Palo Alto Principal DevOps Engineer - IoT 

United States, California 

59506957

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• Work with development teams to ensure that applications have scalability and reliability built-in from day one- agile is second nature to you and you’re excited to work in scrum teams and represent the SRE perspective
• Design, review and enhance software architecture to improve scalability, service reliability, cost, and performance - you’ve helped create services that are critical to their customers’ success
• Deploy automation for provisioning and operating infrastructure at large scale. You are experienced in Infrastructure as Code concepts and have put them into production
• Partner with teams to improve CI/CD processes and technology - Helping teams in delivering value early is what you strive for
• Mentor members of the staff on large scale cloud deployments - you’re an expert indeploying in the cloud and can bring a teaching mindset to help others benefit from yourexperience
• Drive the adoption of observability practices and a data-driven mindset - you lovemetrics, graphs, and gaining a deep understanding of why things happen in a system, helping others gain visibility into the things they build
• Setup processes like on-call rotations, Postmortems, Run books to continue supporting the infrastructure owned by the SRE team while finding ways to reduce the time to resolution and improve the reliability of services
• Support, optimize and deploy mission critical, front-end and back-end production
• Improving site performance, monitoring, and overall stability of our infrastructure

Your Experience

• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 5+ years of industry experience in engineering
• Fluent Scripting skills preferably Python or Bash
• 3+ years of working with Microservices architectures on Kubernetes
• HandsOn experience with container native tools like Docker, Helm, Istio, Vault for managing workloads running in Kubernetes.
• Experience with public cloud (AWS or GCP/Google cloud or Azure) at medium to large scale
• HandsOn experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, etc.
• Proficient in CI/CD platforms like GitlabCI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, CircleCI etc.
• In-depth knowledge of operating systems (processes, threads, concurrency, etc)
• Implement and enforce network and cloud security best practices.
• Excellent experience working with Unix/Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond
• Drive enhancement of observability by implementing distributed tracing, logging standards, dashboard standardization, profiling, and other relevant practices to meet current Service Level Agreement (SLAs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
• HandOn experience with Monitoring tools - Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry etc.
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with setting up and troubleshooting Nginx or Ingress Nginx
• Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, Postgres tuning and performance a huge plus
• Lead the long-term strategy on critical components like Kafka, MongoDB, Postgres etc, evaluating options for either reliable self-hosted or managed solutions. HandOn production experience with at least one of these is required.
• Experience with data warehouse solutions (e.g., Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery).
• The exceptional communicator in and across teams, taking the lead. The exceptional communicator in and across teams, taking the lead.
• Evaluate and integrate AI-powered tools to streamline workflows and boost productivity.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $147000/YR - $237500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

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