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Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.
Who We Are
In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!
Job Summary
The Team
Engineering - Our world-class Software Engineering team is responsible for building products and services that protect our customers from the world’s most significant cybersecurity threats. The team is passionate about building solutions that are performant, scalable, and elegant. Our engineers work on a wide range of projects, from developing new features for our next-generation firewalls to building cloud-based security services. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about building great products and who are excited to work on some of the most challenging problems in the industry.
Job Summary
We are looking for Sr Staff DevOps Engineer to join our Cloud-NGFW engineering team. You will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems and services, which process trillions of events daily to deliver real-time protection to global enterprises. As Sr Staff SRE/DevOps Engineer, you will bridge the gap between software development and operations, applying engineering practices to solve operational challenges at a massive scale.
Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain scalable, highly available, and secure infrastructure to support our global security services.
Spearhead the transition to autonomous operational processes by developing and implementing infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices.
Define and govern SLIs/SLOs/SLAs to ensure rigorous service standards and lead the 'Error Budget' conversation to balance feature velocity with system stability.
Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines that empower developers to ship code multiple times a day with high confidence and reliability.
Implement and enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to improve system visibility and proactively reduce Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR).
Drive a culture of continuous improvement through blameless postmortems and root cause analysis, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement preventative measures.
Automate repetitive operational tasks using scripting and configuration management tools to improve efficiency and reduce manual error.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering, with a Bachelor's degree.
Strong proficiency in Linux/Unix systems administration, internals, networking, and troubleshooting.
Expertise in at least one programming/scripting language (e.g., Python, Go, Bash).
Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure) and its core services.
Proven experience with containerization and orchestration technologies.
Demonstrable experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab Actions, Jenkins).
Strong hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
A proven ability to dissect and debug complex distributed systems handling high-volume, mission-critical transactions.
Experience with high-throughput environments and large-scale data processing systems.
Advanced knowledge of networking concepts and security best practices.
Our Commitment
We’re trailblazers that dream big, 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.
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