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Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Site Reliability/Production Engineers, providing technical direction, coaching, and career development.
Own the reliability, availability, and operational health of critical Cortex services and infrastructure.
Drive improvements in monitoring, alerting, incident management, and observability to identify and resolve issues before they impact customers.
Lead major production incidents, ensure effective root cause analysis, and drive corrective and preventive actions.
Partner with Engineering teams to improve service architecture, production readiness, scalability, and operability.
Drive automation and self-healing solutions to reduce operational toil and improve engineering efficiency.
Establish clear priorities, operational processes, and measurable reliability goals for the team.
Collaborate with Production Engineering teams across regions to strengthen follow-the-sun operations and consistent operational practices.
Evaluate new technologies and drive adoption of solutions that improve reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Production Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, or related areas, including experience leading or managing engineering teams.
Strong technical knowledge of cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Strong experience with Kubernetes, containerized environments, and large-scale distributed systems.
Experience with observability technologies such as Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and cloud-native monitoring solutions.
Strong understanding of incident management, monitoring, alerting, SLOs, and reliability engineering practices.
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Compensation Disclosure
The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
Our Commitment
We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.
Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.
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Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company. It develops platforms and services that help organizations protect networks, cloud environments, endpoints and security operations, and it also provides threat intelligence and incident response services.
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