Senior Staff DevOps Engineer (Secure Cloud Access)

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Summary

As part of your role, you will design, implement, and deploy products and infrastructures that will directly increase our stability and quality while reducing our time to market.
Have end-to-end ownership from individual development environments, SCM, Build/CI server, to our production system on AWS.
Design and manage Continuous Integration/Deployment Services (build, packaging and deployment).
Design, document, implement and maintain scripts to enhance current and future build and release processes.
Incorporate new development projects into existing build structures.
Continually evaluate tools and technologies to improve the overall release process.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a DevOps engineer or Site Reliability Engineer.
• Deep knowledge and experience in cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Strong hands-on experience operating production workloads on AWS, with a clear emphasis on serverless. systems built around Lambda, alongside services such as DynamoDB, OpenSearch, S3, API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, CloudFront, IAM, and CloudWatch.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g.Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation) including understanding of stack lifecycle, changes, and operational impact.
• Experience with Containers and Orchestrators (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/ECR, Kaniko etc.), including ownership of container build and delivery workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD Tools and Configuration Management Systems (e.g. Jenkins, Git, Ansible, Terraform, etc.) including multi-environment deployments, promotion flows, and safe rollout strategies.
• Practical experience with backups, restores, rollbacks, high-availability design, disaster recovery planning, and operating systems across multiple AWS regions.
• Hands-on experience building dashboards, defining monitors and alerts, instrumenting deployments with events, and managing large-scale alerting setups (e.g., Datadog [preferably] , CloudWatch, PagerDuty).
• Good understanding and ability to manage and append Networking on cloud and cloud topology.
• Good script skills - Bash and Python.
• Mentors others, sets technical standards, and helps raise the DevOps maturity of the team.
• Decision-making skills: taking into account both architectural and business considerations, at times with incomplete information.
• Proactive by nature; internal drive for excellence and improvement.
• Used to owning systems end to end, including on-call participation, incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term stability improvements.
• Focused on reducing manual operational work by building automation and tooling that enables development teams safely.
• Strong ability to use new technologies and understand them in depth through rapid self-learning.
• Fluent in English, good writing skills.

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.

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  accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.