Eric Ziegenhorn
Manager DevOps, Infrastructure And Cloud Security at Palo Alto Networks
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Ziegenhorn is a seasoned DevOps and SRE leader with 11 years of experience building and securing large-scale cloud infrastructure, currently managing DevOps, Infrastructure, and Cloud Security at Palo Alto Networks. He progressed from hands-on systems work at Northrop Grumman and Orbitz to engineering and staff roles at Mozilla, then SRE positions at Citadel and Palo Alto, blending deep operational expertise with strategic leadership. Eric has driven global scaling, cost optimization, and feature delivery while leading teams to operational excellence and stronger security posture. He has practical open-source DevOps experience—contributing deployment and CI/CD improvements to Mozilla’s widely used Kitsune support platform—showing a penchant for streamlining complex release pipelines. Based in Chicago, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with a track record of architecting resilient monitoring, logging, and deployment systems for high-traffic services. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who prefers solving thorny infrastructure problems by automating for reliability and repeatability.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science College of Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science College of Engineering at University of Illinois Chicago
Github Skills (9)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
bash10
docker10
githubaction-workflow10
dockers10
deployment-automation10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/kitsune
May 2019 - Sep 2019
Platform for Mozilla Support
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:43 commits, 19 PRs, 82 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on updating and configuring the deployment infrastructure for the `kitsune` project. Their contributions involved modifying Docker configurations, Kubernetes deployment scripts, and CI/CD automation, including updating image repositories and adjusting Slack notifications. These changes streamlined the deployment process, updated domain configurations, and improved the project's operational efficiency by leveraging new infrastructure.
mozilla
mozilla-it/netlify-redirects
Jul 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:12 PRs, 149 pushes, 12 branches in 5 months
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