Principal DevOps Engineer (US Citizen)
Palo Alto Networks3 days ago
USA (city not specified)Staff+
Base Salary
$151k - $244k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and govern global, multi-region cloud infrastructure using Terraform and scalable infrastructure-as-code blueprints.
- Architect secure, robust, and self-healing enterprise CI/CD and continuous delivery workflows.
- Drive GCP performance, reliability, multi-zone architecture, and cost-efficiency optimization.
- Advise Product Engineering teams on containerization, horizontal scalability, observability, and application architecture.
- Lead systemic incident escalation, post-mortems, root-cause mitigation, and reliability governance.
- Build internal platforms, automated remediation frameworks, and intelligent auto-scaling solutions.
- Define the DevOps technical roadmap, evaluate emerging technologies, and mentor senior engineers.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or cloud architecture, including ownership of large-scale, business-critical production environments.
- Deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services, including complex networking, IAM governance, and multi-region architectures.
- Expert-level Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystem experience, including service meshes, ingress controllers, and advanced scheduling.
- Strong Python or Go skills, advanced Linux internals knowledge, shell scripting experience, and expert Terraform module design experience.
- Deep architectural understanding of enterprise CI/CD pipelines and GitOps methodologies.
- Experience designing platform-wide observability strategies with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and PagerDuty.
- Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, influence engineering directors, solve complex distributed-systems and infrastructure problems, and make high-stakes decisions autonomously.
Benefits
- Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
- The compensation package may include restricted stock units and a bonus, in addition to base salary.
Tech Stack
AWSGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonTerraform
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About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks builds cybersecurity products for enterprises and governments, including next-generation firewalls, cloud security (Prisma Cloud/Prisma Access), and SOC tools (Cortex). It sells subscriptions and appliances with cloud-delivered threat intelligence, securing networks, endpoints, and applications across data centers and public clouds. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker PANW.