Job Description

Your Career

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.

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.

Your Impact

• 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

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 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 programing 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
• Participate the on-call rotation

Additional Information

The Team

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 $126000 - $203500/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.