Principal DevOps Engineer (SASE) - NetSec

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.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Job Description

Your Career

Our DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers are a hybrid of software and systems engineers. Our mission is to design the next version of the Prisma Access. We code our way out of operational problems. We are responsible for reliability, scalability, and automation while keeping an eye on latency, performance, and capacity.

• 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
• Mentor and champion SRE culture
• Participate in design reviews

Your Impact

• Design, write and maintain software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of the services, incorporating third-party open-source tools when available
• Create new designs for a growing number of distributed systems
• Design and implement the tools and processes used for deployment and change management
• Plan and execute configuration management
• 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
• Automate resource provisioning and allocation process
• Run software performance analysis and system tuning
• Plan and execute disaster recovery drills
• Participate in rotating on-call duties

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Fluent in one or more of Python, Go
• Minimum of 9+ years of industry experience in engineering
• Familiarity with algorithms, data structures, and complexity analysis
• In-depth knowledge of operating systems (processes, threads, concurrency, etc)
• Experience working with Unix/Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond, with experience working with system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols
• Experience with network protocols and theory (TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, MAC addresses, IP packets, DNS, and load balancing, etc.)
• Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible
• Systematic problem-solving approach
• Strong sense of ownership and drive
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with Amazon Web Services & Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with InfluxDB, Graphite, NoSQL tuning and performance
• Bachelor in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent or equivalent military experience required

Additional Information

The Team

The SASE Prisma Access team is responsible for building products that protect data, workloads, and infrastructure for some of the largest enterprise customers in the world. We help the customers in their journey to the public cloud by ensuring they have the best-in-class protection. The public cloud market has been growing at a very rapid rate for the last few years. As more and more enterprises use public clouds, there is an insatiable demand for securing workloads in the public clouds. With the recent acquisition of two leading companies in this space - RedLock and Evident .io, Palo Alto Networks is now the market leader.

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  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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