Sr. Systems Engineer
- Level
- Senior
Not stated in the posting: salary, work type, visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
Senior Systems Engineer
Overview
We are seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to support and enhance the infrastructure that underpins our global business operations. This role involves maintaining and improving enterprise-level systems, including data center operations, hardware platforms, virtualization, backups and recovery, operating systems, networking, and security.
The ideal candidate will have deep experience in enterprise infrastructure, be self-driven, and capable of independently leading projects from concept to completion. In addition to maintaining existing systems, this role will focus on modernizing and automating infrastructure to improve scalability and performance.
This is a global role that requires collaboration across time zones and includes participation in a 24x7 support rotation with occasional on-call responsibilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Deploy and manage hardware (including gray market systems) in enterprise data centers with assistance from on-site personnel.
- Design, implement, and migrate to modern private cloud infrastructure.
- Establish and maintain configuration management using Foreman, Puppet Enterprise, and Ansible for Linux environments.
- Enhance automated build and deployment pipelines for physical and virtual machines.
- Create configuration roles and automation code using tools like Ansible and Puppet.
- Develop scripts to automate daily tasks for the Systems Engineering team.
- Perform advanced troubleshooting for hardware, Linux, and Windows systems in large-scale environments.
- Lead and plan infrastructure projects independently.
- Provide subject matter expertise in designated technical areas; contribute to technical discussions and architecture decisions.
- Advise on data center best practices, including power configuration, HVAC, and rack design.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of Linux/Unix administration (Solaris, AIX, or other flavors)
- 3+ years of OpenStack engineering and administration
- 5+ years of VMWare or equivalent Engineering and Administration
- 5+ years of scripting experience with Bash, Perl, Ruby, Python, etc.
- 3–5 years of experience with system monitoring tools (Check_MK, Nagios, SolarWinds)
- 3–5 years of hands-on hardware management (Dell, SuperMicro, HP)
- 2–3 years of experience with Puppet for configuration management
- 5+ years of experience using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams)
Preferred Qualifications
- 1–2 years of storage administration (EMC, NetApp, 3PAR, Hitachi)
- 1–2 years of experience with F5 load balancers
- 2–4 years of public or hybrid cloud experience (AWS, Azure, Rackspace)
- 2–3 years of application development experience (Java, C++, C#/VB.NET, PHP, HTML, JavaScript)
- 1–2 years of CI/CD experience (Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.)
- 2+ years with Ansible AWX or Tower
Candidate Profile
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Skilled at mentoring and leading technical discussions (including whiteboarding sessions)
- Excellent documentation skills, particularly using wikis and diagramming tools like Visio or Lucidchart
- Ability to take direction while also contributing ideas for environment improvements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field (or equivalent experience)
Digital Graphic Designer
Summary:
Zeta’s Marketing Operations is comprised of over 50 individuals who provide world class operational support to the stakeholders and clients of Zeta using multiple in-house and commercial performance marketing tools. Our Campaign Operations team is looking for a Digital Graphic Designer in our Hyderabad office to support our in-house Creative Team who loves to create visual stories that help people engage with brands in the digital marketing space. The ideal candidate is eager to learn, open-minded, and interested in being part of a team that creates stunning visual support for our client’s and their respective campaigns.
Attention to detail, combined with a strong working knowledge of design-related applications, is essential.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the development of creative concepts, translating them into visual and interactive form
- Match strategic direction with appropriate design results for the digital and web-based marketing initiatives while providing quality assurance on creative deliverables
- Familiarity with designing for multiple formats such as email, display, social, web and mobile responsive/cross-platform
- Exhibit an awareness of current web design practices and issues of cross-browser compatibility
- Build and maintain a team rapport with production managers, content developers and all other Creative and Campaign Operations team personnel
Essential Competencies:
- Excellent communication skills and fluent in English (both written and verbal)
- Ability to take creative direction and produce highly engaging designs that show a strong attention to detail in a fast-paced team environment
- Excellent graphic design, layout and typography skills with strong, clean visuals
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite programs (specifically Photoshop, Illustrator, XD)
- Familiarity and prior experience working with Figma and Sketch
- Knowledge of front-end development experience such as HTML/CSS is a plus
- Grasp of AI applications and UI/UX design processes or methodology, preferred
- Experience with photo-retouching and logo design and illustration
- Strong design portfolio (please provide link with resume)
Desired Characteristics:
- Bachelor’s degree in design or a related field
- 5+ years of relevant design experience in a digital agency, media company, advertising agency, production studio, creative services environment, etc.
