Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Terraform & Python

Fortinet; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortinet is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the FortiSOC Cloud Platform team in Santa Clara, CA. You will own parts of the cloud platform from design to production, building infrastructure, automation, and Python services to manage customer deployments.

You’ll work across Terraform/OpenTofu IaC, Kubernetes, and production operations, collaborating with security, SRE, QA, and product teams. This onsite role requires four days/week in Santa Clara and offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• 4+ years software engineering, incl. 2+ years in cloud infra/DevOps/SRE.
• Strong Python programming skills.
• IaC experience with Terraform/OpenTofu or similar.
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes.
• Experience running production services and on-call.
• Solid Linux and networking fundamentals.
• CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• onsite in Santa Clara, CA four days per week.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure that provisions and manages customer environments.
• Develop and improve automation for deployment, provisioning, upgrades, scaling, backup and DR.
• Build and enhance Python platform services that orchestrate cloud resources and manage the customer stack lifecycle.
• Write and review infrastructure-as-code using Terraform/OpenTofu, and keep modules consistent across environments.
• Improve monitoring, alerting and operational tooling so issues are caught before customers notice them.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation and rollback mechanisms.
• Troubleshoot production issues across cloud infrastructure, backend services, databases and networking.
• Work with product, QA, SRE and security teams to deliver secure, reliable features.
• Take part in production support and the on-call rotation.

Skills

Python

Cloud infrastructure

Terraform/OpenTofu

Kubernetes

Linux

CI/CD

On-call support

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Docker

Job description

Fortinet is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the FortiSOC Cloud Platform team in Santa Clara, CA. You will own parts of the cloud platform from design to production, building infrastructure, automation, and Python services to manage customer deployments.

You’ll work across Terraform/OpenTofu IaC, Kubernetes, and production operations, collaborating with security, SRE, QA, and product teams. This onsite role requires four days/week in Santa Clara and offers a comprehensive benefits package.