Principal DevOps Engineer (Cortex)

NOTE: Due to government environments this team supports the role requires a US Citizen or Permanent Resident. 

Your Career

The Cortex team builds and delivers the industrys most advanced SecOps platform consisting of XSIAM XSOAR and XPANSE. As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be responsible for designing building and maintaining the infrastructure and automation that powers our large-scale cloud platform. You will work closely with engineering teams to enable fast and reliable software delivery optimize system performance and ensure seamless scalability.

This role requires a strong DevOps engineer who is passionate about automation cloud infrastructure observability and continuous integration/deployment. You will contribute to the evolution of our infrastructure by implementing best practices in configuration management cloud provisioning containerization and CI/CD pipelines.

Your Impact

• Cloud Infrastructure Architect deploy and manage cloud-native solutions in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to ensure scalability reliability and performance
• Automation & Infrastructure as Code Develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform automate configuration management with tools like Ansible and drive adoption of GitOps practices
• CI/CD Pipelines Build maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins GitLab CI or similar tools to enable rapid reliable software delivery
• Containerization & Orchestration Deploy and manage containerized workloads using Kubernetes (GKE preferred) and Docker ensuring resilience and security
• Monitoring & Performance Optimization Implement monitoring logging and alerting solutions to proactively identify and resolve performance issues
• Security & Compliance Ensure security best practices are followed across infrastructure networking and application deployment
• Collaboration Work closely with development teams to integrate DevOps practices troubleshoot production issues and improve operational efficiency
• On-Call Rotation Participate in on-call support to maintain platform reliability and resolve production incidents

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• 5 years of experience in DevOps Site Reliability Engineering or Cloud Infrastructure roles
• Strong cloud expertise in Google Cloud Platform (preferred) or AWS
• Infrastructure as Code Deep knowledge of Terraform Ansible or equivalent tools
• Proficiency in scripting/programming with Python Go or Bash
• Containerization & Kubernetes Experience managing large-scale Kubernetes environments and deploying workloads in GKE EKS or similar
• CI/CD & Automation Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins GitLab CI or ArgoCD
• Linux Administration Strong knowledge of Linux systems and shell scripting
• Networking & Security Understanding of cloud networking IAM firewalls and security best practices
• Experience troubleshooting production issues in high-scale environments
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced collaborative environment

Additional Information :

The Team

Our DevOps team is at the core of Cortexs cloud infrastructure enabling our engineering teams to build and deploy software at scale. We thrive on automation efficiency and reliability always pushing the boundaries of DevOps excellence.

If youre excited about building scalable infrastructure improving deployment workflows and driving DevOps culture we want to hear from you.

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 $147000/YR - $237500/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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Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.