Sr Technical Program Manager

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Description

Your Career Palo Alto Networks is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Sr. Technical Program Manager to join our exciting, fast growing company. This dynamic individual will be the liaison between Devops engineering group and others (SW, Product etc) with a focus on high quality, on-time successful releases. This role reports to Devops Director, Cortex product You will be expected to be versed in the technical domains and be able to engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff . We are looking for someone with strong critical thinking and analytical skills, who is a self-starter, a great communicator and has demonstrated ability to build consensus at all levels, and is passionate about driving change in a dynamic fast-paced environment. Your Impact Work closely with DevOps, SRE and platform engineering teams to orchestrate end-to-end delivery of complex infrastructure and product capabilities across multiple services and environments. Serve as the primary integration point between DevOps and development teams, ensuring smooth alignment on architecture, deployment models, CI/CD processes, reliability targets, and production readiness. Partner with product management to translate high-level requirements into technical execution plans, define realistic timelines, and track cross-team commitments. Maintain a system-level understanding of all moving parts: production change process, infra upgrades, migrations, capacity plans and rollout constraints. Identify and flag technical dependencies early, particularly those affecting infrastructure, deployment flows, monitoring, and scaling requirements. Drive and define change-management processes: release planning, rollout strategies, maintenance windows, gating criteria, risk assessments, observability readiness, and post-launch validations. Coordinate sprint plans, milestones, and execution cycles across DevOps and development organizations, ensuring teams deliver aligned increments that fit into broader program roadmaps. Provide regular communication to senior engineering leadership on execution status, blockers, architectural risks, and operational concerns. Work hand-in-hand with technical leads/architects to understand deep technical topics such as Kubernetes upgrades, multi-region deployments, data-store migrations, networking changes, or infra cost optimizations.

Qualifications (Additional Job Description)

Your Experience 8+ years of engineering or technical program management experience, including 4+ years managing cross-functional infra/DevOps delivery programs at scale. Deep, hands-on understanding of SaaS DevOps domains: release orchestration, multi-region deployments, environment promotion flows, maintenance windows, incident lifecycle, change-management, and production readiness standards. Strong familiarity with Agile methodologies, sprint/iteration planning, and running large cross-team delivery cycles across infra and development organizations. Demonstrated ability to work with engineering teams to translate product and architectural requirements into detailed technical execution plans, functional specifications, test/validation criteria, and deployment strategies. Comfortable presenting program status, architecture risks, and operational considerations to SVP/VP-level leaders; able to convert complex technical execution into clear, actionable communication. Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in a technical discipline (Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems) Hands-on experience with JIRA and Confluence.

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.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.