In this role you will: 

• Serve as a primary point responsible the overall health, performance, and capacity of our business systems
• Assist in the roll-out and deployment of new releases to facilitate our rapid iteration and constant growth
• Develop tools to improve our ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor our application stack.
• Work closely with software engineers to ensure our applications are designed with "operability" in mind
• Participate in a 24x7 on call rotation
• Ensure high reliability of our services

We are looking for: 

• Prior experience in an enterprise facing technical operations role
• 5+ years in a UNIX-based operations role
• Deep UNIX/Linux systems knowledge and/or systems administration background managing large business critical deployments
• Strong troubleshooting skills that span systems, network, and code
• Demonstrated programming skills in one or more of: Python, Ruby, Java, C, Shell
• Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Google Cloud

Perks and benefits:

• People – the best part of Zest
• Competitive salary and equity grants
• Robust healthcare plans, matching 401K and unlimited vacation time
• Dog friendly office with lounge areas, video games and gigantic jigsaw puzzles
• On-site gym with employee run fitness classes
• Generous family leave policy (6 month maternity leave/3 month paternity leave)
• Tuition reimbursement, conference allowance and Zest talks
• Complimentary massages, manicures, pedicures and more
• Daily catered lunches from LA’s best restaurants and fully stocked kitchen 

About ZestFinance:

ZestFinance, Inc. applies its unique credit-decisioning technology platform — based on data science and machine learning — to help lenders effectively predict credit risk so they can increase revenues, reduce risk and ensure compliance. ZestFinance was founded in 2009 by Douglas Merrill and a team of former Google employees with the mission of making fair and transparent credit available to everyone.

We are committed to diversity in hiring, professional development, and everyday discussion.  Zest is determined to hire crazy smart people who are different from each other to create broad thinking, lots of different ideas, and by extension, the best team possible.