Cloud & SRE Principal — Cortex Platform Architect

Palo Alto Networks; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 147,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer for the Cortex platform. You will architect, scale, and optimize a massive multi-region GCP/AWS environment, defining standards, infrastructure-as-code, and global reliability across product engineering. You will lead cloud modernization and guide CI/CD strategy with cross‑functional teams.

The role emphasizes autonomy, advanced tooling, and collaboration in a hybrid work model with strong emphasis on security and observability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Architecture owning large production environments.
• Cloud Infrastructure: GCP or AWS with multi-region architectures and IAM governance.
• Container Orchestration: Kubernetes (GKE/EKS) and cloud-native ecosystem.
• Automation & Software Engineering: Python or Go, Linux internals, shell scripting, Terraform modules.
• Enterprise CI/CD: GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitOps (ArgoCD).
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, PagerDuty.

Responsibilities

• Architectural Leadership & IaC Strategy: design multi-region cloud infra using Terraform; establish scalable blueprints.
• Strategic CI/CD & Platform Engineering: build secure, self-healing delivery workflows; reduce time-to-market.
• Cloud Economics & Optimization: optimize global GCP footprint for performance and cost-efficiency.
• Consultative Engineering & Influence: advise Product Engineering on architecture and containerization.
• Systemic Reliability & Incident Governance: lead post-mortems and mitigate systemic outages.
• Advanced Tooling & R&D: develop internal platforms and auto-scaling solutions.
• Technology Evangelism: define roadmaps and mentor senior engineers.

Skills

GCP

AWS

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Terraform

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitOps

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

PagerDuty

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer for the Cortex platform. You will architect, scale, and optimize a massive multi-region GCP/AWS environment, defining standards, infrastructure-as-code, and global reliability across product engineering. You will lead cloud modernization and guide CI/CD strategy with cross‑functional teams.

The role emphasizes autonomy, advanced tooling, and collaboration in a hybrid work model with strong emphasis on security and observability.