Senior DevOps Architect - Global Cloud & Reliability

Socket.dev; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 147,000 - 339,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoom is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to provide technical leadership across architecture, CI/CD, and containerization. The role focuses on reliability, scalability, and modernization with cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities include leading deep-dive investigations, improving deployment pipelines, containerization strategy, and modernization of hybrid infrastructures across AWS, OCI, and more. Strong SRE background and mentorship are valued.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in DevOps, SRE for large-scale production systems.
• Hands-on Linux, networking, and distributed systems experience.
• Experience operating low-latency, high-throughput backend services at global scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead deep-dive investigations across diverse services and environments.
• Design and implement improvements in deployment pipelines and CI/CD automation.
• Shape containerization strategy, resource efficiency, and reduce operational friction.
• Modernize hybrid infrastructures across data centers and cloud providers.
• Drive observability, fault isolation, and reliability engineering.

Skills

Linux systems

Distributed systems

Networking

SRE mindset

Global-scale backend

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Mentorship

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Zoom is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to provide technical leadership across architecture, CI/CD, and containerization. The role focuses on reliability, scalability, and modernization with cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities include leading deep-dive investigations, improving deployment pipelines, containerization strategy, and modernization of hybrid infrastructures across AWS, OCI, and more. Strong SRE background and mentorship are valued.