Senior Principal DevOps Architect | Multi-Cloud SRE Leader

Jobs Paloaltonetworks; California; On-site; USD 178,000 - 287,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks runs a large hybrid infrastructure and is one of the largest GCP customers. As a Sr Principal DevOps Engineer, you will be part of a team supporting the services running on this infrastructure.

This includes automation, architecture, performance, metrics, troubleshooting, security, and reliability. Our stack includes Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, AWS, Ansible, Terraform, Vault, Gitlab, Spinnaker, Tensorflow, Datadog, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Hadoop, MySQL, Percona, MongoDB, Python,

Qualifications

• 12–15+ years in Infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering.
• 8–10+ years building and operating large‑scale distributed systems on AWS/GCP.
• Proven experience driving cross‑team or org‑level initiatives.
• Strong expertise in Terraform, Helm, or similar IaC tools.
• Deep experience in automation (Python, Go, shell scripting).
• Hands‑on Kubernetes at scale with CI/CD (GitLab) and GitOps (ArgoCD).
• Observability focus with Prometheus/Grafana/Loki and robust incident management.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive org‑level SRE and platform engineering strategy.
• Architect multi‑region, multi‑cloud systems with high availability.
• Establish SLO/SLI standards, error budgets, reliability governance.
• Lead design of platform abstractions (Terraform modules, Kubernetes platforms, GitOps).
• Drive end‑to‑end observability and reduce MTTR at scale.
• Ensure production‑readiness, security, and cost optimization.
• Lead Sev‑1 incidents, RCA, and executive‑level communication.
• Mentor senior engineers and set engineering standards.

Skills

Infrastructure

SRE

DevOps

Systems Engineering

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Python

Go

Linux

Networking

GitLab

GitOps

Observability

Incident management

Leadership

Tools

GitLab

ArgoCD

Terraform

Helm

Docker

Go

Python

Linux

Job description

Palo Alto Networks runs a large hybrid infrastructure and is one of the largest GCP customers. As a Sr Principal DevOps Engineer, you will be part of a team supporting the services running on this infrastructure.

This includes automation, architecture, performance, metrics, troubleshooting, security, and reliability. Our stack includes Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, AWS, Ansible, Terraform, Vault, Gitlab, Spinnaker, Tensorflow, Datadog, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Hadoop, MySQL, Percona, MongoDB, Python,