Palo Alto Senior Platform Engineer Cortex XDR 

Israel, Tel Aviv District, Tel Aviv-Yafo 

840839590

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

Your Career

As a Platform engineer you will play a pivotal role in enhancing our development and automation experience by pushing forward modern automation approaches, eliminating manual efforts and introducing new development operations for continuous integration, scale & durability using advanced cloud services. Your expertise will be used in areas such as infrastructure development, cloud based automation, serverless infrastructure, automation as a service, providing technical guidance, and pushing infrastructure\configuration as a code and GitOps approach across the development departments.

To succeed in this role, you should have a strong foundation in modern cloud based automation methodologies and a comprehensive understanding of industry best practices, especially in redundancy and scalability of large systems and the ability to control them via SCM based declarative configs. You should be familiar with modern public clouds approaches and serverless based architectures, including virtualization containers and container based orchestration including multiple Kubernetes based deployments. You should be comfortable engaging in complex technical discussions and advocating for optimal solutions in a fast-paced growing environment as part of our quest for continuous improvement.

Your Impact

• Utilize modern technologies including serverless cloud services, Kubernetes, Terraform, among others, and use them all in an infrastructure/configuration as a code GItOps approach to manage everything via source code and continuous integration processes
• Design and implement (hands on) the next generation of platforms, automation frameworks, SDKs, and tools to be used across our entire R&D group, and be part of our infrastructure transition to the cloud
• Develop and maintain a cloud based test execution system, that supports parallel executions on multiple operating systems and multiple cloud providers and at a very large scale, and by so helping reduce the amount of effort required to perform automatic testing and manual testing, and reduce time to market
• Provide tools, systems and simulators for scaling up all lifecycle phases of our products and services including cross company and third party integrations and frameworks to be used in high scale
• Introduce progress and help revolutionize our operations and lay the foundation for innovation and growth

Your Experience

• At least 4 years of hands-on experience as one of the following - Platform/InfraOps Engineer, DevOps , Cloud Infrastructure Engineer or equivalent
• Hands-on experience working with cloud services in big public Clouds (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Experience with designing and implementing cloud based infrastructure (especially serverless components), alongside using infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and Pulumi to automatically build and maintain the provisioned cloud infrastructure
• Strong programming skills in Python (or another high level language), with vast experience in Object-Oriented Programming, including Design Patterns, Algorithms and Data Structures
• Strong experience with containerization technologies (docker, containerd) and orchestration , especially with various Kubernetes deployments, both self-managed and cloud managed deployments
• Strong experience with SCM methodologies (especially Git) and SCM integration workflows
• Experience with implementing and maintaining Continuous Integration pipelines and flows, and familiarity with CI tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Gitlab Pipelines or similar build servers

Nice to have

• Computer Science B.Sc. or equivalent education or equivalent military experience
• Strong experience with scripting (Bash/Groovy) and automation tools (like Ansible)
• Security background in general and security programs knowledge in particular
• Proven experience in building or maintaining automation frameworks for large scales,
• and experience with provisioning and managing large scales of Virtual Machines in parallel
• Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK etc.
• Experience with relational (SQL) and non-relational databases, including backup & recovery

We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

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