Senior DevOps Engineer (MOS)

ZoomInfo

ZoomInfo

Software Engineering
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2023

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Devops + GCP

ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: ZI) is the trusted go-to-market platform for businesses to find, acquire, and grow their customers. It delivers accurate, real-time data, insights, and technology to more than 35,000 companies worldwide. Businesses use ZoomInfo to increase efficiency, consolidate technology stacks, and align their sales and marketing teams — all in one platform.

The Infrastructure and DevOps group (IDO) 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, multi-provider cloud infrastructures, based on the best technologies available, almost completely unhindered by design debt.

Staff in Zoom 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.

Within the IDO group, the DevOps team is the main point of contact with, and advocate for, developers and their needs. The team’s goal is to accommodate and anticipate the developers’ needs, providing support, infrastructure, deployment automation, and technical guidance as needed. We constantly look for ways to improve the developer experience, release infrastructure, and automation. DevOps staff provide technical guidance and infrastructure education to developers, ensuring best practices are followed while their needs are met.

A successful candidate will have a strong background in both traditional DevOps release work and 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.

Responsibilities:

Work with the latest and greatest technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and more.

Manage our Cloud-native high scale production deployments (SaaS) running on Kubernetes in GCP, AWS.

Support developers deploying services in production and assist with day to day technical operation.

Design and develop self-service tools for managing and applying DevOps principles, such as CI/CD automation with Jenkins and IaC (Infrastructure as Code) with Terraform on our Cloud-based production systems.

Own production infrastructure stability, availability, and reliability.

Install, configure, update and troubleshoot our product services and tools

Collaborate with Engineering teams to identify optimization strategies, help develop self-healing capabilities

Design and manage different monitoring and observability tools for troubleshooting and resolving production issues.

Identifying, analysing, and resolving infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.

Regularly reviewing existing systems and making recommendations for improvements.

Desired Skills and Experience:

7 years of experience in DevOps (software engineering skills are a plus).

At least 3+ years experience as an Infrastructure, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineer in high scale Production environments.

Experience in Docker and related container orchestration tools such as ECS, Kubernetes.

At least 3+ years of experience managing/owning a Kubernetes-based platform.

Experience in Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud - GCP preferred.

2+ years of experience in scripting (Python/ GO/ Typescript).

Knowledge in monitoring tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, New Relic, etc..

Experience in building/enhancing multi-tier infrastructure and services using infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Pulumi, etc…

Proven work experience in provisioning Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform Enterprise or community edition.

Practical knowledge of building and maintaining scalable, high-performance systems.

Advanced knowledge of Linux OS and networking.

Nice to have:

GCP Certified (Google Cloud Associate or Professional)

Experience in package, config and deployment management via Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD.

About us:

ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: ZI) is the trusted go-to-market platform for businesses to find, acquire, and grow their customers. It delivers accurate, real-time data, insights, and technology to more than 35,000 companies worldwide. Businesses use ZoomInfo to increase efficiency, consolidate technology stacks, and align their sales and marketing teams — all in one platform.

ZoomInfo may use a software-based assessment as part of the recruitment process. More information about this tool, including the results of the most recent bias audit, is available here.

ZoomInfo is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunities for applicants and employees regardless of sex, race, age, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability status, religion, protected military or veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic or status protected by applicable law. At ZoomInfo, we also consider qualified candidates with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.