Staff DevOps Engineer

Zscaler • San Jose, CA

1d • $133,000 - $190,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer to join our team. This is a hybrid role based in San Jose, CA 3 days a week, reporting to the Director, Software Development Engineering in the Identity team department. As a Staff DevOps Engineer, you will focus on managing development and infrastructure demands, steering systems architecture, maintaining support and security, deploying systems, and supporting peer developers.

Requirements

• Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions to optimize outcomes within your functional domain
• Experience hosting 24x7 services in public cloud providers AWS/GCP(AWS is must) with automation and orchestration using tools such as Terraform, Cloudformation, or Ansible
• Experience managing and deploying Kubernetes resources using Helm charts. Proficiency with gitlab (or similar tooling), or similar CI/CD tools
• Working knowledge of Databases & SQL (Postgres preferred) and experience with cloud-based architecture building blocks like message queuing, in-memory caches, and load balancing
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering
• U.S. Citizenship (required due to the secure nature of the work)

Nice To Haves

• Experience implementing AIOps, AI-driven predictive scaling, or automated anomaly detection to optimize cloud infrastructure performance and reliability
• Familiarity with logging and monitoring technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, Alert manager
• Advanced experience running highly available cloud services, with a proven track record of optimizing Zscaler service deployments and cloud cost utilization frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Provision Zscaler services on public cloud (AWS, GCP) using Kubernetes, helm and terraform
• Ensure security compliance of service deployment
• Work with the team to control costs and optimize cloud utilization
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines
• Evangelize and instruct Software Engineers in DevOps philosophy

Benefits

• Various health plans
• Time off plans for vacation and sick time
• Parental leave options
• Retirement options
• Education reimbursement
• In-office perks

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior