Your Career
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 and maintaining a large-scale GCP environment
We are looking for a motivated Principal Data / DevOps Engineer to join our Cortex XDR Devops group in our India center. We are responsible for reliability, scalability, and Operational excellence while keeping an eye on latency, performance, and capacity of GCP hosted data stores , primarily BigQuery. As part of this role, you will collaborate closely with our engineering teams to develop innovative solutions that provide clear and actionable insights into our systems’ performance and health.
- Contribute to the success of the Data platform team
- Develop expertise in new technologies
- Work with developers, researchers, data scientists, and security experts
- Ensure that applications are scalable, and reliable
- Develop tools and automation frameworks
- Automate robust deployment of robust services
- Orchestrate end-to-end monitoring and alerting
- Participate in design reviews
Your Impact
- You will work closely with development teams to manage and optimize data storage and processing in BigQuery in GCP
- Optimizes query performance and reduces costs for faster, more efficient data analysis
- Ensures scalability of data infrastructure to support product growth
- Supports feature optimization and enhances user experience with accurate data analysis
- Manages data-related costs by optimizing storage and query strategies
- Participate in the on-call rotation supporting the applications and infrastructure
- You will think of new ways of improving existing processes and creating new ones to increase Developers Experience
- Own, maintain, and continuously improve all systems provided as a service, such as monitoring and datastores
- Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, anticipating performance bottlenecks
Your Experience
- 9+ years in data engineering / DevOps with extensive experience working on Dataware housing solutions
- Experienced in managing and optimizing GCP BigQuery with expertise in SQL query tuning, partitioning and clustering for performance and cost efficiency
- Experience in schema design, table management and query execution
- Proficiency with DB such as Cassandra, ScyllaDB, MemSQL, MySQL
- Proficiency with code language (Python / Go - preferred)
- Proficiency in the Google Cloud Platform
- High proficiency with virtualized and containerized environments (Kubernetes and Docker)
- Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- Experience in ETL/ELT Development
- Systematic problem-solving approach
- Bachelor in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent or equivalent military experience required
- Passionate about technology with a strong focus on ensuring high reliability and service levels
The Team
We are a global cybersecurity leader, dedicated to protecting the digital age by preventing successful cyberattacks. Our Security Operating Platform enables organizations to embrace digital transformation securely, leveraging automation, analytics, and continuous innovation. Designed for ease of use and automation, it empowers customers to prevent cyberattacks and focus on priorities. Through our Application Framework, we foster an open ecosystem of developers, maximizing the value of existing investments in data and security infrastructure.
Our Commitment
We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email protected].
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