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Lead DevOps Engineer

ExecutivePlacements.com
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/21/2025 CLOSED ON 1/21/2026

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Who We Are

Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) is the AI-Powered Marketing Cloud that leverages advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and trillions of consumer signals to make it easier for marketers to acquire, grow, and retain customers more efficiently. Through the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), our vision is to make sophisticated marketing simple by unifying identity, intelligence, and omnichannel activation into a single platform powered by one of the industrys largest proprietary databases and AI. Our enterprise customers across multiple verticals are empowered to personalize experiences with consumers at an individual level across every channel, delivering better results for marketing programs. Zeta was founded in 2007 by David A. Steinberg and John Sculley and is headquartered in New York City with offices around the world. To learn more, go to .

The Role

As a Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer, you will drive initiatives that enhance the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of both production and development environments. You will lead major infrastructure and automation projects, improve tools and processes, and ensure the seamless deployment, monitoring, and operation of critical applications. This role includes guiding CI/CD strategy, advancing infrastructure-as-code practices, and providing operational leadership across engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership across infrastructure and automation projects.
  • Drive automation and maintenance of performance testing and pre-production environments.
  • Lead containerization efforts and champion Infrastructure as Code best practices.
  • Design and implement automation for engineering, deployment, and operational workflows.
  • Define and execute high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) strategies.
  • Architect, optimize, and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting multiple services and teams.
  • Create, maintain, and automate runbooks to improve operational consistency and reduce toil.
  • Participate in and guide on-call support, ensuring production systems remain stable and performant.

Requirements

  • 7 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, TechOps, or similar roles.
  • 5 years of experience leading technical projects or contributing as a technical lead.
  • 3 years working with containers and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, EKS, ECS).
  • Strong proficiency in shell scripting and at least one programming language such as Python or Go.
  • Demonstrated ability to define project scope, requirements, and delivery milestones.
  • Experience leading or collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams.
  • Solid experience operating and optimizing AWS production environments.
  • Strong knowledge of monitoring and observability technologies (e.g., OTEL, Prometheus, Grafana).
  • Experience with at least two configuration or IaC tools, such as Puppet, Salt, Ansible, or Terraform.
  • Experience implementing or managing secrets management tools (e.g. Vault, AWS Secrets Manger)
  • Strong understanding of cloud security best practices and vulnerability management.

Benefits & Perks

  • Unlimited PTO
  • Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Employee Equity
  • Employee Discounts, Virtual Wellness Classes, and Pet Insurance And more!!

SALARY RANGE

The salary range for this role is $165,000 - $175,000,depending on location and experience.

PEOPLE & CULTURE AT ZETA

Salary : $165,000 - $175,000

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