Principal DevOps Engineer (DLP)

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!

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 DLP (Data Loss Prevention) group is looking for a seasoned DevOps engineer to design, develop and deliver next-generation technologies within our DLP 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 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 SRE perspective
• Design and enhance software architecture to improve scalability, service reliability, cost, and performance- you've helped create services that are critical to their customers' success
• Deploy automation for provisioning and operating infrastructure at large scale. You are experienced in 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, runbooks 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.
• 8+ years of related experience in engineering.
• Experience in driving development team on service quality and service resilience; set up strong SLA, SLO, KPI.
• Fluent Scripting skills preferably Python or Bash
• 5+ years of working with Microservices architectures on Kubernetes
• HandsOn experience with container native tools like Helm, Istio, Vault for managing workloads running in Kubernetes.
• Experience with public cloud (AWS or Google Cloud Platform/Google cloud or Azure) at medium to large scale
• Proficient in CI/CD platforms like GitlabCI, Jenkins, CircleCI etc
• In-depth knowledge of operating systems (processes, threads, concurrency, etc)
• Excellent experience working with Unix/Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond
• Drive enhancement of observability by implementing distributed tracing, logging standards, dashboard standardization, profiling, and other relevant practices to meet current Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
• HandOn experience with Monitoring tools - Prometheus, Grafana etc.
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Postgres tuning and performance a huge plus
• Lead the long-term strategy on critical components like Kafka, ElasticSearch, Postgres, MongoDB etc, evaluating options for either reliable self-hosted or managed solutions. HandOn production experience with at least one of these is required.
• The exceptional communicator in and across teams, taking the lead

Additional Information

The Team

Our engineering team is provided with an unrivaled opportunity to build the products and practices that will support our company growth over the next decade, defining the cybersecurity industry as we know it. If you see the potential of how incredible people products can transform a business, this is the team for you. If you don't wait for directions, instead, identifying new features and opportunities we have to just get better, this is your new career.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $0 - $0/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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Our Commitment

We're problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity's status quo. It's simple: we can't accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

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Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.