Principal Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps (Prisma AIRS)
Palo Alto Networks3 days ago
Base Salary
$156k - $253k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, configure, and maintain high-scale Kubernetes clusters on Google Cloud Platform with secure network isolation and optimized performance and resource utilization.
- Deploy, scale, and performance-tune GCP Bigtable and BigQuery for streaming telemetry and large-scale analytics.
- Design Infrastructure-as-Code solutions for deterministic global multi-region environments.
- Build and support CI/CD deployment pipelines, automated validation gates, and version-pinning configurations for platform microservices.
- Partner with data plane and data pipeline engineers to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize resource bounds for sub-millisecond data processing stability.
- Drive SRE practices through observability dashboards, metrics collection, proactive alerting, and reliability optimization.
Requirements
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Platform Engineering.
- Deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes/GKE, container runtime environments, and service mesh architectures.
- Extensive production experience with ArgoCD and GitLab CI/CD.
- Proficiency managing production cloud infrastructure with Terraform or similar Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
- Experience administering and performance-tuning GCP Bigtable and BigQuery in high-throughput environments.
- Strong programming or scripting skills in Python, Go, or Bash.
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or GCP Cloud Monitoring.
- Familiarity with cloud security compliance, IAM controls, and securing container workloads.
Benefits
- Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
- Compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus.
- Employee benefits are described in the employer’s benefits information.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
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.