Key skills
PythonGoSQLNoSQLAIAWSTerraformIAMInfluxDBPrometheusLoad BalancingCI/CDZero Trust
About this role
Zscaler is an AI-forward enterprise focused on securing digital transformation for its customers. They are seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to architect and manage their global cloud infrastructure for Zero Trust Networking Services, ensuring high availability and operational health of a distributed system.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement a multi-region AWS architecture and lead the development of modular Terraform libraries to automate provisioning across diverse geographies
- Architect self-healing infrastructure using advanced cloud load balancing, auto-scaling patterns, and Multi-AZ database topologies to ensure high availability
- Modernize CI/CD pipelines and implement Blue/Green and Canary deployment strategies to ensure zero-downtime upgrades for a continuously running global network service
- Build comprehensive SRE dashboards and implement intelligent alerting frameworks to detect regional outages or capacity exhaustion before they impact customers
- Monitor cloud resource utilization and implement scaling policies that perfectly balance performance requirements with cost-efficiency
Requirements:
- 12+ years of overall experience in Software Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering combined with a BS/MS in Computer Science or relevant field
- Deep mastery of AWS services and architecting AWS-managed SQL and NoSQL data stores, with a focus on designing scalable local and multi-region deployment strategies
- Advanced expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and expert proficiency in Python or Go for building automation tooling
- Strong knowledge of Linux/BSD internals, observability stacks (Prometheus, InfluxDB), and security compliance (PKI, IAM, DevSecOps)
- U.S. citizenship due to the nature of the customers assigned to this role
- Experience managing large-scale distributed systems or IoT-style connectivity platforms
- Background in Network Engineering or working with Data Plane forwarding technologies
- Experience with Chaos Engineering methodologies in a public cloud environment