Revolutionizing protection.

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

The Cortex team builds and delivers the industry’s most advanced SecOps platform, consisting of XDR, XSIAM, XSOAR, and XPANSE. As a member of the Cortex DevOps team, your role involves operating, automating, and optimizing a large-scale GCP environment.

To meet the opportunities that such a role provides, you will possess a versatile, all-around DevOps skillset—spanning infrastructure as code, container orchestration, system reliability, and an understanding of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) principles. As part of this role, you will collaborate closely with our engineering teams and specialized CI/CD groups to build resilient infrastructure, reduce deployment friction, and ensure our services are scalable, secure, and highly available.

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Automation:Provision, manage, and scale cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and tools like Terraform and Ansible.

• DevOps & CI/CD Collaboration:Partner with engineering and specialized pipeline teams to support and troubleshoot CI/CD workflows, ensuring the smooth and rapid deployment of services.

• Cloud Environment Optimization:Utilize your expertise in cloud platforms, particularly GCP, to optimize our infrastructure for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.

• Consultative Engineering: Work with our Engineering team to influence the operability of the product, ensuring applications are architected with containerization, scalability, and best practices in mind.

• Reliability & Incident Management:Leverage incident management processes to ensure efficient resolution of system issues, participating in operational coverage to maintain system availability and minimize service impact.

• Tooling & Automation:Automate complex operational tasks by building internal tools for cloud operations, automated remediation of known issues, and auto-scaling.

• Continuous Improvement:Stay up-to-date with cutting-edge technologies, evaluate their potential impact on our operations, and implement them when appropriate.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experienceas a DevOps/SRE engineer with a versatile skillset and a strong motivation for high reliability at the service level.

• Cloud Platforms:High proficiency in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS).

• Containerization:High proficiency with Kubernetes and Docker for container orchestration.

• Scripting & IaC:High proficiency in Python programming and Linux Shell commands. Deep experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code.

• CI/CD Knowledge: Strong understanding of software delivery pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and how they interact with cloud infrastructure.

• Observability & Alerting: Solid understanding of modern monitoring, incident, and alert management using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty.

Preferred Qualifications

• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work and coordinate between multiple teams in different time zones.

• Ability to effectively troubleshoot and address complex infrastructure, networking, and deployment problems.

• Ability to operate independently, make sound architectural decisions, take action, and take responsibility.

#LI-NP1

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

$126,000.00 - $203,500.00/yr

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.