Senior Staff DevOps Engineer - Cloud Reliability Automation

Jobs Paloaltonetworks; California (MO); On-site; USD 133,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Senior Staff DevOps Engineer for the Cortex Production Engineering team to ensure the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our cloud platform. You will work hands-on with complex production systems while leading critical infrastructure, reliability, observability, and automation initiatives.

You will partner with engineering teams to solve production challenges, improve platform architecture and operational readiness, and build automation that reduces toil.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Production Engineering or related areas.
• Strong hands-on experience operating large-scale production environments.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation technologies such as Terraform, Python, and GitOps.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD systems and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience with observability technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across Kubernetes, Linux, networking, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex DevOps, infrastructure, reliability, and automation initiatives across multiple teams.
• Troubleshoot production issues across Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure with a focus on reliability.
• Improve platform observability, monitoring, and incident response capabilities.
• Design and operate IaC, CI/CD, and GitOps-based deployment workflows.
• Mentor engineers and drive engineering best practices across teams.

Skills

Kubernetes

Public cloud (GCP)

Terraform

CI/CD

Go

Python

GitOps

Observability

Incident management

Automation

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Senior Staff DevOps Engineer for the Cortex Production Engineering team to ensure the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our cloud platform. You will work hands-on with complex production systems while leading critical infrastructure, reliability, observability, and automation initiatives.

You will partner with engineering teams to solve production challenges, improve platform architecture and operational readiness, and build automation that reduces toil.