Sr Staff / Principal Site Reliability Engineer- Network & Security Operations
Palo Alto NetworksAbout the role
Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.
Who We Are
In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!
We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.Job Summary
The Team
Information Technology - Working at a high-tech cybersecurity company within Information Technology is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. You’ll join the brightest minds in technology, creating, building, and supporting tools and enabling our global teams on the front line of defense against cyberattacks. We’re connected by one mission but driven by the impact of that mission and what it means to protect our way of life in the digital age. Join a dynamic and fast-paced team of people who feel excited by the prospect of a challenge and feel a thrill at resolving technical gaps that inhibit productivity.
Job Summary
As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for Palo Alto Networks’ network and security infrastructure for all enterprise, partner, and customer facing services. We are looking for an analytical, agile, and influential leader who can quickly deliver meaningful results in a fast-paced environment. You will work with a team of senior level IaC Automation Engineers leading projects designing, implementing, and maintaining our global compute infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
Design, implement and provide support for IT infrastructure compute components
Install, support and maintain software infrastructure according to best practices, including routers, Load balancers, switches, wifi controllers, and firewalls via terraform/ansible automation
Perform network security design and integration
Diagnose problems and solve issues, often under time constraints
Implement the necessary controls and procedures to protect information systems assets from intentional or inadvertent modification, disclosure, or destruction
Ensure system uptime and backup for all IT infrastructure
Provide security incident triage and response, including working with firewall and device logs, investigating security events, protecting forensic value of data and establishing monitoring and incident reporting and response procedures
Work closely with engineering to help report issues and manage project deliverables and provide status and progress reports
Provide on-call support for Incident Management
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
8+ years of experience in IAC and infra automation tools, using Terraform & Ansible, CI/CD tools
Expert knowledge on cloud orchestration via GKE / EKS, etc, preferably on GCP
Experienced in designing and implementing Business Continuity Plans and Disaster Recovery Plans
Expert knowledge of firewall technologies (PANW preferred), including VPNs and routing
Advanced knowledge of shell scripting and programming languages such a PERL, Ruby, PHP, or Python
Advanced knowledge of DNS and DHCP, and Microsoft AD infrastructure
Strong analytical skills for interpreting business requirements and translating them into technical specifications
Strong project management, time management, and organizational skills
Excellent communication skills, in
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