Senior DevSecOps Engineer (Information Security) HQ - Fedramp

$146,000 - $237,500/Yr

Palo Alto Networks - Santa Clara, CA

Full-time - Senior

Santa Clara, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior DevSecOps Engineer at Palo Alto Networks is responsible for securing and delivering security for the company's Enterprise, SaaS, and Public Cloud security services. This role involves building, maintaining, and scaling critical security production services in a Google Cloud Platform environment, while collaborating with various teams to implement security capabilities and improve operational readiness. The position is highly visible and plays a crucial role in driving the company's mission to be a disruptive force in cybersecurity.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and scale production services in government cloud environments across Enterprise, FedRAMP, and DoD.
• Apply understanding and experience of federal government systems to improve adaptability and operational readiness.
• Implement security capabilities and services to protect enterprise and hosting environments.
• Write automation code for provisioning and operating infrastructure at scale.
• Partner with Reliability Engineering to create and apply DevSecOps principles and processes.
• Collaborate with application developers and database administrators to deliver solutions to technology challenges.
• Counsel project teams and application owners on information security controls.
• Ensure applications fit within the infrastructure and are designed for scalability and reliability.
• Participate in on-call schedule to troubleshoot incidents and fix production issues.
• Conduct postmortem reviews and provide remediation recommendations.
• Document implementations through technical documentation and run-books.
• Provide operational support and engineering for large distributed security services.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years industry experience with at least 3 years in DevOps automation and tooling, including cloud security.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security architecture, web application security, vulnerability management, and security engineering.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and observability skills.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (IAC) in a controlled environment and full lifecycle configuration management.
• Experience with GCP (preferred) or AWS, and containerized environments (Kubernetes).
• Ability to leverage DevOps/DevSecOps tools for building and maintaining a cloud-based security orchestration platform.
• Experience developing automated security and compliance capabilities in large-scale cloud environments.
• Ability to integrate security practices across a continuous delivery pipeline.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve systems or networking issues quickly.
• Experience collecting metrics and interpreting data for decision-making.
• Ability to multitask and prioritize multiple issues.
• Team-oriented with a focus on successful completion of group goals.
• Ability to create design specifications and prepare technical documentation.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience handling US federal government project deliverables.

Benefits

• FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items.
• Mental and financial health resources.
• Personalized learning opportunities.