Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

Palo Alto Networks; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a senior Site Reliability/Production Engineer leader to drive reliability, scalability, and operability of Cortex services and infrastructure. You will mentor engineers, own incident management, and push automation to reduce toil across regions.

The role emphasizes cross-team collaboration, architecture improvements, and adoption of new tech to ensure production readiness and high availability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in SRE/DevOps/Production Engineering with leadership experience.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience with Kubernetes and large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with observability tech: Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.
• Strong incident management, monitoring, SLOs, and reliability practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Site Reliability/Production Engineers.
• Own reliability, availability, and health of Cortex services and infra.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, incident management, and observability.
• Lead major production incidents with root cause analyses and actions.
• Collaborate with Engineering to improve service architecture and operability.
• Drive automation and self-healing to reduce toil.
• Set priorities and measurable reliability goals for the team.
• Coordinate with regional teams to maintain follow-the-sun operations.
• Evaluate new tech and drive adoption for reliability improvements.

Skills

SRE leadership

Cloud platforms (GCP)

Kubernetes

Observability stack (Prometheus, OpenO

Tools

Kubernetes

Python

Terraform

Ansible

GitOps

Job description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Summary

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Site Reliability/Production Engineers, providing technical direction, coaching, and career development.

• Own the reliability, availability, and operational health of critical Cortex services and infrastructure.

• Drive improvements in monitoring, alerting, incident management, and observability to identify and resolve issues before they impact customers.

• Lead major production incidents, ensure effective root cause analysis, and drive corrective and preventive actions.

• Partner with Engineering teams to improve service architecture, production readiness, scalability, and operability.

• Drive automation and self-healing solutions to reduce operational toil and improve engineering efficiency.

• Establish clear priorities, operational processes, and measurable reliability goals for the team.

• Collaborate with Production Engineering teams across regions to strengthen follow-the-sun operations and consistent operational practices.

• Evaluate new technologies and drive adoption of solutions that improve reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Production Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, or related areas, including experience leading or managing engineering teams.

• Strong technical knowledge of cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Strong experience with Kubernetes, containerized environments, and large-scale distributed systems.

• Experience with observability technologies such as Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and cloud-native monitoring solutions.

• Strong understanding of incident management, monitoring, alerting, SLOs, and reliability engineering practices.

• Experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code using technologies such as Python, Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps.

• Demonstrated ability to lead engineers, set priorities, drive execution, and manage multiple operational and technical initiatives.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate and influence across engineering teams and global organizations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing SRE, DevOps, Production Engineering, or infrastructure teams supporting large-scale SaaS platforms.

• Experience operating highly available, multi-region cloud environments.

• Experience driving automation, self-healing, or AI-assisted operational capabilities.

• Strong operational leadership with experience managing high-severity production incidents.

• Proven ability to develop engineers, improve team processes, and drive a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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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 [e-mail].

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.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.