Senior Platform Engineer: Kubernetes, GCP & SRE

Jobs Paloaltonetworks; California (MO); On-site; USD 184,000 - 297,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable, secure infrastructure powering its next-generation threat prevention platforms. You will manage the orchestration plane and automate deployment pipelines to keep inline engines, data pipelines, and AI models running globally.

Responsibilities include building robust Kubernetes clusters on GKE, deploying core GCP services, and implementing IaC, CI/CD, and observability practices to ensure reliability and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, or cloud platform engineering.
• Deep, hands-on expertise with Kubernetes (GKE) and container runtimes.
• Experience with ArgoCD and GitLab CI/CD for complex delivery pipelines.
• Terraform or other IaC tools for production cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain high-scale Kubernetes clusters on GKE across multi-region environments.
• Deploy and optimize core GCP data services like Bigtable and BigQuery.
• Design and implement IaC solutions for global environments.
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines with automated gates and version pinning.
• Collaborate with data teams to monitor and optimize performance.
• Establish SRE practices with observability dashboards and proactive alerts.

Skills

Kubernetes

CI/CD automation

Monitoring observability

Python scripting

Security IAM

Education

BS in Computer Science

MS in Computer Science

Tools

GKE

Terraform

ArgoCD

GitLab CI/CD

Cloud monitoring tools

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable, secure infrastructure powering its next-generation threat prevention platforms. You will manage the orchestration plane and automate deployment pipelines to keep inline engines, data pipelines, and AI models running globally.

Responsibilities include building robust Kubernetes clusters on GKE, deploying core GCP services, and implementing IaC, CI/CD, and observability practices to ensure reliability and