Palo Alto Staff Systems Engineer PKI platform 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

692738929

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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.
• Strong GCP compute and kubernetes engine knowledge
• 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
• Experience with Linux and container infrastructure CI/CD platform
• Create and maintain operational runbooks.
• 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
• Experience with configuring and supporting Certificate Authority, OCSP, and HSM solutions
• Understanding of NIST, IEEE, FIPS security standards. NIST 1800-16, NIST 800-52, RFC5280,..
• Experience with certificate request protocols, SCEP, ACME, CMP, or similar
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation
• 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.

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