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Principal DevOps Engineer at ZoomInfo… · San…
Job Description
ZoomInfo is where careers accelerate. We move fast, think boldly, and empower you to do the best work of your life. You’ll be surrounded by teammates who care deeply, challenge each other, and celebrate wins. With tools that amplify your impact and a culture that backs your ambition, you won’t just contribute. You’ll make things happen–fast.
What You Will Do
- Define the technical vision and multi-quarter roadmap for cloud infrastructure, aligned with engineering and business goals
- Lead architecture and design for cross-team initiatives, driving decisions through RFCs and design reviews
- Build and evolve internal platform products that make engineering teams faster and safer, and own their full lifecycle
- Deploy and manage infrastructure hands-on through infrastructure as code, across cloud and container platforms
- Own reliability for critical infrastructure: define SLOs, lead complex incidents, and drive postmortem actions to completion
- Drive cost efficiency and capacity planning across cloud providers
- Embed security, compliance, and policy as code into the platform by default
- Apply AI and agent-based tooling to automate operations and improve developer experience
- Mentor senior engineers, grow technical leaders, and set standards for code, documentation, and operations
- Partner with engineering leadership and product teams, influencing direction without direct authority
Minimum Requirements
- 10+ years in infrastructure, platform, or SRE engineering, including experience operating at Staff or Principal scope
- Proven record of leading large, cross-team infrastructure initiatives from ambiguous problem to production
- Deep expertise in at least one major cloud (GCP or AWS) and working knowledge of a second
- Expert-level Kubernetes: designing, scaling, upgrading, and troubleshooting production clusters (GKE or EKS)
- Strong infrastructure as code practice with Terraform, including module design and state management at scale
- Strong software engineering skills in Go or Python, with a maintained production codebase
- Solid networking fundamentals: VPC design, routing, DNS, load balancing, service mesh (Istio or similar)
- Experience building observability at scale (Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)
- GitOps and CI/CD experience (ArgoCD, Flux, or similar)
- Excellent written and spoken English, with the ability to explain complex tradeoffs clearly in documents and async channels
Nice to Have
- Experience with AI/LLM platform infrastructure or agent-based automation
- Managed data services at scale (e.g. MongoDB Atlas, Cloud SQL, Kafka)
- Secrets management and policy as code (e.g. Akeyless, Vault, OPA)
- FinOps experience with measurable savings
- Experience in a globally distributed engineering organization
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications, training, or work experience.
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In addition to comprehensive benefits we offer holistic mind, body and lifestyle programs designed for overall well-being. Learn more about ZoomInfo benefits here.
About us:
ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM) is the Go-To-Market Intelligence Platform that empowers businesses to grow faster with AI-ready insights, trusted data, and advanced automation. Its solutions provide more than 35,000 companies worldwide with a complete view of their customers, making every seller their best seller.
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