Palo Alto Principal Site Reliability Engineer Prisma Access 

United States, California 

914469046

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

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks runs a large infrastructure and is one of the biggest GCP customers. As a Principal SRE, you'll be at the forefront of building and maintaining highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure within a FedRAMP compliant environment. You'll drive operational excellence, champion SRE best practices, and work collaboratively to ensure our systems are robust and performant. This includes automation, architecture, performance, observability, troubleshooting, security, and reliability.

Our Infrastructure Platform stack includes Terraform, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, GitOps, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Docker, GCP, Backstage, MySQL, PagerDuty, FireHydrant, Python, Bash, Java, NodeJS and Go.

Your Impact

• Design, build, and operate reliable, secure Cloud infrastructure across multi-cloud environments
• Ensure applications are production-ready, scalable, and resilient, collaborating closely with developers, researchers, data scientists, and security experts
• Develop expertise in new technologies and rapidly integrate them into our existing infrastructure, embracing continuous learning and the adoption of AI tools
• Develop tools and automation frameworks, championing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Monitoring as Code (MaC) principles
• Automate robust deployments and orchestrate end-to-end monitoring and alerting solutions
• Participate in on-call rotations with SRE and Dev teams to support critical business and production systems
• Lead root cause analysis of critical business and production issues, driving improvements and preventing recurrence
• Contribute to the success of SRE and DevOps initiatives, aligning technical decisions with business goals and understanding their impact

Your Experience

• Must be a US Citizen to be considered
• 7+ years of experience in Infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps roles required
• BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience required
• 4+ years of experience with AWS and GCP and expertise in their architecture, services, advanced cloud networking, and PKI concepts
• Expertise in troubleshooting and resolving cloud infrastructure and service issues, identifying root cause and devising effective solutions for high volume transactions
• Proficiency with Python and shell scripting for automation; Golang is a plus
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and Helm, leveraging AI tools for development
• Solid experience with Kubernetes, container networking, and container workloads
• Strong Linux administration skills
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, GitOps principles, GitLab, and Jenkins
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively and rally support across teams
• Self-disciplined, self-managed, and highly driven with a strong sense of ownership and urgency
• Ability to adapt quickly to evolving cloud technologies, security threats, and advancements through continuous learning
• Able to understand and address customer needs effectively, and provide RCA to customers
• Understanding how technical decisions impact the business and aligning cloud operations with business goals

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.and downtime.

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.