Staff DevOps Engineer

About Zscaler Zscaler accelerates digital transformation to ensure our customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. As an AI-forward enterprise, we are constantly pushing the envelope, leveraging the world’s largest security data lake to power our cloud-native Zero Trust Exchange platform. This innovation protects our 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 say, impact over activity. We seek innovators who actively use AI to amplify their impact and who thrive in an environment where we leverage intelligent systems to stay ahead of evolving threats. 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 be part of the team that’s helping to secure the AI age, we invite you to bring your talents to Zscaler and help shape the future of cybersecurity. Role 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. What you’ll do (Role Expectations) - 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 Who You Are (Success Profile) - You thrive in ambiguity. You're comfortable building the path as you walk it. You thrive in a dynamic environment, seeing ambiguity not as a hindrance, but as the raw material to build something meaningful. - You act like an owner. Your passion for the mission fuels your bias for action. You operate with integrity because you genuinely care about the outcome. True ownership involves leveraging dynamic range: the ability to navigate seamlessly between high-level strategy and hands-on execution. - You are a problem-solver. You love running towards the challenges because you are laser-focused on finding the solution, knowing that solving the hard problems delivers the biggest impact. - You are a high-trust collaborator. You are ambitious for the team, not just yourself. You embrace our challenge culture by giving and receiving ongoing feedback—knowing that candor delivered with clarity and respect is the truest form of teamwork and the fastest way to earn trust. - You are a learner. You have a true growth mindset and are obsessed with your own development, actively seeking feedback to become a better partner and a stronger teammate. You love what you do and you do it with purpose. What We’re Looking for (Minimum Qualifications) - 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, and U.S. Citizenship (required due to the secure nature of the work). What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications) - 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. #LI-Hybrid #LI-CM3 Zscaler’s salary ranges are benchmarked and are determined by role and level. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hir