Sr Staff DevOps Platform Engineer

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we're united by a shared mission-to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you're in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That's why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it's needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Summary

We are looking for a bright, talented Sr Staff DevOps Platform Engineer to join a team of highly energized and professional engineers working on mission-critical systems in the red-hot cybersecurity industry. Focused on development flow productivity, building application infrastructures and tools, with huge challenges related to hyper-growth of engineering and application scale.

• As part of your role, you will design, implement and deploy products and infrastructures which will directly increase our stability and quality, while reducing our time to market. Design and develop solution-oriented enterprise DevOps Platforms and tools
• Create solutions to increase R&D velocity, reduce lead time and improve overall product quality.
• Plan, Design, and develop the company SAAS infrastructure, operation engine, and deployment strategy.
• Develop and adopt new technologies aim at improving our overall CI/CD pipelines.
• Platform and service troubleshooting across various applications, domains, and platforms
• Introduce Security into both the CI and CD pipelines utilizing DevSecOps shift left approach.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience working as a Software, DevOps, or infrastructure developer.
• Significant development experience with the following: Python, Groovy, Bash, PowerShell
• Deep knowledge and experience in cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Experience with Containers and Orchestrators (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, etc.)
• Experience with CI/CD Tools and Configuration Management Systems (e.g. Jenkins, Git, Ansible, Terraform, etc.)
• Experienced with building the full application release cycle (CI/CD).
• Experience in creation of highly automated Infrastructures - as code
• Knowledge of operating system administration
• Excellent design and analytical skills
• Creative troubleshooting skills and out-of-the-box thinking.
• Know your way around the open-source community
• Strong communication skills, Team player
• Open-minded, Creative out of the box thinker.
• A thorough and methodical approach to any task, ability to plan, conduct, prioritize, track and measure processes
• Decision-making skills: taking into account both architectural and business considerations, at times with incomplete information.
• Strong ability to use new technologies and understand them in depth through rapid self-learning.
• Proactive by nature; internal drive for excellence and improvement
• Highly motivated, autonomous
• Fluent in English, good writing skills

• BA in Computer Science or MAMRAM graduate
• Experience in testing methodologies and developing tests (e.g Unit tests, integration tests, system tests)
• Strong networking foundations (TCP/IP, DNS, Network Protocols, Routing)
• Security principles and techniques (Risk management, Threat modeling, secure configuration)
• Database usage experience and understanding
• Experience with Agile development and practices
• Cloud Solution Architect Certificate