Staff DevOps Engineer - Cortex XDR, XSIAM

Your Career

We are looking for a motivated Senior SRE Engineer to join the Cortex Devops Production group based at our India development ( IDC ) center. In this position you will be working side by side with Cortex Cyber Security Research group. You will be responsible for planning, executing, and reporting on various infrastructure and code projects for Cortex Cyber Security Research Group. Additionally, you will manage and execute high-pressure production maintenance tasks and address related issues.

More information about the Cortex product can be found here

Your Impact

• You will take full end-to-end responsibility for the production environment of our SaaS product deployed on GCP
• You will build tools for the automatic remediation of known issues
• You will develop Infrastructure-as-code which will be used to orchestrate production and dev environments
• You will design, build, maintain, and scale production services with thousands of Kubernetes clusters
• You will secure the production environments and add in new security tools and features both internal Palo Alto Networks and other market-leading technologies
• You will work closely with development teams to design and enhance software architecture to improve scalability, service reliability, cost, and performance
• You will build CI pipelines and automation processes
• Participate in the on-call rotation supporting the applications and infrastructure
• You will research cutting-edge technologies and deploy them to production

Your Experience 

• 4+ years as DevOps Engineer (or equal role) with a passion for technology and strong motivation and responsibility for high reliability and service level
• Proficiency with code language (Python / Go - preferred)
• High proficiency with Linux
• Proficiency in the cloud (GCP - preferred)
• Proficiency with Terraform and HashiCorp tools
• High proficiency with virtualized and containerized environments (Kubernetes and Docker)
• Proficiency with CI/CD and Configuration Management (Jenkins preferred)
• Proficiency with DB such as Cassandra, ScyllaDB, MemSQL, MySQL - An advantage( Optional ) 
• Experience with working with internal and external customers and stakeholders
• Managing a high-scale production environment
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to work and coordinate between multiple teams
• Ability to grasp new techn

The Team

To stay ahead of the curve, it’s critical to know where the curve is, and how to anticipate the changes we’re facing. For the fastest-growing cybersecurity company, the curve is the evolution of cyberattacks and access technology and the products and services that dedicatedly address them. Our engineering team is at the core of our products – connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks and enabling secure access to all on-prem and cloud applications. They are constantly innovating – challenging the way we, and the industry, think about Access and security. These engineers aren’t shy about building products to solve problems no one has pursued before. They define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Our engineering team is provided with an unrivaled chance to create the products and practices that will support our company growth over the next decade, defining the cybersecurity industry as we know it. If you see the potential of how incredible people and products can transform a business, this is the team for you.   If the prospect of affecting tens of millions of people, enabling them to work remotely securely and easily in ways never done before, thrill you - you belong with us.

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.

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