Senior Principal DevOps Engineer — AI Security Platform

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 178,000 - 287,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking a Senior Principal DevOps Engineer to join the Prisma AIRS shared services team. You will be a technical leader whose influence extends across the entire Prisma AIRS organization.

You won't just operate infrastructure; you'll build the platform that defines how we build and ship software, and you'll set the technical direction that other engineers build on. We are looking for a leader who can architect secure, scalable cloud infrastructure on Kubernetes with

Qualifications

• 10+ years of DevOps/SRE/cloud platform engineering experience.
• Hands-on IaC with Terraform/Helm and major cloud providers (GCP preferred).
• Kubernetes in large-scale production and GitOps/CI/CD with Argo/GitLab CI.

Responsibilities

• Build and evangelize a cohesive Internal Developer Platform to accelerate production.
• Drive GitOps adoption and automated deployment pipelines with Argo/GitLab CI.
• Set standards for Kubernetes and GCP best practices across Prisma AIRS.
• Architect and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure with high availability.
• Mentor engineers and raise automation and reliability across teams.

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Crossplane/ACK/KCC

Kubernetes

GCP

AWS

GitLab CI

Argo CD

Argo Rollouts

Terraform providers

Python (typed)

Go

BASH

rego

KCC

Job description

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking a Senior Principal DevOps Engineer to join the Prisma AIRS shared services team. You will be a technical leader whose influence extends across the entire Prisma AIRS organization.

You won't just operate infrastructure; you'll build the platform that defines how we build and ship software, and you'll set the technical direction that other engineers build on. We are looking for a leader who can architect secure, scalable cloud infrastructure on Kubernetes with