Principal DevOps Engineer (DLP)

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks DLP (Data Loss Prevention) group is looking for a seasoned DevOps engineer to design develop and deliver next-generation technologies within our DLP teams. We are looking for leaders who take ownership of their area of focus and who are driven to solve challenging technical problems using best practices and state of the art technologies. Collaboration and teamwork are at the foundation of our culture and we need engineers who can communicate at a high level and work well with others towards achieving a common goal.

If you have the passion to solve challenging infrastructure and DevOps engineering problems if you are interested in pushing your boundaries as an engineer and working at the cusp of delivering Data Security at huge scale and state of the art technologies within a quality focussed dynamic engineering culture talk to us.

Your Impact

• Work with development teams to ensure that applications have scalability and reliability built-in from day one- agile is second nature to you and youre excited to work in scrum teams and represent the SRE perspective

• Design and enhance software architecture to improve scalability service reliability cost and performance- youve helped create services that are critical to their customers success 

• Deploy automation for provisioning and operating infrastructure at large scale. You are experienced in 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- youre 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 

• Setup processes like on-call rotations Postmortems runbooks 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

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field.

• 8 years of related experience in engineering.

• Experience in driving development team on service quality and service resilience; set up strong SLA SLO KPI.

• Fluent Scripting skills preferably Python or Bash

• 5 years of working with Microservices architectures on Kubernetes

• HandsOn experience with container native tools like Helm Istio Vault for managing workloads running in Kubernetes.

• Experience with public cloud (AWS or GCP/Google cloud or Azure) at medium to large scale 

• Proficient in CI/CD platforms like GitlabCI Jenkins CircleCI  etc

• In-depth knowledge of operating systems (processes threads concurrency etc)

• Excellent experience working with Unix/Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond

• Drive enhancement of observability by implementing distributed tracing logging standards dashboard standardization profiling and other relevant practices to meet current Service Level Objectives (SLOs).

• HandOn experience with Monitoring tools - Prometheus Grafana etc.

• Expertise in designing analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems

• Experience with MongoDB ElasticSearch Kafka Postgres tuning and performance a huge plus

• Lead the long-term strategy on critical components like Kafka ElasticSearch Postgres  MongoDB etc evaluating options for either reliable self-hosted or managed solutions. HandOn production experience with at least one of these is required.

• The exceptional communicator in and across teams taking the lead 

Additional Information :

The Team

Our engineering team is provided with an unrivaled opportunity to build the products and practices that will support our company growth over the next decade defining the cybersecurity industry as we know it. If you see the potential of how incredible people products can transform a business this is the team for you. If you dont wait for directions instead identifying new features and opportunities we have to just get better this is your new career.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $0 - $0/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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