Palo Alto Principal Systems Administrator ASIC/FPGA NetSec 

United States, California 

283653436

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

Your Career

As a Systems Administrator in the ASIC / FPGA team you will interface with engineering teams
regularly to help build and maintain a world-class semiconductor development environment.
You will work with multiple ASIC and FPGA engineering teams as well as IT and Infosec to build
and improve our infrastructure. You have a broad reach of knowledge spanning storage,
virtualization, and compute, and can communicate verbally and in writing effectively.

Your Impact

● Design, build and operate engineering development infrastructure to enable our ASIC
and FPGA engineering teams
● Support and improve the services on which our ASIC/FPGA engineering department
depends
● Engage with engineering teams to ensure they have the infrastructure to enable the
development of first-class ASICs and FPGAs
● Define and improve end-to-end monitoring of systems and applications used by our
ASIC and FPGA engineering teams
● Identify and drive opportunities to improve systems and automation opportunities for
system and service deployment, management, and visibility
● Drive root cause analysis of critical business and production issues
● Work cross-functionally with Engineering teams on operational readiness
● Manage the day-to-day needs and requests from our ASIC and FPGA engineering users
● Perform upgrades to servers and services on a regular basis

Your Experience

● Strong experience administrating production UNIX/Linux environments
● Broad experience supporting and maintaining common Linux/Unix applications and
services, as well as a solid understanding of DNS, DHCP, LDAP, NIS,NFS, AutoFS,
PXE, SNMP, SSH, HTTP/S, and NTP
● Working experience with system orchestration tools (SALT, Chef, Puppet, etc)
● Working experience in monitoring systems (Nagios, ELK, Prometheus, etc)
● BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience
● Experience with shell scripting, interpreted, or compiled language such as Bash, Perl,
Ruby, Python, Go, C, or C++
● Experience with common version control software such as Git, CVS, SVN, or Perforce
● Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, communication, and teamwork skills
● Excellent written and verbal communication, able to collaborate and rally support
● Excellent documentation skills
● Self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated and strong sense of ownership, urgency,
and drive

● Passion for automation and monitoring instrumentation in the code
● Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well in a team
● Passionate to learn, understand, and dissect new technology stack quickly on own
● Experience in Atlassian Software desired
● Experience in storage administration desired (SAN & NAS)
● Familiarity with containerization

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.

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 $180000 - $200000/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.