Sr Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Prisma Access)

This role requires US Citizenship. 

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks runs a large infrastructure and is one of the biggest GCP customers. As a Principal SRE youll be at the forefront of building and maintaining highly reliable scalable and secure cloud infrastructure within a FedRAMP compliant environment. Youll drive operational excellence champion SRE best practices and work collaboratively to ensure our systems are robust and performant. This includes automation architecture performance observability troubleshooting security and reliability. 

Our Infrastructure Platform stack includes Terraform Kubernetes GitLab CI/CD GitOps Prometheus Grafana Loki Docker GCP Backstage MySQL PagerDuty FireHydrant Python Bash Java NodeJS and Go. 

Your Impact

• Design build and operate reliable secure Cloud infrastructure across multi-cloud environments for our federal customers.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to ensure applications are production-ready scalable secure and resilient.
• Develop expertise in new technologies embracing continuous learning and the adoption of AI tools.
• Develop tools and automation frameworks championing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Monitoring as Code (MaC) principles.
• Automate robust deployments and orchestrate end-to-end monitoring and alerting solutions.
• Participate in 24/7/365 on-call rotations including shift and weekend to support critical business operations and production systems and for incident response.
• Lead root cause analysis of critical issues driving improvements and preventing recurrence.
• Champion the success of SRE and DevOps initiatives aligning technical decisions with business goals.

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• Must be a US Citizen to be considered.
• 5 years of experience in Infrastructure SRE or DevOps roles.
• BS or MS in Computer Science a related field or equivalent professional experience.
• 4 years of experience with AWS and GCP and expertise in their architecture services and PKI concepts  for cloud security.
• Expert troubleshooting skills to resolve cloud infrastructure and service issues effectively identifying root cause and devising effective solutions.
• Proficiency in automation using Python and shell scripting; Golang is a plus.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and Helm leveraging AI tools for development.
• Solid experience with Kubernetes container networking and container workloads.
• Strong Linux administration skills.
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines GitOps principles and tooling like GitLab and Jenkins.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively to drive outcomes.
• Self-disciplined self-managed and highly driven with a strong sense of ownership and urgency.
• Ability to adapt quickly to evolving cloud technologies security threats and advancements through continuous learning.
• Effectively address customer needs and provide clear Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to customers.
• A deep understanding of how technical decisions impact the business and an ability to align cloud operations with business goals.

Additional Information :

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. 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.

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 $120000 - $200000/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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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 :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time