Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager

About Zscaler

Serving thousands of enterprise customers around the world including 45% of Fortune 500 companies Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. As the operator of the worlds largest security cloud Zscaler accelerates digital transformation so enterprises can be more agile efficient resilient and secure. The pioneering AI-powered Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform which is found in our SASE and SSE offerings protects thousands of enterprise customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users devices and applications in any location.

Named a Best Workplace in Technology by Fortune and others Zscaler fosters an inclusive and supportive culture that is home to some of the brightest minds in the industry. If you thrive in an environment that is fast-paced and collaborative and you are passionate about building and innovating for the greater good come make your next move with Zscaler.

Our Engineering team built the worlds largest cloud security platform from the ground up and we keep building. With more than 100 patents and big plans for enhancing services and increasing our global footprint the team has made us and our multitenant architecture todays cloud security leader with more than 15 million users in 185 countries. Bring your vision and passion to our team of cloud architects software engineers security experts and more who are enabling organizations worldwide to harness speed and agility with a cloud-first strategy.

Were looking for an experienced Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager to join our Zero Trust Exchange (ZTE) Platform team. In this role you will build our central Availability program establishing the source of truth for system health through synthetic monitoring and operational reviews. You will own the end-to-end program that ensures our services meet the highest standards of performance. You are passionate about using measurement to drive transformation. Reporting to the Sr. Director Engineering you will be responsible for:

• Owning and leading the cross-functional Availability program from strategy to execution including defining service-level objectives and managing the reliability roadmap
• Driving the technical implementation and automation of synthetic monitoring frameworks and operational health metrics
• Running regular Operational Health Review meetings with senior leadership translating data into actionable insights and accountability
• Acting as the central point of contact for operational health and influencing engineering teams to adopt standardized practices
• Working collaboratively to overcome data fragmentation and establish a unified single pane of glass for availability

What Were Looking for (Minimum Qualifications)

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• 8 years of experience in Technical Program Management Site Reliability Engineering or a similar technical leadership role in a large-scale distributed systems environment
• At least 3 years of direct experience leading programs focused on operational excellence site availability or system reliability
• Hands-on experience with observability tooling (Datadog New Relic Prometheus Grafana or similar)
• Deep understanding of SRE concepts including SLOs SLIs and synthetic monitoring

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

• Ability to write scripts or prototypes for automation using languages such as Python or Go
• Experience with advanced data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau Looker) or chaos engineering platforms (e.g. Gremlin)
• Cloud provider (AWS GCP Azure) and/or Kubernetes certifications

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