Senior Automation Engineer (Cloud Application Security)

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your well-being support to your growth and development, and beyond!

Job Description

Your Career 

The Prisma Cloud Application Security (CAS) product is responsible for securing the development ecosystem from code to deployment -  We scan everything : IaC, proprietary code, open sources, VCS , pipelines and more. This is being composed into application risk and major part of the code to cloud offering of Prisma cloud.The product identifies problems, facilitates “shift left” operations, and helps our customers remediate them.

We are looking for a Sr Software Automation Engineer to drive our test efforts and automation infrastructure. You will be in charge of, first and foremost, product quality, design and plan required quality assurance tests, you will develop automation tests and needed infrastructure together with deployment to all known cloud providers using python, and working closely with a development team to address issues that were discovered. Additionally, you will be involved in developing test infrastructure for Unit-Tests, Integration-Tests and more, while providing the infrastructure as a service to the dev teams. The job is deeply hands-on and requires a deep understanding of the product, and the environments it runs.

Your Impact 

• Work closely with our engineering teams to understand business requirements

• Own and develop test infrastructure used by dev teams, while providing them with guidance and assistance for using it

• Design, plan and implement automatic tests for our critical business paths

• Own and adjust our UI testing framework to support dev teams which are using it to develop end-to-end tests

• Own and improve peripheral tools for our quality efforts, such as reporting, investigation etc.

• Identifying, reporting, documenting and tracking defect/bug issues

• Investigate, analyze and find the root causes for failed systems and software

• Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• At least 5  years of experience as a QA automation engineer

• Strong coding skills Experience in one of the following (or equivalent) languages - TypeScript / Python 

• Experience with cloud-native technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, etc

• Experience with CSPs such as GCP (advantage), AWS

• Experience with CI/CD pipeline development and usage

• Experience with process automation solutions and tools development - Advantage

• Experience with UI/Web automation testing - Advantage

• Ability to learn new technologies superfast

• A strong passion for product quality and continuous willingness to improve the product

Additional Information

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyber attacks. 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.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, 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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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.

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Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.