Principal DevOps Engineer; Cortex- Prisma Cloud

Position: Principal DevOps Engineer (Cortex- Prisma Cloud)
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.

Our Culture

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 FLEX Benefits 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!

Job Description

Your Career

The Prisma Cloud team delivers the industry’s most advanced Cloud Sec Ops platforms. This is an opportunity to develop your Dev Ops skills at scale, learn new technologies and operational processes, and advance your career in a large scale enterprise SaaS production environment. As a member of the Prisma Cloud Dev Ops team, your role will involve operating and maintaining large‑scale AWS and GCP Production environments including databases, Infrastructure as Code and observability systems.

To meet the opportunities that such a role provides, you will have knowledge of scaling and maintaining SQL and No

SQL databases, Kafka, Terraform, and supporting all aspects of Kubernetes as well as observability and monitoring tools and practices.

Your Impact

• Gain Cloud Experience - Utilize your prior experience in maintaining cloud platforms to optimize our infrastructure

• Manage Incidents - Participate in incident management, following established processes to ensure prompt resolution of system issues, minimizing impact on services

• Implement CI/CD - Develop and maintain application deployment configuration, using tools such as Terraform and Helm

• Continuously Improve - Stay up-to-date with cutting‑edge technologies, evaluate their potential impact on our operations, and implement them when appropriate

• Participate in On‑Call - Participate in an on‑call rotation with our Dev Ops teams to provide follow‑the‑sun operational coverage in the production of our SaaS product

• Collaborate - Work with our Engineering teams to influence the operability of the product and ensure the reliability and availability of our services

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Dev Ops/SRE Experience - 8+ years of experience as a Dev Ops/SRE engineer with a passion for technology and a strong motivation for high reliability at the service level

• Data Platform Experience - Design, deployment and maintenance of SQL DBs (e.g. Postgre

SQL, MySQL) and No

SQL databases (e.g. Redis, Cassandra, Hadoop).

Experience with Kafka is preferred.

• Linux experience - A strong understanding of Linux internals allowing for quick troubleshooting

• Incident and Alerts Management - Clear understanding of incident and alerts management in Site Reliability Engineering

• Troubleshooting - Ability to effectively troubleshoot and address emerging and complex problems

• Cloud Proficiency - Proficiency in Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services or similar public cloud platform

• Kubernetes and Docker

- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration

• Scripting and Automation - Proficiency in Python programming and Linux Shell commands

• Terraform

- Experience with Terr…