Senior SRE & Platform Architect – Multi-Cloud

Palo Alto Networks; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 246,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Sr Principal DevOps Engineer to join our hybrid infrastructure team. You will drive SRE and platform engineering strategy, architect multi‑region, multi‑cloud systems (GCP/AWS), and govern reliability across teams.

You will shape platform abstractions with Terraform, Kubernetes, and GitOps while ensuring observability, security, and cost optimization at scale. Strong leadership and incident management are essential.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering.
• Experience building and operating large‑scale distributed systems on AWS/GCP.
• Proven experience driving cross‑team or org‑level technical initiatives.
• Strong expertise in IaC frameworks such as Terraform, Helm, or similar.
• Deep experience in automation (Python, Go, shell scripting).

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

Infrastructure

SRE

DevOps

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Terraform

GitOps

Linux

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Kubernetes

GitLab

Spinnaker

ArgoCD

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Sr Principal DevOps Engineer to join our hybrid infrastructure team. You will drive SRE and platform engineering strategy, architect multi‑region, multi‑cloud systems (GCP/AWS), and govern reliability across teams.

You will shape platform abstractions with Terraform, Kubernetes, and GitOps while ensuring observability, security, and cost optimization at scale. Strong leadership and incident management are essential.