Senior Platform SRE & DevOps Engineer

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 297,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. 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 for inline engines, data pipelines, and AI models globally. You will work on high-scale Kubernetes clusters on Google Cloud, deploy core GCP data services like Bigtable and BigQuery, and implement IaC and CI/CD practices to ensure reliability and

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Cloud Platform Engineering.
• Deep, hands-on expertise with Kubernetes (GKE), container runtime environments, and service mesh architectures.
• Extensive production experience with ArgoCD for continuous delivery and GitLab CI/CD for automating complex software delivery pipelines.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform or similar IaC tools.
• Direct experience administering and performance-tuning GCP Bigtable (BT) and BigQuery (BQ) in high-throughput environments.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or Bash for automation.
• Experience with cloud-native monitoring systems (Prometheus, Grafana, or GCP Cloud Monitoring).
• Familiarity with cloud security compliance, IAM controls, and securing container workloads.

Responsibilities

• Architect, configure, and maintain high-scale Kubernetes clusters on Google Cloud Platform, optimizing for performance, resource utilization, and secure network isolation.
• Deploy, scale, and optimize core GCP managed data services, specifically Bigtable (for low-latency streaming telemetry) and BigQuery (for large-scale data analytics).
• Design and implement robust Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions to manage global multi-region environments deterministically.
• Build and support robust CI/CD deployment pipelines, automated validation gates, and version pinning configurations for our platform microservices.
• Partner with Data Plane and Data Pipeline engineers to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize resource bounds, ensuring sub-millisecond data processing stability.
• Drive site reliability engineering (SRE) practices, establishing observability dashboards, metrics collection, and proactive alerting frameworks.

Job description

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. 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 for inline engines, data pipelines, and AI models globally. You will work on high-scale Kubernetes clusters on Google Cloud, deploy core GCP data services like Bigtable and BigQuery, and implement IaC and CI/CD practices to ensure reliability and