Sr Site Reliability Engineer

Your Career

The Public Cloud Security team is responsible for building products that protect data, workloads, and infrastructure for some of the largest enterprise customers in the world. We help our customers in their journey to the public cloud by ensuring they have the best in class protection. The public cloud market has been growing at a very rapid rate for the last few years. As more and more enterprises leverage public cloud, there is an insatiable demand for securing workloads in public cloud. With the recent acquisition of two leading companies in this space - RedLock and Evident.io, Palo Alto Networks is the market leader in this space.

Your Impact

As you build your career at Palo Alto Networks you will be involved in a number of different projects and initiatives, being an integral part of the team. You will:

• Work with development teams to ensure that applications have scalability and reliability built-in from day one - Agile is second nature to you and you’re excited to work in scrum teams and represent the SRE perspective
• Design and enhance software architecture to improve scalability, service reliability, cost, and performance - You’ve helped create services that are critical to their customers’ success
• Deploy automation for provisioning and operating infrastructure at large scale - You are experienced in Infrastructure as Code concepts and have put them into production
• Partner with teams to improve CI/CD processes and technology - Helping teams in delivering value early is what you strive for
• Mentor members of the staff on large scale cloud deployments - You’re an expert in deploying in the cloud and can bring a teaching mindset to help others benefit from your experience
• Drive the adoption of observability practices and a data-driven mindset - You love metrics, graphs, and gaining a deep understanding of why things happen in a system, helping others gain visibility into the things they build
• Participate in the occasional on-call rotation supporting the infrastructure owned by the SRE team - Finding ways to reduce the time to resolution and improve the reliability of services is key to running a trusted platform

Requirements

Your Experience

• BE/B.tech Engineering or relevant technical degree or equivalent military experience required
• 5+ years of total experience with Unix/Linux experience (shell/tools/kernel/networking/storage)
• 2+ years of working with microservice architectures running on Kubernetes and containers
• Strong sense of architecture and design for fault tolerance, scale-out approaches, and stability. Practiced in the AWS Well Architected Framework or similar
• Demonstrated experience in building tools and automation in Python or Java for large production environments
• Tools-first mindset - You build tools for yourself and others to increase efficiency and reduce churn
• Experience with Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code - Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.
• Experience with public cloud (AWS or GCP highly preferred) at medium to large scale
• Demonstrated experience in designing and building large-scale metrics and monitoring systems is a plus
• Organized, focused on building, improving, resolving and delivering
• Exceptional communicator in and across teams, taking the lead
• Contribute to the success of SRE and DevOps
• Develop expertise in new technologies
• Work with developers, researchers, data scientists, and security experts Design, build and operate reliable, secure Cloud infrastructure
• Ensure that applications are production-ready, scalable, and reliable Develop tools and automation frameworks
• Automate robust deployment of robust services
• Orchestrate end-to-end monitoring and alerting
• Mentor and champion SRE culture
• Participate in design reviews