Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.
Who We Are
In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!
We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.
Your Career
Palo Alto Networks runs a large infrastructure and is one of the largest GCP customers. As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer, you will be part of a team supporting the services running on this infrastructure for Sovereign Cloud. This includes automation, architecture, performance, observability, troubleshooting, security, and reliability.
Our Infrastructure Platform stack includes Terraform, Kubernetes, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Docker, GCP, AWS, Vault, Kafka, MySQL, Python, Bash, and Go.
Your Impact
Contribute to the success of SRE and DevOps
Develop expertise in new technologies
Work with developers, researchers, data scientists, and security experts
Design, build and operate reliable, secure Cloud infrastructure
Ensure that applications are production-ready, scalable, and reliable
Develop tools and automation frameworks
Automate robust deployment of robust services
Orchestrate end-to-end monitoring and alerting
Participate in on-call rotations to support critical business and production systems.
Lead root cause analysis of critical business and production issues
Qualifications
Your Experience
7+ years as an engineer in Infrastructure, Operations, DevOps, or System Engineering
7+ years building high availability, scalable cloud native applications on AWS or GCP
BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience or equivalent military experience required
Expertise in configuration management with a framework such as Ansible, Terraform, Helm
Expertise in infrastructure automation tasks using Python and shell scripting
Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or DevOps
Expertise in public or private cloud
Solid experience in Kubernetes and containers
Linux administration, internals, and network troubleshooting
Proficiency with programming languages like Python, Java, Golang, and shell scripting to automate tasks
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab and ArgoCD preferred
Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot complex distributed systems handling high volume transactions
Excellent written and verbal communication, able to collaborate and rally support
Self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
Passion for infrastructure and monitoring as code
Ready to understand and dissect new technology stacks quickly
Our Commitment
We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com
Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the world's greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.
