Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting digital systems and advancing secure technology. The Senior Principal DevOps Engineer will accelerate developer productivity across the CI/CD lifecycle by designing platform-oriented infrastructure and tooling, improving security and governance, and leading technical initiatives. The role also involves mentoring engineers, collaborating with product teams, and managing projects from conception through delivery.
Responsibilities
- Define architecture and requirements for initiatives focused on accelerating productivity across the CI/CD lifecycle and improving security posture
- Architect and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure internal tooling via infrastructure as code
- Mentor and coach engineers, imparting wisdom and best practices into the team’s DNA as a subject matter expert
- Ensure code quality, delivery timelines, and satisfaction of stakeholders across your work
- Manage projects from conception to delivery, including requirements gathering, planning work, and performing work
Skills
- 8+ years of hands-on technical experience working as an infrastructure or platform developer
- Significant development experience with the following: Python, Groovy, Bash
- Deep knowledge and experience in cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud (AWS Preferred)
- Experience with Containers and Orchestrators (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, etc.)
- Experience with CI/CD Tools and IaC languages (e.g. Jenkins, Git, Terraform, etc.)
- Experience with building the full application release cycle (CI/CD)
- Experience with being a power user of AI and building AI-based automations
- Knowledge of operating system administration (Both windows and linux)
- Excellent design and analytical skills
- Creative troubleshooting skills and out-of-the-box thinking
- Experience aligning expectations across multiple stakeholders at multiple levels of the business
- Requires US Citizen or GreenCard to met requirements for regulatory compliance
- Must be available during Eastern Time Zone business hours
- Strong communication skills, team player
- Open-minded and creative – a problem-solver
- A thorough and methodical approach to any task, ability to plan, conduct, prioritize, track and measure processes
- Decision-making skills: taking into account both architectural and business considerations, at times with incomplete information
- Strong ability to use new technologies and understand them in depth through rapid self-learning
- Proactive by nature; internal drive for excellence and improvement
- Highly motivated, autonomous
- Fluent in English, good writing skills
- Experience with MCP, AWS Bedrock, Agentic AI, or RAG solutions
- BA/BS in Computer Science
- Experience in testing methodologies and developing tests (e.g Unit tests, integration tests, system tests)
- Strong networking foundations (TCP/IP, DNS, Network Protocols, Routing)
- Security principles and techniques (Risk management, Threat modeling, secure configuration)
- Database usage experience and understanding
- Experience with Agile development and practices
- Professional certifications
Benefits
- The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus.
- Most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed.
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