Sr Engineering Manager Software (Kubernetes)

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Palo Alto Networks

Sr Engineering Manager Software (Kubernetes)

Santa Clara, CA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    Your Career

    We are seeking a highly skilled Sr. Engineering Manager specializing in Kubernetes Orchestration to lead our cloud-native infrastructure team. This role is ideal for a technical leader with deep expertise in Kubernetes, container orchestration, multi-cloud resource orchestration and distributed systems. You will be responsible for architecting, scaling, and optimizing our multi-cloud environments (Terraform, CFT etc. as well as Kubernetes-based environments) while leading a team of engineers to build and maintain high-availability, resilient infrastructure.

    Your Impact

    • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure engineers.

    • Drive a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

    • Establish best practices for container orchestration, CI/CD, and cloud automation.

    • Work cross-functionally with development, DevOps, and security teams to streamline deployments and optimize system reliability.

    Technical Strategy & Implementation:

    • Architect, implement, monitor and scale multi-cloud deployments, Kubernetes clusters for mission-critical applications.

    • Oversee the design and automation of multi-cloud and containerized workloads, ensuring reliability and efficiency.

    • Define and enforce Kubernetes security, networking, and governance best practices. Improve monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions for Kubernetes-based workloads.

    • Evaluate and integrate service mesh technologies like Istio where necessary.

    • Optimize performance, cost, and availability in cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, OCI).

    Process & Collaboration:

    • Develop and manage dynamic orchestration for multiple cloud resources in AWS, GCP, OCI etc.

    • Develop and manage Kubernetes infrastructure-as-code (IaC)

    • Work closely with SRE and DevOps teams to enhance CI/CD pipelines for containerized applications.

    • Ensure compliance with SLAs, SLOs, and SRE best practices for uptime and performance.

    • Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and capacity planning efforts.

  • Qualifications

    Qualifications

    Your Experience

    • 10+ years of experience in software engineering or infrastructure roles, with 3+ years of Kubernetes orchestration experience.

    • 3+ years in an engineering leadership or management role.

    • Deep expertise in Kubernetes internals, operators, controllers, RBAC, service discovery, and workload scheduling.

    • Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or OCI) and cloud-native technologies.

    • Experience with Helm, Terraform, Kustomize, ArgoCD, or Flux.

    • Proficiency in scripting or programming languages such as Python or Go

    • Solid understanding of networking concepts like CNI, ingress controllers, and service meshes.

    • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

    Preferred:

    • Experience with multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments and edge computing.

    • Familiarity with FinOps principles for Kubernetes cost optimization.

    • Exposure to serverless computing (Knative, AWS Lambda).

    • Experience working with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

    Additional Information

    The Team

    Our engineering team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating — challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don’t shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before. We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

    Compensation Disclosure

    The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $220000 - $282000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

    Our Commitment

    We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

    We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

    Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

    All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.