Zscaler

Staff Site Reliability Engineer – Federal

Zscaler

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $119,000 - $170,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSCloudDNSKubernetesLinuxPythonSQLTerraform

About the role

  • Managing operational tasks for Zscaler’s products in the US Government’s classified environments, including deployments, on-call duties, and incident management. This includes participation in regular deployment sync meetings and operational hand-offs
  • Managing all cloud infrastructure components such as AWS, private cloud environments, containers, and VMs
  • Developing scripts, containerized services, and monitoring mechanisms to automate operations tasks and ensure minimal disruption to service
  • Developing operations documentation, handling escalations, implementing measures to prevent recurring incidents, and contributing to DevOps best practices
  • Building new and enhancing existing Zscaler services within classified environments

Requirements

  • Active Secret Security Clearance required and must be maintained throughout employment
  • 5+ years of Site Reliability Engineering experience and Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • Site Reliability Engineering experience in both Operations and Engineering environments
  • Experience with High/Moderate FedRAMP authorization levels and monthly monitoring, including vulnerability scanning, evaluation, patching, and reporting. Knowledgeable in virtualization, cloud services, web security, and networking protocols (HTTP, SSL/TLS, DNS, SQL)
  • Proficiency in Linux administration, network troubleshooting, automation tools like Ansible and Terraform, and skilled in Python coding and container-based architectures (AWS ECS, Kubernetes)
Benefits
  • Various health plans
  • Time off plans for vacation and sick time
  • Parental leave options
  • Retirement options
  • Education reimbursement
  • In-office perks, and more!

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
Site Reliability EngineeringLinux administrationPython codingautomation toolsAnsibleTerraformcontainer-based architecturesAWS ECSKubernetesnetwork troubleshooting
Soft skills
incident managementoperational task managementdocumentation developmentescalation handlingDevOps best practices
Certifications
Active Secret Security Clearance