Principal Cloud SRE & Automation Engineer

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 151,600 - 245,300; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer in Santa Clara, CA. This role involves supporting a large infrastructure and ensuring applications are production-ready, scalable, and reliable. You'll work closely with developers and researchers, design secure cloud infrastructure, automate processes, and lead root cause analysis. Ideal candidates have 10+ years in infrastructure engineering, experience in cloud applications on AWS/GCP, and programming skills in Python. A diverse workplace committed to equal opportunity.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience in Infrastructure, Operations, DevOps, or System Engineering.
• Expertise in building high availability, scalable cloud native applications on AWS or GCP.
• Experience with configuration management frameworks like Ansible, Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the success of SRE and DevOps.
• Automate robust deployment of services.
• Design, build, and operate reliable and secure Cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Cloud native application development

Infrastructure automation

Site Reliability Engineering

Kubernetes

Programming with Python

Troubleshooting complex distributed systems

CI/CD pipelines

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitLab CI

Terraform

Docker

AWS

GCP

Ansible

Job description

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer in Santa Clara, CA. This role involves supporting a large infrastructure and ensuring applications are production-ready, scalable, and reliable. You'll work closely with developers and researchers, design secure cloud infrastructure, automate processes, and lead root cause analysis. Ideal candidates have 10+ years in infrastructure engineering, experience in cloud applications on AWS/GCP, and programming skills in Python. A diverse workplace committed to equal opportunity.