Sr Principal DevOps Engineer (Prisma AIRS)
Palo Alto Networks3 days ago
Base Salary
$178k - $287k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and evangelize an Internal Developer Platform for Prisma AIRS engineering teams.
- Drive GitOps and progressive delivery adoption using automated, safe, and observable deployment pipelines.
- Set Kubernetes and GCP cloud-native engineering standards across the organization.
- Architect and operate highly available, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure.
- Manage GPU/TPU allocation, spot-instance fleets, and cluster usage dashboards.
- Develop automation, self-service tooling, and observability frameworks to reduce engineering toil.
- Set technical direction for shared platform services and infrastructure architecture.
- Mentor engineers and promote high standards for automation, reliability, and security.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Platform Engineering.
- Extensive hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale cloud infrastructure.
- Expertise with Infrastructure as Code and cloud platforms, especially Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes Config Connector or comparable tools.
- Deep production expertise with Kubernetes and typed Python-based automation and platform tooling.
- Extensive experience with GitOps and CI/CD, including Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, and GitLab CI.
- Hands-on experience building infrastructure, cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes-native systems, Internal Developer Platforms, or Terraform providers.
- Strong debugging skills across Linux internals, networking, application performance, and distributed systems.
- Preferred experience with MLOps, GPU-accelerated inference, model-serving infrastructure, data and feature pipelines, ML security, governance, and LLMOps.
- Preferred experience with Prometheus, Grafana, GCP Cloud Monitoring, cloud security compliance, IAM controls, and container security.
- Preferred BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
- The compensation package may include restricted stock units and a bonus.
Tech Stack
Argo CDAWSBashGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaHelmKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonTerraform
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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.