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.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. 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.

Disruption is at the core of our technology and on our way of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. We’re changing the nature of work from benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

Job Description

Your Career

The Public Cloud Security team is responsible for building products that protect data, workloads, and infrastructure for some of the largest enterprise customers in the world. We help our customers in their journey to the public cloud by ensuring they have the best in class protection. The public cloud market has been growing at a very rapid rate for the last few years. As more and more enterprises leverage public cloud, there is an insatiable demand for securing workloads in public cloud. 

Your Impact

As you build your career at Palo Alto Networks you will be involved in a number of different projects and initiatives, being an integral part of the team. You will:

• 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 service reliability, scalability cost, and performance. You’ve helped create services that are critical to their customers’ success
• Develop and 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
• Participate in the occasional on-call rotation (12 hour shifts), supporting the infrastructure owned by the SRE team. Finding ways to reduce the time to resolution and improve the reliability of services is key to running a trusted platform

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Strong sense of architecture and design for fault tolerance, scale-out approaches, and stability. Practiced in the AWS Well Architected Framework or similar 
• Demonstrated experience in building tools and automation in Python or Java for large production environments
• 3+ years of working with microservice architectures running on Kubernetes and containers
• 6+ years of Unix/Linux experience (shell/tools/kernel/networking/storage)
• Tools-first mindset. You build tools for yourself and others to increase efficiency and reduce churn
• Experience with Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.
• Experience with public cloud (AWS) at medium to large scale
• Demonstrated experience in designing and building large-scale metrics and monitoring systems is a plus
• Organized, focused on building, improving, resolving and delivering
• Exceptional communicator in and across teams, taking the lead

Additional Information

The Team

The DevOps team within Prisma Cloud is responsible for the scaling and support of our multi-region, multi-cloud application. We’re a group of software engineers, site reliability engineers, and security experts that own the deployment architecture and strive to improve our infrastructure through deep partnership with other teams across the organization.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

Palo Alto Networks is evolving and changing the nature of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email protected].

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.

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer in Colorado, the starting salary (includes on-target earnings = base + on target incentives for sales roles) is expected to be between $140,100/yr - $206,000/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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

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