Senior Principal DevOps Engineer (Cortex Cloud)
Palo Alto Networks5 days ago
Tel Aviv-Yafo, IsraelStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define technical strategy, architecture, and standards for massive-scale, resilient distributed systems and global Kubernetes infrastructure.
- Build observability, monitoring, self-healing, and AI-powered operational workflows using generative AI, autonomous agents, and LLM-based tools.
- Lead GitOps and infrastructure-as-code strategies using FluxCD and Terraform.
- Build platforms and automation that improve developer experience, accelerate delivery, and reduce operational friction and costs.
- Embed security-by-design and compliance principles into platform architecture.
- Lead cross-team technical initiatives, establish roadmaps, drive stakeholder consensus, and mentor Senior and Staff engineers.
- Design, build, and deploy highly available cloud platforms and custom infrastructure tooling or services.
- Manage and troubleshoot Linux systems, networking, performance, containers, and potentially stateful distributed workloads.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive experience in DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering, including significant principal, staff, technical leadership, or architectural experience.
- Proven experience designing, building, and deploying large-scale, highly available distributed systems and cloud platforms from scratch.
- Experience designing and integrating AI-driven systems, autonomous agents, and LLM-based tools into engineering workflows.
- Expert proficiency with GCP or an equivalent major cloud provider and deep architectural experience with Terraform.
- Advanced expertise scaling Kubernetes, extending it with custom operators, and automating complex operational logic across virtualized and containerized environments.
- Advanced Python or Go coding and automation skills, with the ability to build custom tooling and services.
- Mastery of Linux systems, including kernel tuning, advanced networking, and performance troubleshooting.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-team technical initiatives, define technical roadmaps, and drive consensus with stakeholders.
- Exceptional communication skills for explaining complex architectural and AI workflow concepts to technical and executive audiences.
- Preferred experience managing and scaling stateful workloads and distributed databases such as Cassandra, ScyllaDB, MemSQL, or MySQL in containerized environments.
- Preferred experience contributing to open-source infrastructure projects or presenting at major technology conferences.
Benefits
- Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
- Palo Alto Networks provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs.
- The company is an equal opportunity employer committed to diverse and inclusive teams.
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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.