Sr Staff Software Engineer, DevOps (Internet Security Platform Team)

About the position

Palo Alto Networks runs a large hybrid infrastructure and is one of the largest GCP customers. As a DevOps Engineer, you will be part of a team supporting the services running on this infrastructure. This includes automation, architecture, performance, metrics, troubleshooting, security, and reliability. This role is located at our dynamic Santa Clara CA headquarters campus. It is not a remote position. Our stack includes Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, AWS, Azure, Terraform, Vault, Gitlab CICD, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, SQL/NoSQL, Python, and Go. We don't expect you to know all these, but we do expect you to learn the ones needed for this role.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the success of DevOps
• Develop expertise in new technologies
• Work with developers, researchers, data scientists, and security experts
• Design, build, and operate reliable, secure Cloud infrastructure
• Ensure that applications are production-ready, scalable, and reliable
• Develop tools and automation frameworks
• Automate robust deployment of robust services
• Orchestrate end-to-end monitoring and alerting
• Participate with DevOps in the on-call rotation
• Lead root cause analysis of critical business and production issues
• Mentor and champion DevOps culture
• Participate in design reviews

Requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience or equivalent military experience required
• Strong Linux administration, internals, and network troubleshooting
• Expertise in configuration management with a framework such as Terraform, Helm, or Ansible
• Experience in Production Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability
• Expertise in public or private cloud, especially GCP or AWS
• Experience in container or Kubernetes setup and configuration
• Capable to automate tasks with programming like Python, shell scripting or Golang
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab CI preferred
• Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot complex distributed systems handling high volume transactions
• Excellent written and verbal communication, able to collaborate and rally support
• Self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Passion for infrastructure and monitoring as code
• Ready to understand and dissect new technology stacks quickly

Benefits

• FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees
• Mental and financial health resources
• Personalized learning opportunities
• Restricted stock units
• Bonus opportunities