Palo Alto Networks
Sr Principal DevOps Engineer (Prisma AIRS)
$178K–$287K
Office - USA - CA - Headquarters · No · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Platform Engineering.
- Education
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Immigration sponsorship: Yes
About the job
Leads the design and operation of Prisma AIRS’s shared cloud platform, developer tooling, delivery systems, and infrastructure standards.
What you'll do
- Build and promote an Internal Developer Platform and self-service automation that improves engineering safety and speed.
- Drive GitOps, progressive delivery, and secure, highly available cloud infrastructure across Prisma AIRS.
- Set platform architecture and technical direction, manage GPU/TPU resources, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Platform Engineering, including large-scale cloud infrastructure.
- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code and a major cloud provider; deep Kubernetes experience and typed Python platform tooling.
- Production experience with Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, and GitLab CI.
- Strong debugging skills across Linux, networking, application performance, and distributed systems; demonstrated ownership and collaboration.
Nice to have
- MLOps experience with GPU-accelerated inference, model serving, or LLMOps.
- Experience with observability, cloud security compliance, Go, or AI coding assistants.
Pay
$177,500.00 - $287,100.00/yr (USD, base salary)
Tools
GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Python, Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, GitLab CI
AI focus
Builds infrastructure for an AI security platform; preferred work includes GPU-accelerated inference, model serving, MLOps, and LLMOps. The posting also mentions using AI coding assistants such as Claude.
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