Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer, you will be part of a team supporting the services running on this infrastructure. This includes automation, architecture, performance, observability, troubleshooting, security, and reliability.
Our Infrastructure Platform stack includes Terraform, Kubernetes, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Docker, GCP, AWS, Vault, Kafka, MySQL, Python, Bash, and Go.
Your Impact
● Contribute to the success of SRE and DevOps
● Develop expertise in new technologies
● Work with developers, researchers, data scientists, and security experts
● Design, build and operate reliable, secure Cloud infrastructure
● Ensure that applications are production-ready, scalable, and reliable
● Develop tools and automation frameworks
● Automate robust deployment of robust services
● Orchestrate end-to-end monitoring and alerting
● Participate with SRE and Dev teams in the on-call rotation● Lead root cause analysis of critical business and production issues
Qualifications
● 10+ years as an engineer in Infrastructure, Operations, DevOps, or System Engineering
● 10+ years building high availability, scalable cloud native applications on AWS or GCP
● BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience or equivalent military experience required
● Expertise in configuration management with a framework such as Ansible, Terraform, Helm
● Expertise in infrastructure automation tasks using Python and shell scripting ● Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or DevOps
● Expertise in public or private cloud
● Solid experience in Kubernetes and containers
● Linux administration, internals, and network troubleshooting
● Proficiency with programming languages like Python, Java, Golang, and shell scripting to automate tasks
● Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab and ArgoCD preferred
● Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot complex distributed systems handling high volume transactions
● Excellent written and verbal communication, able to collaborate and rally support
● Self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
● Passion for infrastructure and monitoring as code
●Ready to understand and dissect new technology stacks quickly
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/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
$151,600.00 – $245,300.00/yr
Our Commitment
We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email protected].
Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.








