Principal DevSecOps Engineer (Cortex Cloud)

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!

Your Career

We are looking for a Principal Security Engineer (DevSecOps) to work in the Cortex DevSecOps group to help secure our immense cloud and on-prem deployments, and will be a security advisor for all infrastructure and application related new developments, as well as overseeing all current infrastructure and processes security improvements.

Helping guide new security initiatives in the product group and thinking outside the box for any new attack vectors as they appear in the wild.

The Cortex group specializes in analysis and visualization of complex cyber-data gathered by the Palo Alto Networks products. It combines high-performance algorithms, deep understanding of modern databases, advanced visualization and high-end UI/UX.

Your Impact

• Participate in meetings with stakeholders to provide balanced insights on feature requirements and security implications.

• Act as a bridge between security, development, and operations teams to ensure security best practices are integrated into all phases of the development lifecycle.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop pragmatic security solutions that do not hinder agility and innovation.

• Work closely and in full coordination with multiple product engineering groups and DevOps teams to produce highly secure features

• Handle, prioritize and effectively bring security vulnerabilities to resolution for multiple products

• Build out security processes and perform threat modeling to all ongoing development and operations

Your Experience 

• 5+ years as a DevSecOps or Product Security Engineer with a passion for security and doing things right

• Knowledge of container security and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes).

• High proficiency in cloud security across the common platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).

• Solid experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, etc.).

• Experience in reviewing architectures and identifying security gaps and provide recommendations

• Experience in triaging vulnerabilities and providing security remediation recommendations.

• Familiar with static and dynamic security analyzers

• Experience helping engineering teams to focus high value security issues and avoid toil on non security issues

• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, ability to work and coordinate between multiple teams

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products and 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.

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.