Senior DevOps SRE Engineer (Information Security)

Job 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.
Your Career
Palo Alto Networks is disrupting the Cyber Security industry! We’re definitely not business-as-usual and that goes for the talent we hire. We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a new InfoSec team that will own securing our latest SaaS and Public Cloud security management products and enterprise infrastructure. With your mad SRE skills, you’ll design, build, maintain and scale highly critical, security production services in a GCP environment as well as mentor team members. You won’t see this in most InfoSec teams in the industry and this highly visible position will help drive our goal to continue being a powerful, disruptive force in Cyber Security.
Your Impact

• Support the delivery of security capabilities for critical services. (call out delivery of shared security services across the entire company)
• Design, build, maintain, and scale production services in public cloud environments
• Write automation code for provisioning and operating infrastructure at massive scale
• Focus on operations
• Work with development teams to make sure the applications fit nicely within the infrastructure and scalability/reliability is designed and implemented from the ground up
• Develop tools for enabling CI/CD, automated testing and release management
• Troubleshoot incidents, formulate theories and test your hypothesis, and narrow down possibilities to find the root cause
• Postmortem reviews and remediation recommendation
• Mentor and train junior DevOps engineers
• Develop a solution to integrate security into the life cycle from business initiation through operational integrity
• Support the development of standards by creating templates and patterns for ease of use and increase the productivity of the security program
• Foster, and build a community of practice for collective learning of the security tools, practices, and systems across all disciplines. Skills, Abilities, Experience & Qualifications
• Integrate security practices across the continuous delivery pipeline to provide a comprehensive automated cloud and application security solution from the epic definition, development, test and deploy of CB applications within our data center and cloud providers. (call out building supportive security capabilities such as secure image repo, config repo, etc.)

Your Experience

• You’re a hands-on engineer who leads by doing
• Minimum of 8 years of industry experience with at least 2 years' experience in DevOps automation and tooling, a strong knowledge of cloud security architecture, web application security, and security engineering
• Experience with GCP (preferred) or AWS
• 3-5 years' experience with extensive exposure to numerous aspects of software development, operations, CI/CD, and information security
• You can leverage DevOps tools to build, harden, maintain and instrument a comprehensive cloud-based security orchestration platform to be consumed in product CI/CD pipelines (Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Puppet...)
• Developed automated procedures and compliance capabilities in support of DevOps processes in a large-scale AWS cloud computing environment
• Experience writing complex code, building infrastructure as code, work with immutable cloud-based environments, and build the supporting automated toolsets necessary to support the secure continuous delivery pipeline
• Experience in building scalable dashboards for monitoring and troubleshooting SaaS applications
• Ability to troubleshoot, isolate and resolve issues related to systems or networking quickly
• Knowledgeable about collecting metrics, measuring systems and interpreting data to make decisions
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize multiple issues
• Plan for work and be primarily a hands-on engineer that leads by doing.
• Take responsibility for creating design specifications and prepare technical documentation.
• Working knowledge of IP Networking, VPNs, DNS, load balancing and Firewalling
• Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university; or equivalent training, education, and experience in information/cybersecurity, computer systems, IT, etc.

The Team
Our engineering team is at the core of our products – connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating – challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don’t shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before.
We define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.
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 [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.
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