Principal DevOps Architect: Cloud & Platform

ZoomInfo Technologies LLC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 244,000; Full time

Job summary

ZoomInfo Technologies LLC is seeking a senior infrastructure/Platform/SRE engineer in the United States. You will define the cloud infrastructure strategy, lead cross-team initiatives, and own the lifecycle of internal platform products to accelerate engineering velocity.

Responsibilities include hands-on deployment, reliability via SLOs, cost optimization, and policy-as-code integration. You will mentor engineers and collaborate with leadership to guide technical direction.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in infrastructure, platform, or SRE engineering, including Staff/Principal scope.
• Proven record of leading large cross-team infrastructure initiatives.
• Deep expertise in at least one major cloud (AWS or GCP) and working knowledge of a second.
• Expert-level Kubernetes: designing, scaling, upgrading, and troubleshooting production clusters.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical vision and multi-quarter roadmap for cloud infrastructure.
• Lead architecture and design for cross-team initiatives with RFCs and design reviews.
• Build and evolve internal platform products for engineering teams; own full lifecycle.
• Deploy and manage infrastructure via code across cloud and container platforms.
• Own reliability for critical infrastructure: define SLOs and drive incident postmortems.
• Drive cost efficiency and capacity planning across cloud providers.
• Embed security and policy as code into the platform by default.
• Apply AI and agent-based tooling to automate operations and improve developer experience.
• Mentor senior engineers and set coding/documentation/ops standards.
• Partner with engineering leadership and product teams to influence direction.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Problem solving

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes (GKE/EKS)

Go

Python

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

ArgoCD

Flux

AWS

GCP

Job description

ZoomInfo Technologies LLC is seeking a senior infrastructure/Platform/SRE engineer in the United States. You will define the cloud infrastructure strategy, lead cross-team initiatives, and own the lifecycle of internal platform products to accelerate engineering velocity.

Responsibilities include hands-on deployment, reliability via SLOs, cost optimization, and policy-as-code integration. You will mentor engineers and collaborate with leadership to guide technical direction.