Palo Alto Networks
Principal Engineer Software
$147K–$238K
Office - USA - CA - Headquarters · No · Principal · Full-time · Posted Jun 25, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years specifically operating Red Hat OpenShift (OCP) in a production environment.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Not eligible for immigration sponsorship; the employer will not sponsor applicants for work visas.
About the job
Operates and maintains high-availability data center infrastructure and production OpenShift clusters, including physical GPU hardware, automation, disaster recovery, and observability.
What you'll do
- Maintain resilient data center systems and OpenShift clusters, targeting 99.99% availability.
- Design and test automated failover, backup, restoration, maintenance, and upgrade procedures.
- Install and troubleshoot GPU infrastructure, networking, power and cooling, and hardware monitoring.
What they ask for
- 5+ years operating Red Hat OpenShift (OCP) in production.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent experience.
- Advanced proficiency in Ansible or Pulumi; strong Python and Bash skills.
- Experience with high-density GPU systems and Linux administration; knowledge of networking, virtualization, and persistent storage.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with DCIM tools such as Netbox and monitoring stacks such as ELK.
- Experience with OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) or Ceph.
Pay
$147,000.00 - $237,500.00/yr (USD, base salary)
Tools
Red Hat OpenShift (OCP), OADP (Velero), Red Hat ACM, GitOps (ArgoCD), Machine Config Operator, Ansible, Pulumi, Python
AI focus
Supports specialized AI/ML hardware and high-performance GPU cluster infrastructure; no AI model development is stated.
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