Principal Platformatization Cloud Engineer (CDSS - Cloud Delivered Security Services)

Palo Alto Networks • Santa Clara, CA

112d • $147,000 - $235,000

About The Position

Palo Alto Networks CDSS group is looking for a seasoned platformization and cloud automation engineer to design, develop and deliver next-generation technologies within our CASB teams. We are looking for leaders who take ownership of their area of focus, and who are driven to solve challenging technical problems using best practices, and state of the art technologies. Collaboration and teamwork are at the foundation of our culture, and we need engineers who can communicate at a high level, and work well with others towards achieving a common goal. If you have the passion to solve challenging cloud infrastructure and DevOps engineering problems, if you are interested in pushing your boundaries as an engineer, and working at the cusp of delivering Data Security at huge scale, and state of the art technologies within a quality focussed dynamic engineering culture, talk to us.

Requirements

• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 7+ years of industry experience in engineering.
• Fluent scripting skills (preferably Python or Bash) with deep experience in Unix/Linux systems.
• 4+ years of working with Microservices architectures on Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with container native tools like Docker, Helm.
• Experience managing AWS and GCP at scale.
• Experience designing and maintaining API specifications using Swagger/OpenAPI.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible.
• Proficient in CI/CD platforms like GitlabCI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, CircleCI.
• In-depth knowledge of operating systems.
• Implement and enforce network and cloud security best practices.
• Drive observability initiatives by implementing distributed tracing, standardized logging, dashboards, and profiling.
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with setting up and troubleshooting Nginx or Ingress Nginx.
• Hands-on production experience with Kafka, MongoDB, Amazon Redshift, BigQuery.

Nice To Haves

• Expertise in tuning, performance, and guiding long-term strategy for self-hosted or managed solutions.
• The exceptional communicator in and across teams.

Responsibilities

• Work with development teams to ensure that applications have scalability and reliability built-in from day one.
• Design, review and enhance software architecture to improve scalability, service reliability, cost, and performance.
• Drive platformization by building standardized, self-service infrastructure platforms that improve developer productivity, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Deploy automation for provisioning and operating infrastructure at large scale.
• Partner with teams to improve CI/CD processes and technology.
• Mentor members of the staff on large scale cloud deployments.
• Drive the adoption of observability practices and a data-driven mindset.
• Setup processes like on-call rotations, Postmortems, Run books to support the infrastructure.
• Support, optimize and deploy mission critical, front-end and back-end production.

Benefits

• FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items.
• Mental and financial health resources.
• Personalized learning opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree