Senior Principal DevOps & Platform Reliability Engineer

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); Vor Ort; USD 178.000 - 287.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Palo Alto Networks, in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a Sr Principal DevOps Engineer to join a large hybrid infrastructure team and support services at scale. You will lead automation, architecture, performance, security, and reliability across multi-cloud environments (GCP & AWS) using Kubernetes, Terraform, GitLab, and GitOps tooling.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive end-to-end observability, and set engineering standards while ensuring production systems are scalable, secure, and

Qualifikationen

• 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.
• Strong ownership, with focus on scalability, reliability, and long-term architecture.

Aufgaben

• 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.

Kenntnisse

SRE leadership

Large-scale systems

Terraform

Helm

Automation

Kubernetes at scale

Linux networking

CI/CD

GitOps

Observability

Incident management

Mentoring & leadership

Architecture & scalability

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

GCP

AWS

Ansible

Terraform

Vault

GitLab

Spinnaker

TensorFlow

Datadog

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Hadoop

MySQL

Percona

MongoDB

Python

Go

Jobbeschreibung

Palo Alto Networks, in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a Sr Principal DevOps Engineer to join a large hybrid infrastructure team and support services at scale. You will lead automation, architecture, performance, security, and reliability across multi-cloud environments (GCP & AWS) using Kubernetes, Terraform, GitLab, and GitOps tooling.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive end-to-end observability, and set engineering standards while ensuring production systems are scalable, secure, and