Principal Systems Administrator ASIC/FPGA (NetSec)

Palo Alto Networks • Santa Clara, CA

22d • $180,000 - $200,000 • Onsite

About The Position

As a Systems Administrator in the ASIC / FPGA team you will interface with engineering teams regularly to help build and maintain a world-class semiconductor development environment. You will work with multiple ASIC and FPGA engineering teams as well as IT and Infosec to build and improve our infrastructure. You have a broad reach of knowledge spanning storage, virtualization, and compute, and can communicate verbally and in writing effectively.

Requirements

• Strong experience administrating production UNIX/Linux environments
• Broad experience supporting and maintaining common Linux/Unix applications and services, as well as a solid understanding of DNS, DHCP, LDAP, NIS,NFS, AutoFS, PXE, SNMP, SSH, HTTP/S, and NTP
• Working experience with system orchestration tools (SALT, Chef, Puppet, etc)
• Working experience in monitoring systems (Nagios, ELK, Prometheus, etc)
• BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• Experience with shell scripting, interpreted, or compiled language such as Bash, Perl, Ruby, Python, Go, C, or C++
• Experience with common version control software such as Git, CVS, SVN, or Perforce
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, communication, and teamwork skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication, able to collaborate and rally support
• Excellent documentation skills
• Self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Passion for automation and monitoring instrumentation in the code
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well in a team
• Passionate to learn, understand, and dissect new technology stack quickly on own

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Atlassian Software desired
• Experience in storage administration desired (SAN & NAS)
• Familiarity with containerization

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate engineering development infrastructure to enable our ASIC and FPGA engineering teams
• Support and improve the services on which our ASIC/FPGA engineering department depends
• Engage with engineering teams to ensure they have the infrastructure to enable the development of first-class ASICs and FPGAs
• Define and improve end-to-end monitoring of systems and applications used by our ASIC and FPGA engineering teams
• Identify and drive opportunities to improve systems and automation opportunities for system and service deployment, management, and visibility
• Drive root cause analysis of critical business and production issues
• Work cross-functionally with Engineering teams on operational readiness
• Manage the day-to-day needs and requests from our ASIC and FPGA engineering users
• Perform upgrades to servers and services on a regular basis

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees