build environment
Experience in translating cloud workload to bare metal platform requirements
Deep understanding of various types of servers, network devices and configurations, and physical connectivity and their influence on platform performance
Experience with the LINUX/UNIX command line, BIOS, OOB mgmt (ILO, SAA, iDRAC, IPMI, etc)
Ability to occasionally lift and carry 50 lbs

Nice To Haves

Basic scripting capabilities - BASH / Python
Experience with virtualization solutions such as KVM and Proxmox
Familiarity with build automation technologies such as Ansible or PXE boot
Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, or other ticketing and documentation tools

Responsibilities

Work with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to facilitate new hardware and platform specification and selection
Provision new hardware and network devices in a staging environment that will be deployed globally to expand and supplement the Zscaler network
Troubleshoot issues within our build environment and repair or replace server and network components and infrastructure
Collaborate with the maintenance, network, install and platform engineering teams, execute and validate build activities and engage and assist in optimizing processes