Senior Staff DevOps Engineer (Cortex XDR)

We are looking for a motivated Senior SRE Engineer to join the Cortex Devops Production group based at our India development ( IDC ) center. You will work with the Cortex Cyber Security Research group, planning, executing, and reporting on infrastructure and code projects, along with high-pressure production maintenance.

• You will take full end-to-end responsibility for the production environment of our SaaS product deployed on GCP
• You will build tools for the automatic remediation of known issues
• You will develop Infrastructure-as-code which will be used to orchestrate production and dev environments
• You will design, build, maintain, and scale production services with thousands of Kubernetes clusters
• You will secure the production environments and add in new security tools and features both internal Palo Alto Networks and other market-leading technologies
• You will work closely with development teams to design and enhance software architecture to improve scalability, service reliability, cost, and performance
• You will build CI pipelines and automation processes
• Participate in the on-call rotation supporting the applications and infrastructure
• You will research cutting-edge technologies and deploy them to production

Qualifications:

• 4+ years as DevOps Engineer (or equal role) with a passion for technology and strong motivation and responsibility for high reliability and service level
• Proficiency with code language (Python / Go - preferred)
• High proficiency with Linux
• Proficiency in the cloud (GCP - preferred)
• Proficiency with Terraform and HashiCorp tools
• High proficiency with virtualized and containerized environments (Kubernetes and Docker)
• Proficiency with CI/CD and Configuration Management (Jenkins preferred)
• Proficiency with DB such as Cassandra, ScyllaDB, MemSQL, MySQL - An advantage(Optional)
• Experience with working with internal and external customers and stakeholders
• Managing a high-scale production environment
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to work and coordinate between multiple teams
• Ability to grasp new technologies quickly and prioritize and multitask on multiple responsibilities

Palo Alto Networks is the cybersecurity partner of choice, dedicated to protecting our digital way of life. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure. We are a company built on innovation, collaboration, and execution, fostering an inclusive environment for all employees. We offer benefits like our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account and focus on employee development and well-being.