DevOps Engineer (Cortex Research)

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

Job Description

Your Career

As a Staff DevOps Engineer supporting our Research Group, you will lead all DevOps and infrastructure initiatives that empower our researchers to move quickly, securely, and reliably. You will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the group’s cloud environments, ensuring scalability, stability, and performance across a wide range of experimental and production workloads.

You’ll serve as the primary point of contact between the Research Group and other critical stakeholders—including Security, Networking, Compliance, and Platform teams—ensuring that research projects align with organizational standards while still enabling innovation at a rapid pace.

Your Impact

Own and evolve the Research Group’s infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, enabling reproducible, automated, and scalable experimentation.

Partner with security and compliance teams to enforce best practices around data governance, access controls, and regulatory requirements.

Collaborate with networking and platform engineers to integrate research workloads into the broader company ecosystem.

Mentor engineers and researchers on DevOps best practices, helping to instill a culture of operational excellence in the research domain.

Define and implement standards for infrastructure-as-code, observability, monitoring, and resource optimization tailored to research use cases.

Balance technical depth with cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

Your Experience

3+ years of experience supporting systems in cloud environments.

Strong hands-on experience with Linux systems and networking fundamentals.

Solid experience with cloud platforms (GCP preferred).

Hands-on experience running Kubernetes workloads.

Expertise with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code principles.

Strong scripting skills (e.g., Python, Bash) to build automation and tooling.

Experience leading cross-team projects.

Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Experience with GCP Composer/Apache AirFlow - advantage.

Additional Information

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyber attacks. We are constantly innovating — challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don’t shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before. We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that 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.