Sr Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Cortex Data Lake)

Palo Alto Networks • Santa Clara, CA

393d • $126,000 - $203,500

About The Position

The Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Palo Alto Networks will play a crucial role in supporting the services running on a large infrastructure, particularly focusing on automation, architecture, performance, observability, troubleshooting, security, and reliability. This position is integral to ensuring that applications are production-ready, scalable, and reliable, while also contributing to the success of SRE and DevOps initiatives.

Requirements

• 4+ years as an engineer in Infrastructure, Operations, DevOps, or System Engineering
• 3+ years building high availability, scalable cloud-native applications on AWS or GCP
• BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience or equivalent military experience required
• Expertise in configuration management with a framework such as Ansible, Terraform, Helm
• Passion for infrastructure and monitoring as code
• Solid experience in container workloads and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with PKI concepts, Networking concepts
• In-depth knowledge of different security controls (app-id, user-id, security profile, url category, content, ssl decryption, firewall MFA etc)
• Linux administration, internals, and network troubleshooting
• Proficiency with programming languages like Golang or Python along with shell scripting to automate tasks
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, ArgoCD and GitLab CI/CD. Knowledge of GitLab Runners is a plus
• Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot complex distributed systems handling high volume transactions
• Experience with managing Kafka is a plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication, able to collaborate and rally support
• Self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Ready to understand and dissect new technology stacks quickly

Nice To Haves

• Experience with managing Kafka is a plus
• Knowledge of GitLab Runners is a plus

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the success of SRE and DevOps
• Develop expertise in new technologies
• Work with developers, researchers, data scientists, and security experts
• Design, build and operate reliable, secure Cloud infrastructure
• Ensure that applications are production-ready, scalable, and reliable
• Develop tools and automation frameworks
• Automate robust deployment of robust services
• Orchestrate end-to-end monitoring and alerting
• Participate with SRE and Dev teams in the on-call rotation
• Lead root cause analysis of critical business and production issues

Benefits

• FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account
• Mental and financial health resources
• Personalized learning opportunities
• Restricted stock units
• Bonus opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree