Principal DevOps Engineer (Unit 42)

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.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Job Description

Your Career

Unit 42 has best-in-industry security consultants to support enterprises and organizations through their cybersecurity journeys. As a Principal DevOps Engineer, you will own the cloud infrastructure and deployment methodology to deliver the customer-facing system that scales across personas, internal and external, and geos. It is expected that this individual is able to deliver for the different applications and use cases needed to support the business. As a fast moving organization, we are looking for a self-starter to bootstrap and drive our use of public cloud infrastructure, monitoring and reliability.

Palo Alto Networks is looking for a talented Cloud Ops Principal Engineer. This individual will help design, build and operate Unit 42 cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.

Your Impact

• You will take full end-to-end responsibility for the non-production and production environments of our SaaS product deployed on GCP
• You will build tools for the automatic remediation of known issues
• You will develop Infrastructure-as-code which will be used to orchestrate production and dev environments
• You will design, build, maintain, and scale production services with Kubernetes clusters
• You will secure the production environments and add in new security tools and features both internal Palo Alto Networks and other market-leading technologies
• You will work closely with development teams to design and enhance software architecture to improve scalability, service reliability, cost, and performance
• You will build CI pipelines and automation processes
• Participate in the on-call rotation supporting the applications and infrastructure
• You will research cutting-edge technologies and deploy them to production

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 6+ years as DevOps Engineer (or equal role) with a passion for technology and strong motivation and responsibility for high reliability and service level
• High proficiency with code language (Python and Go - preferred)
• High proficiency in the cloud (GCP - preferred)
• High proficiency with Terraform and HashiCorp tools
• High proficiency with CI/CD and Configuration Management (GitLab CI preferred)
• Strong Linux server / app maintenance skills and debug techniques to triage with stats and metrics from multiple sources
• Strong security minded with in-depth knowledge in various cloud security technologies such as Firewall, DDoS mitigation, Pen Testing, Authentication, and etc
• Strong experience in metrics/monitoring systems, i.e. Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB, etc. 
• Proficiency with virtualized and containerized environments (Kubernetes and Docker)
• Proficiency with DB such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Cassandra - An advantage
• Proficiency with automation testing tools and services, i.e. Puppeteer, Selenium, Cypress
• Knowledge of modern microservice architectures - An advantage 
• Experience with working with internal and external customers and stakeholders
• Experience with managing a high-scale production environment
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to work and coordinate between multiple teams
• Ability to grasp new technologies quickly and prioritize and multitask on multiple responsibilities
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