Sr Staff Platformatization Cloud Engineer (CDSS - Cloud Delivered Security Services)

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks CDSS group is looking for a seasoned platformization and cloud automation  engineer to design, develop and deliver next-generation technologies within our CASB teams. We  are looking for leaders who take ownership of their area of focus, and who are driven to solve  challenging technical problems using best practices, and state of the art technologies.  Collaboration and teamwork are at the foundation of our culture, and we need engineers who  can communicate at a high level, and work well with others towards achieving a common goal. If  you have the passion to solve challenging cloud infrastructure and DevOps engineering  problems, if you are interested in pushing your boundaries as an engineer, and working at the  cusp of delivering Data Security at huge scale, and state of the art technologies within a quality  focussed dynamic engineering culture, talk to us.  

Your Impact  

• Work with development teams to ensure that applications have scalability and reliability built-in from day one - agile is second nature to you and you’re excited to work in scrum teams and represent the DevOps perspective  
• Design, review and enhance software architecture to improve scalability, service reliability, cost, and performance - you’ve helped create services that are critical to their  customers’ success  
• Drive platformization by building standardized, self-service infrastructure platforms that improve developer productivity, scalability, and operational efficiency.  
• Deploy automation for provisioning and operating infrastructure at large scale. You are experienced in cloud Infrastructure as Code concepts and have put them into production 
• Partner with teams to improve CI/CD processes and technology - Helping teams in  delivering value early is what you strive for 
• Mentor members of the staff on large scale cloud deployments - you’re an expert in deploying in the cloud and can bring a teaching mindset to help others benefit from your experience  
• Drive the adoption of observability practices and a data-driven mindset - you love metrics, graphs, and gaining a deep understanding of why things happen in a system, helping others gain visibility into the things they build  
• Setup processes like on-call rotations, Postmortems, Run books to continue supporting the infrastructure owned by the SRE team while finding ways to reduce the time to  resolution and improve the reliability of services  
• Support, optimize and deploy mission critical, front-end and back-end production
• Improving site performance, monitoring, and overall stability of our infrastructure  

• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field  
• 5+ years of industry experience in engineering  
• Fluent scripting skills (preferably Python or Bash) with deep experience in Unix/Linux  systems from kernel to shell and beyond.  
• 4+ years of working with Microservices architectures on Kubernetes 
• HandsOn experience with container native tools like Docker, Helm for managing  workloads running in Kubernetes.  
• Experience managing AWS and GCP at scale, with knowledge of cloud-neutral  connectivity between platforms.  
• Experience designing and maintaining API specifications using Swagger/OpenAPI, and  working with API frameworks such as Apigee to enable secure, scalable integrations. 
• HandsOn experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as  Terraform, Ansible, etc.  
• Proficient in CI/CD platforms like GitlabCI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, CircleCI etc. 
• In-depth knowledge of operating systems (processes, threads, concurrency, etc) 
• Implement and enforce network and cloud security best practices, serving as a security  champion within the team.  
• Drive observability initiatives by implementing distributed tracing, standardized logging,  dashboards, and profiling, leveraging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and  OpenTelemetry to ensure SLA/SLO compliance  
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems 
• Experience with setting up and troubleshooting Nginx or Ingress Nginx
• Hands-on production experience with Kafka, MongoDB, Amazon Redshift, BigQuery;  
• Expertise in tuning, performance, and guiding long-term strategy for self-hosted or  managed solutions a strong plus.  
• The exceptional communicator in and across teams, taking the lead. The exceptional  communicator in and across teams, taking the lead.  
• Evaluate and integrate AI-powered tools to streamline workflows and boost productivity.  

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products – 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.and downtime.

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 $150,000 - $200,000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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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  [email protected].

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.