Palo Alto Networks
Sr. Staff Systems Engineer (Fedramp)
$154K–$249K
Office - USA - CA - Headquarters · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Systems Engineering supporting complex, highly regulated cloud environments.
- Visa sponsorship
- No immigration sponsorship; the company will not sponsor work visas for this position.
About the job
Leads the design, automation, security, and operation of cloud infrastructure and deployment systems across regulated FedRAMP environments.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain Terraform/Ansible infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and production GKE clusters across GCP FedRAMP boundaries.
- Automate security and compliance controls, monitoring evidence, identity governance, and remediation for regulated environments.
- Lead operational resilience, change management, incident response, on-call support, and mentoring.
What they ask for
- Deep hands-on GCP experience, including GCP Assured Workloads, Cloud IAM, and VPC Service Controls.
- Expertise operating production GKE or Kubernetes and building modular infrastructure automation with Terraform and configuration management tools such as Ansible.
- Experience securing enterprise CI/CD pipelines and implementing controls aligned to FedRAMP Moderate/High and/or DoD Cloud Computing SRG IL4/IL5.
- Fluency in Python and Bash; U.S. citizenship and ability to pass required background checks and security investigations.
Nice to have
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer, or CKA certification.
- Familiarity with BigQuery, Anthos Service Mesh, Golang, or Rust.
Pay
$153,700.00 - $248,600.00/yr (base salary)
Tools
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), GCP Assured Workloads, Terraform, Ansible, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Python, Bash, BigQuery
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