Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Palo Alto Networks•Office - USA - CA - Headquarters, CA

3d•$126,000 - $203,500•Onsite

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 member of the Cortex DevOps team, your role involves operating, automating, and optimizing a large-scale GCP environment. To meet the opportunities that such a role provides, you will possess a versatile, all-around DevOps skillset—spanning infrastructure as code, container orchestration, system reliability, and an understanding of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) principles. As part of this role, you will collaborate closely with our engineering teams and specialized CI/CD groups to build resilient infrastructure, reduce deployment friction, and ensure our services are scalable, secure, and highly available.

Requirements

5+ years of experience as a DevOps/SRE engineer with a versatile skillset and a strong motivation for high reliability at the service level.
High proficiency in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS).
High proficiency with Kubernetes and Docker for container orchestration.
High proficiency in Python programming and Linux Shell commands.
Deep experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code.
Strong understanding of software delivery pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and how they interact with cloud infrastructure.
Solid understanding of modern monitoring, incident, and alert management using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty.

Nice To Haves

Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work and coordinate between multiple teams in different time zones.
Ability to effectively troubleshoot and address complex infrastructure, networking, and deployment problems.
Ability to operate independently, make sound architectural decisions, take action, and take responsibility.

Responsibilities

Provision, manage, and scale cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and tools like Terraform and Ansible.
Partner with engineering and specialized pipeline teams to support and troubleshoot CI/CD workflows, ensuring the smooth and rapid deployment of services.
Utilize expertise in cloud platforms, particularly GCP, to optimize infrastructure for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
Work with the Engineering team to influence the operability of the product, ensuring applications are architected with containerization, scalability, and best practices in mind.
Leverage incident management processes to ensure efficient resolution of system issues, participating in operational coverage to maintain system availability and minimize service impact.
Automate complex operational tasks by building internal tools for cloud operations, automated remediation of known issues, and auto-scaling.
Stay up-to-date with cutting-edge technologies, evaluate their potential impact on operations, and implement them when appropriate.