Principal DevOps Engineer

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'll do:

• Drive initiatives to implement and enforce best practices for data streaming, processing, analytics and monitoring infrastructure.
• Deploy and manage services on Kubernetes-based platforms such as Amazon EKS and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring best practices in security, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, ArgoCD, and GitHub Enterprise Actions to support automated deployments and testing.
• Work with cloud-native data services such as AWS Kinesis, AWS Glue, Google Dataflow, and Google Pub/Sub, BigQuery, BigTable
• Familiarity with  workflow orchestration services such as Apache Airflow and Google Cloud Composer.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and tooling using Python to support DevOps processes.
• Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and implement proactive solutions to enhance reliability and efficiency.
• Implement SRE practices to improve service reliability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Analyze and optimize cloud costs, identifying areas for improvement and implementing cost-saving strategies.
• Ensure compliance with security policies and best practices in cloud environments.
• Drive adoption of company standards and influence data teams to align with best DevOps and SRE practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve development workflows and infrastructure.

What you bring:

• 7+ years of experience in a DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure role.
• Strong experience with AWS and GCP data services, including Kinesis, Glue, Pub/Sub, and Dataflow.
• Proficiency in deploying and managing workloads on Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Expertise in CI/CD pipeline management using Jenkins, ArgoCD, and GitHub Enterprise Actions.
• Programming skills in Python for automation and scripting.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or CloudWatch).
• Strong understanding of SRE principles, including performance monitoring, incident response, and reliability engineering.
• Experience with cost optimization strategies for cloud infrastructure.
• Self-motivated and driven, with a strong ability to influence and drive changes across multiple teams.
• Ability to work collaboratively in an agile environment and support multiple teams.

Preferred Qualification:

• Experience with data lake architectures and big data processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark, Flink, Snowflake, BigQuery).
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow and Google Cloud Composer.
• Knowledge of service mesh technologies like Istio.
• Experience with GitOps workflows and Kubernetes-native tooling.

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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