Staff IT Systems Engineer (PKI platform)

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks is looking for a talented Staff Systems Engineer (PKI ) who will be responsible for build configuration and maintainability of our PKI platform using Infrastructure as Code. As senior technical staff you will support Tier3 engineering for Linux build and configuration automation with core focus on PKI domain and related technologies.

PKI infra provides critical services which enhance secure and trustworthy communications between applications services and users. The ideal candidate enjoys working in a fastpaced environment with highly innovative technologies. You will make a big impact in this highly visible role by building PKI as a service offering for our customers.

Your Impact 

• Implementing and supporting the PKI Linux infrastructure as code where our globally distributed customerfacing PKI platform runs. 
• Provision configure & support resilient hybrid cloud deployment architecture using the automation framework and make it more efficient
• Manage scalability capacity planning redundancy and resiliency.
• Maintain service availability and performance SLAs based on business and product requirements.
• Contribute to documentation related to design deployment validation operations and DR/BCP.
• Design proactive service monitoring alerting and trend analysis of underlying infrastructure and support the operations team in implementation.

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• 810 years of handson Linux experience in managing and supporting Linux server infrastructure in RHEL/Ubuntu.
• Strong GCP compute and kubernetes engine knowledge
• Capability to automate infrastructure related processes using programming languages such as Python JavaScript/TypeScript Golangt etc.
• Experience with programming frameworks such as Flask NestJS Gin etc.
• Understanding/experience working with microservice patterns such orchestration based Sagas using tools such as Conductor
• Experience with Linux and container infrastructure CI/CD platform
• Create and maintain operational runbooks.
• Experience in configuring and supporting HashiCorp Vault
• Design and performance tuning for Linux infrastructure and API indepth knowledge of multitier web applications.
• Solid understanding of API infrastructure optimization and security.
• Fluent in Linux security & system hardening vulnerability management & patching process.
• Familiarity with CIS compliance levels.
• Must be comfortable with Ansible Chef or similar configuration management tool to manage infrastructure as code and source code control systems such as GIT or SVN.
• Ability to work crossfunctionally across multiple business units such as product development and engineering
• Experience with configuring and supporting Certificate Authority OCSP and HSM solutions
• Understanding of NIST IEEE FIPS security standards. NIST 180016 NIST 80052 RFC5280..
• Experience with certificate request protocols SCEP ACME CMP or similar
• Participate in 24x7 oncall rotation
• Must be able to collaborate with a global team spread across multiple time zones 
• Strong technical writing skills to support required documentation
• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science Information Technology or technical stream with the equivalent combination of work experience required.

Additional Information :

The Team

This is not a traditional IT department!  We partner closely with our security engineering and product teams to secure our state of the art cyber security solutions

Working at a hightech cybersecurity company within Information Technology is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Youll be joined with the brightest minds in technology creating building and supporting tools that enable our global teams on the front line of defense against cyberattacks. Were joined by one mission but driven by the impact of that mission and what it means to protect our way of life in the digital age. Join a dynamic and fastpaced team that feels excitement at the prospect of a challenge and feels a thrill at resolving technical gaps that inhibit productivity.

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.

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