Staff DevOps Engineer

This Staff DevOps Engineer role at Palo Alto Networks offers an exciting opportunity to transform cloud infrastructure and engineering platforms, enhancing engineering productivity. The role involves managing and improving the reliability, performance, and scalability of production systems, automating operational processes with IaC and CI/CD, implementing SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, building observability systems, participating in on-call rotations, and collaborating with developers to design resilient systems. The engineer will also contribute to continuous improvement in deployment, configuration, and release management, and optimize cost and resource utilization.

Must Have

• Manage and improve reliability, performance, and scalability of production and pre-production systems.
• Automate operational processes using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement and monitor SLIs/SLOs/SLAs to measure and improve service reliability.
• Build and maintain observability systems (metrics, logging, and distributed tracing).
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response; drive post-incident reviews and RCA.
• Collaborate with developers to design systems with resilience and failure-tolerance in mind.
• Contribute to continuous improvement in deployment, configuration, and release management.
• Optimize cost and resource utilization across environments.
• 2+ years of experience as a Software Developer.
• Deep understanding of Engineering Productivity tools and platforms.
• Hands-on experience with configuration management systems (Ansible or equivalent).
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, Helm) and secrets management.
• Experience in any public cloud with good understanding of Cloud Technologies.
• Linux, containers, Kubernetes experience.
• Development experience preferably in Python / Go.
• API Development with web frameworks (like FastAPI).
• Experience with build and test frameworks.
• Significant SRE experience.

Good to Have

• Prior experience building CI/CD using Gitlab, Vault, Artifactory, Spinnaker etc.
• Fullstack experience (React or equivalent).
• Knowledge on ML / AI, MLOps etc.
• AWS and GCP experience.

Your Career

• This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and ownership-driven Staff Engineer. You will join a team that is transforming the way Cloud Infrastructure and Engineering Platforms are built and enhancing Engineering Productivity.

Your Impact

• Manage and improve reliability, performance, and scalability of production and pre-production systems.
• Automate operational processes using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement and monitor SLIs/SLOs/SLAs to measure and improve service reliability.
• Build and maintain observability systems — metrics, logging, and distributed tracing.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response; drive post-incident reviews and RCA.
• Collaborate with developers to design systems with resilience and failure-tolerance in mind.
• Contribute to continuous improvement in deployment, configuration, and release management.
• Optimize cost and resource utilization across environments.

Your Experience

• 2+ years of experience as a Software Dev
• A deep understanding of Engineering Productivity tools and platforms
• Hands on experience with configuration management systems (ansible or equivalent) infrastructure as code tools (terraform, helm) and secrets management
• Should have worked in any one public cloud and has good understanding of Cloud TechnologiesLinux, containers, kubernetes experience
• Development experience preferably in Python / Go
• API Development with web frameworks (like FastAPI)
• Experience with build and test frameworks
• Significant SRE experience

Preferred

• Prior experience building CI/CD using Gitlab, Vault, Artifactory, Spinnaker etc.
• Fullstack experience (React or equivalent)
• knowledge on ML / AI, MLOps etc.
• AWS and GCP experience

The Team

Serious mission, fun culture; We’re not your ordinary Information Security team. We’re a diverse group of security professionals that embraces challenging the status quo in order to protect Palo Alto Networks and our customers. They say it’s the people you work with that make you want to go to work and it’s true here; we love our work.

You’ll be driving innovation on the Information Security team of the fastest-growing high-tech cybersecurity company. Join the brightest minds in technology, and our global teams who are on the front line of defense against cyberattacks.

We’re joined by one mission – but driven by the impact of that mission and what it means to protect our way of life in the digital age. Join a dynamic and fast-paced team that feels excitement at the prospect of a challenge and feels a thrill every time we beat the bad guys.

We hope to meet you soon!

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.

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.