- Strong collaboration, time management and multi-tasking skills
- Experience in a fast-paced service environment
- Comfortable with abbreviated development cycles and flexible with shifting priorities
Company Summary:
Zeta Global is a NYSE listed data-powered marketing technology company with a heritage of innovation and industry leadership. Founded in 2007 by entrepreneur David A. Steinberg and John Sculley, former CEO of Apple Inc and Pepsi-Cola, the Company combines the industry’s 3rd largest proprietary data set (2.4B+ identities) with Artificial Intelligence to unlock consumer intent, personalize experiences and help our clients drive business growth.
Our technology runs on the Zeta Marketing Platform, which powers ‘end to end’ marketing programs for some of the world’s leading brands. With expertise encompassing all digital marketing channels – Email, Display, Social, Search and Mobile – Zeta orchestrates acquisition and engagement programs that deliver results that are scalable, repeatable and sustainable.
Zeta Global is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ancestry, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, medical condition, disability, veterans status, or any other basis protected by law.
Zeta Global Recognized in Enterprise Marketing Software and Cross-Channel Campaign Management Reports by Independent Research Firm
https://www.forbes.com/sites/shelleykohan/2024/06/19/amazon-partners-with-zeta-global-to-deliver-gen-ai-marketing-automation/
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/05/06/zeta-global-ceo-david-steinberg-talks-ai-in-focus-at-milken-conference.html
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240904622808/en/Zeta-Increases-3Q%E2%80%9924-Guidance
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/zeta-global-opens-ai--data-labs-in-san-francisco-and-nyc-300945353.html
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/zeta-global-recognized-in-enterprise-marketing-software-and-cross-channel-campaign-management-reports-by-independent-research-firm-300938241.html
What this role asks for
Standard for software engineering roles
Python
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In most of Zeta Global's ads
AWS
Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.
Read against Zeta Global's other open postings on this site.
The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 52 open in Engineering. 6 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
AWS (47 of 52), Python (35 of 52), Java (33 of 52), Kubernetes (25 of 52), Scala (25 of 52), CI/CD (24 of 52), Airflow (23 of 52)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior Software Engineer posted Oct 5
- Staff Software Engineer posted Oct 1
- Data Engineer posted Sep 29
- Data Engineer posted Sep 29
- Senior Engineer, Data Platform posted Sep 28
- Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform posted Sep 24
- Data Engineer posted Sep 16
- Staff Software Engineer posted Sep 15
- Senior Software Engineer – Forecasting & Recommendations posted Sep 15
- Senior Software Engineer, Identity posted Sep 14
- Senior Software Engineer, Identity posted Sep 14
- Senior Software Engineer - Automation & Tooling posted Sep 7
- Data Engineer, Data Cloud International posted Sep 1
- Lead Software Engineer – Real-Time Events posted Aug 26
- Lead Software Engineer – Real-Time Events posted Aug 26
- Director, Application Security posted Aug 26
- Staff Software Engineer - Performance Advisor posted Aug 11
- Staff Software Engineer - Performance Advisor posted Aug 11
- Senior Data Engineer - Healthcare Data & Audience Applications posted Aug 10
- Senior Data Engineer - Healthcare Data & Audience Applications posted Aug 10
- Senior Compute Platform Engineer posted Jul 20
- Lead Application Security Engineer posted Jul 15
- Lead Site Reliability Engineer posted Jul 15
- Lead Application Security Engineer posted Jul 13
- Lead Compute Platform Engineer posted Jun 24
- Lead Compute Platform Engineer posted Jun 24
- Lead Compute Platform Engineer posted Jun 24
- Director of Engineering posted May 11
- Lead Data Engineer - Healthcare Data & Audience Applications posted Apr 27
- Lead Data Engineer - Healthcare Data & Audience Applications posted Apr 27
- Lead Backend Engineer posted Apr 24
- Senior Backend Engineer posted Apr 24
- Lead Full Stack Engineer posted Apr 13
- Senior Software Engineer — Real-Time Ad Serving posted Apr 8
- Senior Software Engineer — Real-Time Ad Serving posted Apr 8
- Senior Software Engineer — Real-Time Ad Serving posted Apr 8
- Senior Software Engineer posted Mar 2
- Sr AI/ML Engineer posted Feb 17
- Senior Software Engineer posted Dec 10
- Senior Software Engineer posted Dec 10
- Senior Software Engineer posted Dec 10
- Lead Full Stack Engineer, Vertical Applications posted Dec 9
- Lead Software Engineer posted Nov 4
- Lead Software Engineer, Identity posted Oct 22
- Lead Software Engineer, Identity posted Oct 22
- Senior Software Engineer posted Oct 15
- Sr. Systems Administrator posted Jul 25
- Director, Application Security posted May 15
- Senior Software Engineer posted Apr 30
- Senior QA Automation Engineer posted Oct 17
- Senior Backend Engineer posted Mar 27
From the team and dates on Zeta Global's own job board.
Salary context
6 other open postings titled Sr. Systems Engineer state a salary: median USD 153,118 to USD 187,484 a year.
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