Senior Platform Reliability Engineer, Multi-Cloud

Jobs Paloaltonetworks; United States; On-site; USD 152,000 - 246,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Sr Principal DevOps Engineer to support a large hybrid infrastructure and services running on GCP and AWS. You will own automation, architecture, performance, metrics, troubleshooting, security, and reliability in a dynamic, highly scalable environment.

You will work with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitLab, ArgoCD, and open-source tools, learning and applying what’s needed to ensure production readiness and cost efficiency across regions.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering.
• Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems on AWS/GCP.
• Proven experience driving cross-team or org-level technical initiatives.
• Strong expertise in Terraform, Helm, or similar IaC frameworks.
• Deep experience in automation (Python, Go, shell scripting).
• Strong hands-on expertise in Kubernetes at scale.
• Advanced knowledge of Linux, networking, and distributed systems debugging.
• Experience with CI/CD (GitLab) and GitOps (ArgoCD).
• Strong background in observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, tracing).
• Ability to lead incident management and complex production troubleshooting.
• Excellent communication skills; ability to influence directors and VPs.
• Demonstrated leadership in mentoring and setting engineering standards.
• Strong ownership, with focus on scalability, reliability, and long-term architecture.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive org-level SRE and platform engineering strategy.
• Architect multi-region, multi-cloud (GCP & AWS) highly available systems.
• Establish SLO/SLI standards, error budgets, and reliability governance across teams.
• Lead design of platform abstractions (Terraform modules, Kubernetes platforms, GitOps).
• Drive end-to-end observability architecture and reduce MTTR at scale.
• Ensure services are production-ready, scalable, secure, and cost-optimized.
• Lead SEV-1 incidents, RCA, and executive-level communication.
• Influence product and engineering teams on architecture and reliability decisions.
• Mentor senior engineers and act as a technical authority across orgs.
• Drive automation, self-service platforms, and operational excellence.

Skills

Infrastructure/SRE

DevOps

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Shell scripting

Terraform

Helm

GitLab CI/CD

GitOps

Observability

Incident management

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Kubernetes

GitLab

ArgoCD

Terraform modules

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Sr Principal DevOps Engineer to support a large hybrid infrastructure and services running on GCP and AWS. You will own automation, architecture, performance, metrics, troubleshooting, security, and reliability in a dynamic, highly scalable environment.

You will work with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitLab, ArgoCD, and open-source tools, learning and applying what’s needed to ensure production readiness and cost efficiency across regions.