DevOps Engineer (Cortex)

NOTE: This role requires a US Citizen. 

Your Career

The Cortex team builds and delivers the industrys most advanced SecOps platform including XSIAM XSOAR and XPANSE. As a Staff DevOps Engineer you will help build operate and evolve the infrastructure and automation that powers our large-scale cloud platform.

In this role youll work closely with senior DevOps engineers and software engineering teams to support reliable software delivery improve system performance and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure. Youll be hands-on with day-to-day operations while continuing to expand your ownership technical depth and understanding of large-scale production systems.

This position is ideal for an experienced DevOps engineer who enjoys automation cloud infrastructure and CI/CD and is ready to grow toward more advanced responsibilities. Youll contribute to improving existing systems by applying best practices in Infrastructure as Code configuration management containerization and observability.

Your Impact

• Cloud Infrastructure Build operate and maintain cloud-native infrastructure in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to support scalability reliability and performance

• Automation & Infrastructure as Code Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform assist with configuration management using tools like Ansible and follow GitOps-based workflows

• CI/CD Pipelines Support and improve CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins GitLab CI ArgoCD or similar tools to enable reliable software delivery

• Containerization & Orchestration Deploy and operate containerized workloads using Kubernetes (GKE preferred) and Docker following established reliability and security practices

• Monitoring & Performance Use monitoring logging and alerting tools to help identify troubleshoot and resolve performance or reliability issues

• Security & Compliance Apply security best practices across infrastructure networking and deployments working closely with security and platform teams

• Collaboration Partner with development teams to troubleshoot production issues improve developer workflows and support operational excellence

• On-Call Rotation Participate in on-call rotations and assist with incident response and post-incident reviews

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• 25 years of experience in DevOps Site Reliability Engineering or Cloud Infrastructure roles

• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (preferred) or AWS

• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible

• Experience scripting or automating tasks using Python Go or Bash

• Familiarity with Kubernetes and containerized workloads (GKE EKS or similar)

• Exposure to CI/CD tools such as Jenkins GitLab CI or ArgoCD

• Solid understanding of Linux systems and basic system administration

• Foundational knowledge of cloud networking IAM and security best practices

• Experience assisting with production troubleshooting and incident response

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 $126000/YR - $203500/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

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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.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time