Director, SW Engineering (Prisma Access)
About The Position
Palo Alto Networks is seeking an engineering leader to lead the design, development, and delivery of core services for the Prisma Access platform. The role leads a team responsible for architecting, scaling, and optimizing multi-cloud environments and Kubernetes-based infrastructure to deliver highly available, resilient services. The Director will guide cloud infrastructure engineers, establish engineering practices for container orchestration, CI/CD, and cloud automation, and collaborate with development, DevOps, and security teams to streamline deployments and improve reliability. The role also shapes and implements multi-cloud and containerized workloads across AWS, GCP, and OCI, with an emphasis on security, governance, performance, cost, availability, and service-level objectives.
Requirements
- 15 or more years of progressive software engineering experience.
- At least 5 years leading large, distributed engineering organizations.
- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or OCI and cloud-native technologies.
- Experience with Helm, Terraform, Kustomize, ArgoCD, or Flux.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of cloud infrastructure engineers.
- Promote a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Establish best practices for container orchestration, CI/CD, and cloud automation.
- Collaborate with development, DevOps, and security teams to streamline deployments and optimize system reliability.
- Architect, implement, monitor, and scale multi-cloud deployments and Kubernetes clusters for mission-critical applications.
- Oversee the design and automation of multi-cloud and containerized workloads to ensure reliability and efficiency.
- Define and enforce Kubernetes security, networking, and governance best practices.
- Improve monitoring, logging, and alerting for Kubernetes-based workloads.
- Evaluate and integrate service mesh technologies such as Istio where necessary.
- Optimize performance, cost, and availability in cloud-native environments across AWS, GCP, and OCI.
- Develop and manage dynamic orchestration for resources across multiple clouds.
- Ensure compliance with SLAs, SLOs, and SRE best practices for uptime and performance.
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and capacity planning.
Benefits
- Compensation may include restricted stock units and a bonus.
- Employee benefits are referenced, but specific benefits are not listed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
