Senior DevOps Engineer

At ZoomInfo, we're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering group. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for innovation in infrastructure and automation for ZoomInfo Engineering. You will have a strong background in modern infrastructure, with a thorough understanding of industry best practices. You will have a high level of comfort participating in challenging technical discussions and advocating for best practices in a high-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

• Thorough, clear, concise documentation of new and existing standards, procedures, and automated workflows
• Championing of best practices and standards around infrastructure configuration and management
• Experience in creating internal products and managing their software development lifecycle
• Deployment, configuration, and management of infrastructure via infrastructure as code
• Working hands on with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, and GCP)
• Working hands on with container infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, GKE, GAE, etc.)
• Configuration and management of Linux based tools and third-party cloud services
• Continuous improvement of our infrastructure, ensuring that it is highly available and observable

Minimum Requirements:

• Solid foundation of experience managing Linux systems in virtual environments (6+ years)
• Deploying and maintaining highly available infrastructure in one or more Cloud providers (5+ years, AWS or GCP preferred)
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform (4+ years)
• Creating, deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting Docker images (4+ years)
• Scoping, deploying, maintaining and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters (4+ years)
• Developing and maintaining an active codebase in Go, Python preferably (3+ years)
• Experience with PaaS technologies (5+ years, EKS and GKE preferred)
• Maintaining monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus preferred)
• Thorough understanding of network infrastructure and concepts (VPNs, routers and routing protocols, TCP/IP, IPv4 and v6, UDP, OSI layers, etc.)
• Experience with load balancing and proxy technologies (Istio, Nginx, HAProxy, Apache, Cloud load balancers, etc.)
• Debugging and troubleshooting complex problems in cloud-native infrastructure.
• Slack native mentality.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications, training, or work experience.

Abilities Required:

• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly and independently
• Strong technical, organizational and interpersonal skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Must be able to read, understand, and communicate complex problems and solutions in English over a textual medium (such as Slack)