Senior Principal DevOps Engineer - Multi-Cloud SRE Leader

Palo Alto Networks; California; Hybrid; USD 178,000 - 287,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Senior Principal DevOps Engineer to support a hybrid infrastructure stack including Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, AWS, and numerous tooling. You will help define SRE strategy, architect multi-region systems, and drive reliability metrics across teams.

The role emphasizes incident leadership, mentoring, and building scalable, secure platforms with a focus on automation and cost efficiency. Ideal for a senior engineer eager to influence at scale.

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 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.

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

Leadership

Communication

Incident management

Cross-team collaboration

Mentoring

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Kubernetes

GitLab

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Senior Principal DevOps Engineer to support a hybrid infrastructure stack including Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, AWS, and numerous tooling. You will help define SRE strategy, architect multi-region systems, and drive reliability metrics across teams.

The role emphasizes incident leadership, mentoring, and building scalable, secure platforms with a focus on automation and cost efficiency. Ideal for a senior engineer eager to influence at scale.