Principal Automation Infrastructure Engineer CAS (Cortex Cloud)

Your Career 

At Palo Alto Networks we lead the way in cybersecurity innovation. Our Cloud Application Security (CAS) product offers a holistic solution to protect every stage of the software development lifecycle from code creation to cloud deployment. We deliver comprehensive end-to-end security by scanning everythingfrom Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and source code to open-source libraries version control systems and CI/CD pipelines. Through continuous risk management we offer a proactive approach to Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) ensuring the identification analysis and prioritization of security risks throughout the entire development cycle.

We are looking for a top-notch Principal Automation Engineer to drive our test efforts and automation infrastructure. You will be in charge of first and foremost product quality design and plan required quality assurance tests you will develop automation tests and needed infrastructure together with deployment to all known cloud providers using python and working closely with a development team to address issues that were discovered. Additionally you will be involved in developing test infrastructure for Unit-Tests Integration-Tests and more while providing the infrastructure as a service to the dev teams. The job is deeply hands-on and requires a deep understanding of the product and the environments it runs.

Your Impact 

• Work closely with our engineering teams to understand business requirements

• Own and develop test infrastructure used by dev teams while providing them with guidance and assistance for using it

• Design plan and implement automatic tests for our critical business paths

• Own and adjust our UI testing framework to support dev teams which are using it to develop end-to-end tests

• Own and improve peripheral tools for our quality efforts such as reporting investigation etc.

• Identifying reporting documenting and tracking defect/bug issues

• Investigate analyze and find the root causes for failed systems and software

• Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• At least 5  years of experience as a Automation Infrastructure Engineer

• Strong coding skills Experience in one of the following (or equivalent) languages - TypeScript / Python 

• Experience with cloud-native technologies like Docker Kubernetes etc

• Experience with CSPs such as GCP (advantage) AWS

• Experience with CI/CD pipeline development and usage

• Experience with process automation solutions and tools development - Advantage

• Experience with UI/Web automation testing - Advantage

• Experience with designing developing and implementing test/applicative frameworks from scratch

• Ability to learn new technologies super-fast

• A strong passion for product quality and continuous willingness to improve the product

Additional Information :

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyber attacks. We are constantly innovating challenging the way we and the industry think about cybersecurity. Our engineers dont 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.

Our Commitment

Were trailblazers that dream big take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant 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

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.

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Our Commitment

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant 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  .

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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time