Palo Alto DevOps Engineer Cortex Research 

Israel, Tel Aviv District, Tel Aviv-Yafo 

75532934

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Your Career

As a Staff DevOps Engineer supporting our Research Group, you will lead all DevOps and infrastructure initiatives that empower our researchers to move quickly, securely, and reliably. You will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the group’s cloud environments, ensuring scalability, stability, and performance across a wide range of experimental and production workloads.

You’ll serve as the primary point of contact between the Research Group and other critical stakeholders—including Security, Networking, Compliance, and Platform teams—ensuring that research projects align with organizational standards while still enabling innovation at a rapid pace.

Your Impact

• Own and evolve the Research Group’s infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, enabling reproducible, automated, and scalable experimentation
• Partner with security and compliance teams to enforce best practices around data governance, access controls, and regulatory requirements
• Collaborate with networking and platform engineers to integrate research workloads into the broader company ecosystem
• Mentor engineers and researchers on DevOps best practices, helping to instill a culture of operational excellence in the research domain
• Define and implement standards for infrastructure-as-code, observability, monitoring, and resource optimization tailored to research use cases
• Balance technical depth with cross-functional collaboration

Your Experience

• 3+ years of experience supporting systems in cloud environments
• Strong hands-on experience with Linux systems and networking fundamentals
• Solid experience with cloud platforms (GCP preferred)
• Hands-on experience running Kubernetes workloads
• Expertise with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code principles
• Strong scripting skills (e.g., Python, Bash) to build automation and tooling
• Experience leading cross-team projects
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Experience with GCP Composer/Apache AirFlow - advantage

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