Principal Platformatization Cloud Engineer (CDSS - Cloud Delivered Security Services)

Principal Platformatization Cloud Engineer (CDSS - Cloud Delivered Security Services)

Full-time

Department: DevOps

Job Country: United States of America

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!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

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

Your Experience

• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 7+ 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/SLO compliance
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with setting up and troubleshooting Nginx or Ingress Nginx
• Hands-on production experience with Kafka, MongoDB, Amazon Redshift, BigQuery;
• Expertise in tuning, performance, and guiding long-term strategy for self-hosted or managed solutions a strong plus.
• The exceptional communicator in and across teams, taking the lead.
• Evaluate and integrate AI-powered tools to streamline workflows and boost productivity.