Palo Alto Networks · 6 hours ago
Principal DevOps Engineer
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$147K/yr - $238K/yr
5+ years expPalo Alto Networks is dedicated to protecting our digital way of life through innovative technology. They are seeking a seasoned platformization and cloud automation engineer to design, develop, and deliver next-generation technologies within their IOT teams, focusing on scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
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Responsibilities
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
Set up processes like on-call rotations, Postmortems, and 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
Qualification
Required
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
3+ 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
Evaluate and integrate AI-powered tools to streamline workflows and boost productivity
Benefits
Restricted stock units
Bonus
Company
Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$65MKey Investors
Icon VenturesLehman HoldingsGlobespan Capital Partners
2012-07-20IPO
2008-11-03Series C· $10M
2008-08-18Series C· $27M
Leadership Team
Helmut Reisinger
CEO EMEA
Nikesh Arora
Chairman CEO
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