Our MissionAt 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 AreIn 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 SummaryYour Career The cloud security platform empowers teams through automation and security-as-code. We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, scale, and secure our global infrastructure while setting the standard for performance, reliability, and engineering excellence across the organization.
Your Impact- Architect, implement, and optimize scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure solutions for enterprise environments.
- Take full end-to-end ownership of infrastructure initiatives, driving tasks from strategic conception, implementation, and QA, all the way through to production deployment.
- Manage complex production environments and execute seamless production upgrades at scale, ensuring zero-downtime and high availability.
- Drive cloud cost optimization, implementing strategies to maximize resource efficiency and reduce infrastructural overhead without compromising performance.
- Champion and implement AI initiatives and Agentic solutions to continuously enhance automation, operational efficiency, and infrastructure intelligence.
- Establish enterprise-grade reliability by defining and enforcing SLOs/SLIs, utilizing modern monitoring ecosystems, and leading incident response strategies.
- Spearhead the integration of advanced security measures, enforcing zero-trust architectures and championing security-as-code principles.
- Mentor and elevate the broader engineering team, establishing cross-departmental standards for infrastructure, deployment, and security.
- Partner directly with product leadership as a domain expert and power-user, shaping the strategic direction and feature development of our cloud security platform.
Qualifications Your Experience- 5-8 years of progressive experience in DevOps, managing high-scale systems and mission-critical production environments.
- A strong sense of ownership with a proven track record of taking tasks end-to-end (from implementation and QA to production) while managing cloud costs and resources effectively.
- Extensive experience designing, scaling, and managing complex Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads, with deep architectural expertise in GCP.
- Proven experience executing production upgrades at scale with a rigorous focus on system reliability and minimal disruption.
- Strong internal collaboration skills, with a focus on unblocking peers, leading technical deep-dives, and fostering a cohesive, high-trust environment within the DevOps squad and beyond.
- Expert-level proficiency in Linux system architecture, advanced network engineering, and automation development (Python, Go, or Bash).
- Mastery of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, and Helm to drive immutable infrastructure at scale.
- Proven track record of designing secure, high-velocity CI/CD pipelines from scratch using GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar enterprise tooling.
- Hands-on experience working with modern monitoring and observability solutions, as well as managing distributed datastores at scale (BigQuery, MongoDB, Neo4j, or ElasticSearch).
- Practical experience or a strong technical interest in working with AI tools, AI initiatives, and implementing Agentic solutions.
- Demonstrated leadership ability with a history of driving architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, and supporting complex, multi-service production environments.
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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.
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.
