Palo Alto Staff Systems Engineer Linux Administration PKI 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

127480063

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Your Career

Palo Alto Networks is looking for a talented Staff Systems Engineer (PKI ) who will be responsible for build, configuration, and maintainability of our PKI platform using Infrastructure as Code. As senior technical staff, you will support Tier-3 engineering for Linux build and configuration automation with core focus on PKI domain and related technologies.

Your Impact

• Implementing and supporting the PKI Linux infrastructure as code where our globally distributed customer-facing PKI platform runs.
• Provision, configure & support resilient hybrid cloud deployment architecture using the automation framework and make it more efficient
• Manage scalability, capacity planning, redundancy, and resiliency.
• Maintain service availability and performance SLAs based on business and product requirements.
• Contribute to documentation related to design, deployment, validation, operations and DR/BCP.
• Design proactive service monitoring, alerting and trend analysis of underlying infrastructure, and support the operations team in implementation.

Your Experience

• 8-10 years of hands-on Linux experience in managing and supporting Linux server infrastructure in RHEL/Ubuntu.
• 5+ years experience with configuring and supporting Certificate Authority, OCSP, and HSM solutions
  - Preferred EJBCA and Thales
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation
• Capability to automate infrastructure related processes using programming languages such as Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Golangt, etc.
• Experience with programming frameworks such as Flask, NestJS, Gin, etc.
• Understanding/experience working with microservice patterns such orchestration based Sagas using tools such as Conductor
• Understanding of NIST, IEEE, FIPS security standards. NIST 1800-16, NIST 800-52, RFC5280,..
• Experience with certificate request protocols, SCEP, ACME, CMP, or similar
• In-depth knowledge of Certificate Lifecycle Management
• Experience with Linux and container infrastructure CI/CD platform
• Create and maintain operational runbooks.
• Strong GCP compute and kubernetes engine knowledge
• Experience in configuring and supporting HashiCorp Vault
• Design and performance tuning for Linux infrastructure and API, in-depth knowledge of multi-tier web applications.
• Solid understanding of API infrastructure optimization and security.
• Fluent in Linux security & system hardening, vulnerability management & patching process.
• Familiarity with CIS compliance levels.
• Must be comfortable with Ansible, Chef or similar configuration management tool to manage infrastructure as code and source code control systems such as GIT or SVN.
• Ability to work cross-functionally across multiple business units, such as product development and engineering
• Must be able to collaborate with a global team spread across multiple time zones
• Strong technical writing skills to support required documentation
• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or technical stream with the equivalent combination of work experience required.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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