Director of Cloud Infrastructure & Kubernetes

Jobs Paloaltonetworks; California (MO); On-site; USD 253,000 - 347,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Leader in Engineering to oversee the design, development, and delivery of core services of the Prisma Access platform.

You will guide a team of cloud infrastructure engineers, drive innovation, and establish best practices for container orchestration and cloud automation across AWS, GCP, and OCI.

The role emphasizes high availability, security, and collaboration with DevOps, development, and security teams to scale multi-cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with at least 5 years leading large, distributed engineering organizations.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or OCI).
• Experience with Helm, Terraform, Kustomize, ArgoCD, or Flux.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of cloud infrastructure engineers.
• Drive a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Establish best practices for container orchestration, CI/CD, and cloud automation.
• Work cross-functionally with development, DevOps, and security teams to streamline deployments and optimize system reliability.
• Architect, implement, monitor and scale multi-cloud deployments, Kubernetes clusters for mission-critical applications.
• Oversee the design and automation of multi-cloud and containerized workloads, ensuring reliability and efficiency.
• Define and enforce Kubernetes security, networking, and governance best practices. Improve monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions for Kubernetes-based workloads.
• Evaluate and integrate service mesh technologies like Istio where necessary.
• Optimize performance, cost, and availability in cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, OCI).
• Develop and manage dynamic orchestration for multiple cloud resources in AWS, GCP, OCI etc.
• Ensure compliance with SLAs, SLOs, and SRE best practices for uptime and performance.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and capacity planning efforts.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Leadership

Container orchestration

Terraform

Helm

ArgoCD

Kustomize

Flux

Istio

Tools

Helm

Terraform

Kustomize

ArgoCD

Flux

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Leader in Engineering to oversee the design, development, and delivery of core services of the Prisma Access platform.

You will guide a team of cloud infrastructure engineers, drive innovation, and establish best practices for container orchestration and cloud automation across AWS, GCP, and OCI.

The role emphasizes high availability, security, and collaboration with DevOps, development, and security teams to scale multi-cloud environments.