Sr Staff DevOps Engineer (SASE)

Your Career

We are seeking a Development heavy DevOps Engineer who will be responsible for improving and maintaining a software development, test and live infrastructure. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, articulate, have experience with Linux and is comfortable working in a fast-paced development environment.

Your primary mission as a DevOps engineer is working closely with the development, technical operations, quality assurance, and product management teams, to ensure the timely delivery of robust technical solutions for Palo Alto Networks' customers and internal teams. At Palo Alto networks we believe in the policy of building Infrastructure as code.

Your Impact

• Support and deploy mission critical, front-end and back-end production
• Improving site performance, monitoring, and overall stability of our infrastructure
• Interacting with the Engineering for supporting/maintaining/designing backend infrastructure for product support
• Automation of deployment, customization, upgrades and monitoring through DevOps tools meant for Cloud management
• As a DevOps Engineer, building, deploying, and maintaining our cloud environment is your day-to-day focus
• Automation is a part of your daily functions, so thorough familiarity with Unix Bourne shell scripting and other languages such as Python is a critical survival skill
• Participate in 24×7 operation support and on-call rotation

Your Experience 

• 5+ years experience - BS or MS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent military experience 
• Previous production environment engineering, configuration management, release engineering
• Excellent development experience with bash and python is a must
• Excellent knowledge of Linux systems administration and architecture
• Proficient working with AWS and/or GCP in a highly available and scalable production environment
• Experience managing web servers (nginx)
• Experience with continuous integration and deployment automation tools such as Jenkins, Ansible GIT
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes
• Experience with building and deploying monitoring solutions like Prometheus, Kibana
• Experience documenting processes, labs and test environments

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products – connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating – challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don’t shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before.

We define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment. 

Compensation Disclosure 

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $126000 - $203500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.