Principal Engineer - DevOps (InfoSec)
Palo Alto NetworksAbout the role
Company Description
Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:
Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.
Who We Are
We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.
As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!
Job Description
Your Career
Palo Alto Networks is disrupting the Cyber Security industry! We’re definitely not business-as-usual and that goes for the talent we hire. We’re looking for a Senior Staff DevSecOps Engineer to join our InfoSec team that owns the process of securing and delivering security for our Enterprise, SaaS, and Public Cloud security services. With your mad DevSecOps skills, you’ll build, maintain and scale highly critical, security production services in a Google Cloud Platform environment as well as collaborate with other team members. You won’t see this in most InfoSec teams in the industry and this highly visible position will help drive our goal to continue being a powerful, disruptive force in Cyber Security.
Your Impact
- Build, maintain, and scale production infrastructure and services in InfoSec cloud environments
- Work with development teams to make sure the applications fit nicely within the infrastructure and scalability/reliability is designed and implemented from the ground up
- Implement observability stack across cloud and on-prem environments
- Apply prior understanding and experience of DevOps to establish and improve adaptability, process and operational readiness
- Implement security capabilities and security services to protect Palo Alto Networks enterprise and hosting environments
- Write automation code for provisioning and operating infrastructure at massive scale
- Partner with Reliability Engineering team to create, implement and apply DevSecOps principles, processes and culture that are consumed by delivery teams
- Collaborate with application developers and database administrators to deliver creative solutions to difficult technology challenges and business requirements
- Counsel project teams, application owners, and other product team members on information security controls
- Participate in on call schedule to troubleshoot incidents, find the root cause and fix production issues to meet SLA goals
- Postmortem reviews and remediation recommendations to service teams
- Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large distributed security services
Qualifications
Your Experience
- You’re a hands-on engineer who leads by doing
- Strong knowledge of cloud security architecture, web application security, Vulnerability management, and security engineering
- Teamwork abilities - You are expected to work with various multi-disciplinary teams, so it is vital that you a are team-oriented individual with priority on the successful completion of group goals
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting and observability skills
- You have a minimum of 5 years industry experience with at least 3 years experience in DevOps automation and tooling, including cloud security
- Experienced in building and releasing infrastructure-as-code (IAC) in a controlled environment with an understanding of full lifecycle configuration management
- Experience with GCP (preferred) or AWS, and also containerized environments (Kubernetes)
- You can leverage DevOps/DevSecOps tools to build, harden, maintain and instrument a comprehensive cloud-based security orchestration platform to be consumed in product CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab, A
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