The Infrastructure Engineering group (IE) is responsible for innovation in infrastructure and automation for ZoomInfo Engineering. Our size, culture, and the support we receive from every area the company allow us unusual latitude and agility. We’re using that to build world class, multiprovider cloud infrastructures, based on the best technologies available, almost completely unhindered by design debt. The Cloud Infrastructure group is responsible for maintaining shared and core infrastructure and services, as well as setting and enforcing operational and management standards for infrastructure.

A successful candidate will have a strong background in modern infrastructure, with a thorough understanding of industry best practices. They will have a high level of comfort participating in challenging technical discussions and advocating for best practices in a high-paced environment.

What you’ll do:

• Thorough, clear, concise documentation of new and existing standards, procedures, and automated workflows
• Championing of best practices and standards around infrastructure configuration and management
• Deployment, configuration, and management of infrastructure via infrastructure as code
• Working hands on with cloud infrastructure (GCP and AWS)
• Working hands on with container infrastructure (primarily GKE and EKS)
• 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

What you’ll bring:

• Solid foundation of experience managing Linux systems in virtual environments (4+ years)
• Deploying and maintaining highly available infrastructure in one or more Cloud providers (3+ years, AWS or GCP preferred)
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform (3+ years)
• Creating, deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting Docker images (2+ years)
• Scoping, deploying, maintaining and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters (3+ years)
• Developing and maintaining an active codebase in Go, Python preferably (3+ years)
• Experience with PaaS technologies (3+ years)
• Maintaining monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus preferred)
• Thorough understanding of network infrastructure and concepts
• Experience with load balancing and proxy technologies (Istio, Nginx, HAProxy, Apache, Cloud load balancers, etc.)
• Debugging and troubleshooting complex problems in cloud-native infrastructure.
• 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)

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