Alfred Garcia

About Alfred Garcia

Infrastructure Platforms and Site Reliability Engineering leader with experience across Kubernetes, Cloud Infrastructure, CI/CD, Monitoring/Observability, Chaos Engineering, Networking, Systems, Security Operations. During my 25+ year journey, I\'ve been fortunate to have experienced first-hand the evolution of Web Operations, being an early adopter of public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and an aggressive advocate of a DevSecOps culture, promoting deep Operations, Engineering and Security collaboration, from design to code/test and release to production support.

Experience

1. Senior Director, Site Reliability Engineering

   Zscaler

   Oct 2024 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Head of SRE & Infrastructure for ZPA (ZScaler Private Access). I run a global team of SWEs/SREs focused on service reliability, ensuring mature operability practices including infrastructure architecture, deployment automation, monitoring and incident rapid response.

Education

• California State University - East Bay

  Computer Science

• Coding Dojo

  Software Engineering

Skills

• Noc
• Integration
• Devops
• Incident Management
• Ssae 16
• Hadoop
• Service Level Management
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• General Awesomeness
• System Architecture
• IT Operations
• Architecture
• Linux System Administration
• Disaster Recovery
• Network Security
• Cisco Technologies
• Problem Management
• Leadership
• Information Security Management
• Big Data
• Vendor Management
• Awesomeness
• Management
• IT Management
• Service Continuity
• Supplier Negotiation
• San
• Mobile Devices
• Unix
• Service Availability
• Data Center
• IT Service Management
• Databases
• Linux Server
• Release Management
• Cogs
• Change Management
• Architectures
• Release Engineering
• Linux