FedRAMP Senior Systems Engineer - Cloud Automation & Security

Jobs Paloaltonetworks; California; On-site; USD 154,000 - 249,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Sr. Staff Systems Engineer (FedRAMP) to lead automated cloud platforms across strictly governed public sector boundaries.

You will own automated infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and container platforms, partnering with Information Security and FedRAMP Production Operations to design, harden, and scale systems. You will work cross-functionally to implement IaC, secure CI/CD pipelines, and defense‑grade compliance, while enabling rapid remediation and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Systems Engineering in regulated cloud environments.
• Deep hands-on GCP provisioning, securing and maintaining infra, including Assured Workloads, IAM, and VPC Controls.
• Experience architecting and operating GKE/Kubernetes in production environments.
• IaC proficiency with Terraform and configuration management tools (Ansible).
• CI/CD pipelines: secure, scalable, and integrated with security testing.
• FedRAMP/DoD boundary security controls (NIST 800-53) experience.
• Scripting in Python and Bash for automation and tooling.
• U.S. Citizenship and ability to pass background checks for DoD IL5 access.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and maintain modular IaC (Terraform/Ansible) across GCP FedRAMP boundaries.
• Build and harden CI/CD pipelines with security, static analysis, scanning, and provenance signing.
• Manage production GKE clusters with strict network isolation and zero-trust policies.
• Automate security controls and reporting for FedRAMP/DoD compliance (ConMon evidence).
• Design unified telemetry, logging, and monitoring across enclaves using Cloud Ops and BigQuery.
• Implement zero-trust identity with IAM, IAP, and hardware-backed auth.
• Lead change governance and incident response to minimize production risk.
• Mentor engineers in cloud security, GitOps, and automation.

Skills

DevOps / SRE experience

GCP expertise

GKE / Kubernetes

Terraform / Ansible (IaC)

CI/CD security integration

FedRAMP / NIST / DoD

Python / Bash

ITSM / Change control

DoD eligibility / citizenship

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GCP Assured Workloads

Cloud IAM

VPC Service Controls

IAP

Kubernetes (GKE)

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Sr. Staff Systems Engineer (FedRAMP) to lead automated cloud platforms across strictly governed public sector boundaries.

You will own automated infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and container platforms, partnering with Information Security and FedRAMP Production Operations to design, harden, and scale systems. You will work cross-functionally to implement IaC, secure CI/CD pipelines, and defense‑grade compliance, while enabling rapid remediation and