Principal DevOps Engineer
About The Position
The Cortex team builds and delivers the industry’s most advanced SecOps platform, consisting of XDR, XSIAM, XSOAR, and XPANSE. As a Principal DevOps Engineer for the Cortex platform, you will serve as a technical pillar and visionary, architecting, scaling, and optimizing a massive-scale, multi-region GCP environment. In this high-impact role, you will leverage a deep, comprehensive DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering skillset to define the future of our cloud infrastructure. You will not just operate systems; you will set engineering standards, pioneer infrastructure-as-code paradigms, and drive organizational alignment across product engineering and specialized CI/CD groups. Your mission is to champion absolute system resilience, eliminate engineering friction at scale, and guarantee that our next-generation SecOps platform remains secure, cost-optimized, and highly available.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Architecture, with a proven track record of owning large-scale, business-critical production environments.
- Deep, authoritative expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS), including complex networking, IAM governance, and multi-region architectures.
- Expert-level mastery of Kubernetes (GKE/EKS) and the broader cloud-native ecosystem (Service Meshes, Ingress controllers, advanced scheduling).
- High proficiency in Python or Go, advanced Linux internals, and robust shell scripting.
- Expert-level experience designing maintainable, dry, and scalable Terraform modules.
- Deep architectural understanding of enterprise-scale software delivery pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and GitOps methodologies (e.g., ArgoCD).
- Proven experience designing comprehensive, platform-wide observability strategies using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and PagerDuty.
Nice To Haves
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, influence engineering directors, and align technical roadmaps across distributed global teams.
- Exceptional capacity for troubleshooting deeply complex, distributed systems, networking bottlenecks, and cloud infrastructure anomalies.
- A proven track record of operating with absolute autonomy, making high-stakes architectural decisions, and owning the long-term outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Design and govern the global, multi-region cloud infrastructure strategy using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles (Terraform). Establish blueprints and modular architectures that scale seamlessly across the enterprise.
- Partner with engineering leadership and specialized pipeline teams to architect robust, secure, and self-healing continuous delivery workflows, radically reducing time-to-market for Cortex features.
- Drive the long-term optimization strategy for our global GCP footprint. Architect for maximum performance, multi-zone reliability, and sophisticated cost-efficiency/FinOps models.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to Product Engineering teams. Influence the core application architecture early in the lifecycle to ensure services are natively containerized, horizontally scalable, and highly observable.
- Act as a critical escalation point for complex, systemic outages. Lead post-mortems, identify systemic vulnerabilities, and design architectural mitigations to prevent recurring incidents across the entire platform.
- Spearhead the creation of internal platforms, automated remediation frameworks, and intelligent auto-scaling solutions to eliminate manual operational toil.
- Continually evaluate emerging technologies, paradigms, and open-source tools. Define the technical roadmap for the DevOps organization and mentor senior engineers across the team.
Benefits
- 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
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