Senior Federal SRE: Cloud Reliability & Security Ops

Zscaler; Virginia; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

Time off

Parental leave

Retirement plan

Education reimbursement

In-office perks

Job summary

Zscaler in Virginia seeks a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Federal) to join our Government Cloud team. This hybrid role focuses on operating within US Government classified environments, ensuring our multi-tenant cloud security platform remains secure, scalable, and reliable for customers worldwide.

You will manage deployments, on-call duties, incident response, and DevOps practices across AWS, private clouds, containers, and VMs, with emphasis on security and automation while collaborating

Qualifications

• Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions to optimize outcomes within your functional domain.
• This position requires an active US Government Secret security clearance. Maintenance of this clearance is a condition of continued employment
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field with 5+ years of Site Reliability Engineering experience in both Operations and Engineering environments
• Proficiency in Linux administration, network troubleshooting, and automation tools like Ansible and Terraform
• Strong technical skills in Python coding, container-based architectures including AWS ECS and Kubernetes, and experience in monitoring activities such as vulnerability scanning, patch management, and reporting

Responsibilities

• Manage operational tasks for products in US Government classified environments, including deployments, on-call duties, incident management, and participation in regular deployment syncs
• Oversee all cloud infrastructure components such as AWS, private cloud environments, containers, and VMs to ensure stability and scalability
• Develop scripts, containerized services, and monitoring mechanisms to automate operations tasks and minimize service disruption
• Build new and enhance existing services within classified environments while driving DevOps best practices through documentation and escalation management

Skills

Linux admin

Python

Networking

Ansible

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS ECS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Zscaler in Virginia seeks a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Federal) to join our Government Cloud team. This hybrid role focuses on operating within US Government classified environments, ensuring our multi-tenant cloud security platform remains secure, scalable, and reliable for customers worldwide.

You will manage deployments, on-call duties, incident response, and DevOps practices across AWS, private clouds, containers, and VMs, with emphasis on security and automation while collaborating