Palo Alto Staff Site Reliability Engineer Linux 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

575074429

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Your Impact

• Implementing and supporting the Linux infrastructure as code where our globally distributed customer-facing platform runs.

• Provision, configure & support resilient hybrid cloud deployment architecture using the automation framework and make it more efficient

• Manage Linux infrastructure CI/CD platform, work with other SREs in deploying and maintaining automation framework, capacity planning, create and review PKI operational runbooks.

• 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.

• Build and operate compute fabric for 1000s of VMs, Kubernetes Clusters. Develop scripts, build tools and write code to automate routine tasks.

• Provide technical support to platform users

• Respond to security implementation and audits of the environment.

• Plan maintenance windows, write up change requests, present technical updates.

• Participate in On-Call support including participating in RCA as required.

Your Experience

• Strong hands-on Linux experience in managing and supporting Linux server infrastructure in CentOS/RHEL/Ubuntu.

• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or technical stream with the equivalent combination of work experience required.

• Design and performance tuning for Linux infrastructure and API, in-depth knowledge of multi-tier web applications.

• Experience in developing and managing APIs, understanding of API infrastructure optimization and security.

• In-depth knowledge of Certificate Lifecycle Management

• 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.

• Passion, drive, energy, a sense of humour and a great attitude!

• 6+ years of relevant experience, Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

• Experience with administration and orchestration of cloud computing (AWS, GCP, etc.) running virtual or container environments.

• Good user and admin Linux skills (Ubuntu a plus).Experience with virtual networking.

• Working experience with IaC tools like Terraform and Ansible. Knowledge of Python and shell scripting.

• Experience with CI/CD development using platforms like - Jenkins, Harness, Artifactory.

• Solid problem solving, troubleshooting, critical thinking, communication, and teamwork skills.

• Passion for automation and monitoring instrumentation in the code.

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