# Staff Site Reliability Engineer-Federal, Security Clearance

**Company**: Zscaler
**Location**: Crystal City, Virginia
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $140,000-$175,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Zscaler seeks a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Federal) to join its team in Crystal City, Virginia. This hybrid role reports to the Manager, Site Reliability Engineering in the Government Cloud department.

The engineer will manage operations within classified environments, ensuring the company's multitenant architecture remains a leader in cloud security. Responsibilities include:

- Managing operational tasks for products in US Government classified environments, including deployments, on-call duties, incident management, and participation in regular deployment syncs

- Overseeing cloud infrastructure components such as AWS, private cloud environments, containers, and VMs to ensure stability and scalability

- Developing scripts, containerized services, and monitoring mechanisms to automate operations tasks and minimize service disruption

- Building new and enhancing existing services within classified environments while driving DevOps best practices through documentation and escalation management

The ideal candidate will thrive in ambiguity, act like an owner, be a problem-solver, collaborate effectively, and be a learner with a growth mindset.

Requirements include:

- Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience with AI-driven solutions

- Active US Government Secret security clearance

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field with 5+ years of Site Reliability Engineering experience

- Proficiency in Linux administration, network troubleshooting, and automation tools like Ansible and Terraform

- Strong technical skills in Python coding, container-based architectures, and experience in monitoring activities

Preferred qualifications include experience with AI-driven observability and AIOps solutions, working within air-gapped and classified environments, and familiarity with High/Moderate FedRAMP authorization levels.

The base salary range for this full-time position is $140,000-$175,000 USD. Zscaler offers comprehensive benefits, including various health plans, time off plans, parental leave options, retirement options, education reimbursement, and in-office perks.

## Skills

### Required
- AI/ML technologies
- Linux administration
- network troubleshooting
- automation tools like Ansible and Terraform
- Python coding
- container-based architectures

### Nice to have
- AI-driven observability and AIOps solutions
- working within air-gapped and classified environments
- High/Moderate FedRAMP authorization levels

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