Principal DevOps Engineer (US Citizen)
Palo Alto Networks3 days ago
USA (city not specified)Staff+
Base Salary
$147k - $238k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and govern global, multi-region cloud infrastructure using Terraform and modular Infrastructure as Code blueprints.
- Design secure, robust, and self-healing CI/CD workflows in partnership with engineering and pipeline teams.
- Drive GCP cloud performance, multi-zone reliability, cost optimization, and FinOps strategies.
- Advise product engineering teams on containerized, horizontally scalable, and highly observable service architectures.
- Lead escalation management for systemic outages, post-mortems, vulnerability identification, and architectural remediation.
- Build internal platforms, automated remediation frameworks, and intelligent auto-scaling solutions.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, define the DevOps technical roadmap, and mentor senior engineers.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Architecture, with 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 mastery of Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies including service meshes, ingress controllers, and advanced scheduling.
- High proficiency in Python or Go, advanced Linux internals, shell scripting, and scalable Terraform module design.
- 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, align distributed global teams, troubleshoot complex distributed systems, and make high-stakes architectural decisions autonomously.
Benefits
- The role is associated with a hybrid work arrangement, while most teams generally work from the office full time with flexibility when needed.
- Employee benefits are referenced in the posting, including potential restricted stock units and a bonus; compensation figures are excluded here.
Tech Stack
AWSGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonTerraform
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.