Job Summary: 

We are seeking a highly skilled and self-motivated Senior Embedded DevOps Engineer to support our engineering  teams. This role will focus on driving changes and ensuring adherence to company-established standards for data infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. The ideal candidate will have strong experience working with AWS and/or GCP,  cloud-based data streaming and processing services, containerized application deployments, infrastructure automation, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices for performance and cost optimization.

What You'll do:

• Drive initiatives to implement and enforce best practices for data streaming, processing, analytics and monitoring infrastructure.
• Deploy and manage services on Kubernetes-based platforms such as Amazon EKS and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring best practices in security, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, ArgoCD, and GitHub Enterprise Actions to support automated deployments and testing.
• Work with cloud-native data services such as AWS Kinesis, AWS Glue, Google Dataflow, and Google Pub/Sub, BigQuery, BigTable
• Familiarity with  workflow orchestration services such as Apache Airflow and Google Cloud Composer.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and tooling using Python to support DevOps processes.
• Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and implement proactive solutions to enhance reliability and efficiency.
• Implement SRE practices to improve service reliability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Analyze and optimize cloud costs, identifying areas for improvement and implementing cost-saving strategies.
• Ensure compliance with security policies and best practices in cloud environments.
• Drive adoption of company standards and influence data teams to align with best DevOps and SRE practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve development workflows and infrastructure.

What you bring:

• 7+ years of experience in a DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure role.
• Strong experience with AWS and GCP data services, including Kinesis, Glue, Pub/Sub, and Dataflow.
• Proficiency in deploying and managing workloads on Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Expertise in CI/CD pipeline management using Jenkins, ArgoCD, and GitHub Enterprise Actions.
• Programming skills in Python for automation and scripting.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or CloudWatch).
• Strong understanding of SRE principles, including performance monitoring, incident response, and reliability engineering.
• Experience with cost optimization strategies for cloud infrastructure.
• Self-motivated and driven, with a strong ability to influence and drive changes across multiple teams.
• Ability to work collaboratively in an agile environment and support multiple teams. 

Preffered Qualifications:

• Experience with data lake architectures and big data processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark, Flink, Snowflake, BigQuery).
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow and Google Cloud Composer.
• Knowledge of service mesh technologies like Istio.
• Experience with GitOps workflows and Kubernetes-native tooling.

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At ZoomInfo we encourage creativity, value innovation, demand teamwork, expect accountability and cherish results. If you are collaborative, take initiative, and get stuff done we want to talk to you! We have high aspirations for the company and are looking for the right people to help fulfill the dream. We strive to continually improve every aspect of the company and use cutting-edge technologies and processes to delight our customers and rapidly increase revenues.

Job Overview

The Infrastructure Engineering group (IE) is responsible for innovation in infrastructure and automation for ZoomInfo Engineering. Our size, culture, and the support we receive from every area the company allow us unusual latitude and agility. We’re using that to build world class, multiprovider cloud infrastructures, based on the best technologies available, almost completely unhindered by design debt.

Staff in ZoomInfo Engineering are given autonomy and personal discretion in their work, and they get to see their work have a direct and tangible impact on the success of Engineering, and the company’s broader goals. If the idea of operating within an international team, in a fast paced work environment appeals to you, we want to hear from you.

A successful candidate will have a strong background in modern infrastructure, with a thorough understanding of industry best practices. They will have a high level of comfort participating in challenging technical discussions and advocating for best practices in a high-paced environment.

Summary of Essential Job Functions

• Thorough, clear, concise documentation of new and existing standards, procedures, and automated workflows
• Championing of best practices and standards around infrastructure configuration and management
• Experience in creating internal products and managing their software development lifecycle
• Deployment, configuration, and management of infrastructure via infrastructure as code
• Working hands on with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, and GCP)
• Working hands on with container infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, GKE, GAE, etc.)
• Configuration and management of Linux based tools and third-party cloud services
• Continuous improvement of our infrastructure, ensuring that it is highly available and observable

Minimum Requirements

• Solid foundation of experience managing Linux systems in virtual environments (6+ years)
• Deploying and maintaining highly available infrastructure in one or more Cloud providers (5+ years, AWS or GCP preferred)
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform (4+ years)
• Creating, deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting Docker images (4+ years)
• Scoping, deploying, maintaining and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters (4+ years)
• Developing and maintaining an active codebase in Go, Python preferably (3+ years)
• Experience with PaaS technologies (5+ years, EKS and GKE preferred)
• Maintaining monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus preferred)
• Thorough understanding of network infrastructure and concepts (VPNs, routers and routing protocols, TCP/IP, IPv4 and v6, UDP, OSI layers, etc.)
• Experience with load balancing and proxy technologies (Istio, Nginx, HAProxy, Apache, Cloud load balancers, etc.)
• Debugging and troubleshooting complex problems in cloud-native infrastructure.
• Slack native mentality.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications, training, or work experience.
  
  

Abilities Required

• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly and independently
• Strong technical, organizational and interpersonal skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Must be able to read, understand, and communicate complex problems and solutions in English over a textual medium (such as Slack)

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