Senior DevOps Engineer DevOps & Release

About This Role

This engineering role focuses on ensuring the reliability, scalability, availability, and operational efficiency of a large-scale cloud platform within the Cortex team. It involves hands-on work with complex production systems, leading critical infrastructure, reliability, observability, and automation initiatives, and partnering with engineering teams to solve production challenges. The role suits a Senior Staff DevOps Engineer with strong technical depth and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate highly available and scalable cloud infrastructure supporting critical Cortex services
• Lead complex DevOps, infrastructure, reliability, and automation initiatives from design through production implementation
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, networking, storage, and distributed systems
• Improve platform reliability through better monitoring, alerting, observability, capacity management, and operational practices
• Build automation and self-healing capabilities that reduce manual operational work and improve incident response
• Partner with application and platform engineering teams to improve production readiness, scalability, and service architecture
• Participate in and provide technical leadership during high-severity production incidents, including root cause analysis and corrective actions
• Design and improve Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and GitOps-based deployment and infrastructure management
• Identify recurring operational problems and drive engineering solutions that permanently eliminate or reduce them
• Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, conduct design reviews, and help establish engineering best practices
• Influence technical decisions across teams and drive adoption of scalable and reliable engineering solutions
• Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-assisted operations and automation, that can improve engineering productivity and operational efficiency

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, Cloud

About the Company

Palo Alto Networks is united by a shared mission to protect the digital way of life, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology. The company thrives at the intersection of innovation and impact, weaving AI into the fabric of everything it does to augment individual impact.