Palo Alto Networks
Principal DevOps Engineer (US Citizen)
$151K–$244K
Office - USA - CA - Headquarters · No · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Architecture, with a track record of owning large-scale, business-critical production environments.
- Visa sponsorship
- Immigration sponsorship is not available; the company will not sponsor work visas for this position.
About the job
Architect and optimize Palo Alto Networks’ large-scale, multi-region GCP Cortex infrastructure, setting DevOps standards and improving the platform’s reliability, security, delivery, and cost efficiency.
What you'll do
- Design and govern global cloud infrastructure and reusable Terraform architectures.
- Architect secure, resilient CI/CD workflows and advise product teams on scalable, observable cloud-native services.
- Lead incident reviews and reliability improvements, optimize cloud costs, and develop internal automation and tooling.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS), including networking, IAM, and multi-region architectures.
- Expert-level Kubernetes mastery and proficiency in Python or Go, Linux internals, shell scripting, and Terraform.
- Architectural understanding of enterprise CI/CD pipelines and GitOps methodologies.
- Experience designing platform-wide observability strategies using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and PagerDuty.
Nice to have
- Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and align technical roadmaps across distributed teams.
- Strong troubleshooting skills for complex distributed systems, networking, and cloud infrastructure.
Pay
$151,000.00 - $244,200.00/yr (USD, base salary)
Tools
GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, GKE/EKS, Terraform, Python, Go, GitLab CI
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