Sr Staff Platformatization Cloud Engineer (CDSS - Cloud Delivered Security Services)

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 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 Description

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks CDSS group is looking for a seasoned platformization and cloud automation  engineer to design, develop and deliver next-generation technologies within our CASB teams. We  are looking for leaders who take ownership of their area of focus, and who are driven to solve  challenging technical problems using best practices, and state of the art technologies.  Collaboration and teamwork are at the foundation of our culture, and we need engineers who  can communicate at a high level, and work well with others towards achieving a common goal. If  you have the passion to solve challenging cloud infrastructure and DevOps engineering  problems, if you are interested in pushing your boundaries as an engineer, and working at the  cusp of delivering Data Security at huge scale, and state of the art technologies within a quality  focussed dynamic engineering culture, talk to us.  

Your Impact  

• Work with development teams to ensure that applications have scalability and reliability built-in from day one - agile is second nature to you and you’re excited to work in scrum teams and represent the DevOps perspective  
• Design, review and enhance software architecture to improve scalability, service reliability, cost, and performance - you’ve helped create services that are critical to their  customers’ success  
• Drive platformization by building standardized, self-service infrastructure platforms that improve developer productivity, scalability, and operational efficiency.  
• Deploy automation for provisioning and operating infrastructure at large scale. You are experienced in cloud Infrastructure as Code concepts and have put them into production 
• Partner with teams to improve CI/CD processes and technology - Helping teams in  delivering value early is what you strive for 
• Mentor members of the staff on large scale cloud deployments - you’re an expert in deploying in the cloud and can bring a teaching mindset to help others benefit from your experience  
• Drive the adoption of observability practices and a data-driven mindset - you love metrics, graphs, and gaining a deep understanding of why things happen in a system, helping others gain visibility into the things they build  
• Setup processes like on-call rotations, Postmortems, Run books to continue supporting the infrastructure owned by the SRE team while finding ways to reduce the time to  resolution and improve the reliability of services  
• Support, optimize and deploy mission critical, front-end and back-end production
• Improving site performance, monitoring, and overall stability of our infrastructure  

Qualifications

• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field  
• 5+ years of industry experience in engineering  
• Fluent scripting skills (preferably Python or Bash) with deep experience in Unix/Linux  systems from kernel to shell and beyond.  
• 4+ years of working with Microservices architectures on Kubernetes 
• HandsOn experience with container native tools like Docker, Helm for managing  workloads running in Kubernetes.  
• Experience managing AWS and GCP at scale, with knowledge of cloud-neutral  connectivity between platforms.  
• Experience designing and maintaining API specifications using Swagger/OpenAPI, and  working with API frameworks such as Apigee to enable secure, scalable integrations. 
• HandsOn experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as  Terraform, Ansible, etc.  
• Proficient in CI/CD platforms like GitlabCI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, CircleCI etc. 
• In-depth knowledge of operating systems (processes, threads, concurrency, etc) 
• Implement and enforce network and cloud security best practices, serving as a security  champion within the team.  
• Drive observability initiatives by implementing distributed tracing, standardized logging,  dashboards, and profiling, leveraging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and  OpenTelemetry to ensure SLA/