Remote AI DevOps Engineer - Automate & Secure Multi-Cloud

zscaler; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

Vacation & sick time

Parental leave

Retirement programs

Education reimbursement

In-office perks

Job summary

Zscaler is seeking an AI DevOps Engineer to design and ship automation for provisioning environments, enforcing security baselines, and integrating AI-assisted tooling across a multi-cloud platform.

You will reduce toil and boost operational consistency by building scalable automation, while collaborating with Security, IAM, Network, and FinOps teams to implement guardrails and compliant workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating multi-cloud infrastructure at scale.
• Hands-on Terraform module design, state management, and CI-driven workflows.
• Scripting automation with Python, Bash, or equivalent languages.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipeline design and Kubernetes operations.
• Understanding of identity federation, secrets management, and least-privilege security patterns.
• Demonstrated curiosity and active exploration of AI tools integrated into daily workflows.

Responsibilities

• Build Day 1 automation: infrastructure provisioning pipelines, account vending, golden repo templates, and CI/CD components.
• Build Day 2 automation for lifecycle management, upgrade pipelines, dependency scanning, drift detection, and automated remediation.
• Develop and maintain Terraform modules, GitLab CI/CD components, and Python automation defining the paved road.
• Embed AI and agentic tooling into operational workflows to accelerate delivery and reduce manual intervention.
• Partner with Security, IAM, Network, and FinOps to translate requirements into automated guardrails.

Skills

Multi-cloud infra

Terraform

Python

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Identity federation

Secrets management

AI tooling

Tools

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Kubernetes

Job description

Zscaler is seeking an AI DevOps Engineer to design and ship automation for provisioning environments, enforcing security baselines, and integrating AI-assisted tooling across a multi-cloud platform.

You will reduce toil and boost operational consistency by building scalable automation, while collaborating with Security, IAM, Network, and FinOps teams to implement guardrails and compliant workflows.