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Sr. Cloud Automation Engineer (Cortex XDR)
Sr. Cloud Automation Engineer (Cortex XDR)-April 2024
Tel Aviv-Yafo
Apr 15, 2025
ABOUT PALO ALTO NETWORKS
Palo Alto Networks provides robust, innovative protection against cyberattacks.
10,000+ employees
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About Sr. Cloud Automation Engineer (Cortex XDR)

  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.

  Our Approach to Work

  We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

  Your Career

  We are looking for a highly talented technical individual to join the Cortex XDR infrastructure team. The team is responsible for developing automation infrastructure and various cloud based tools and platforms that are used across the research, development and QA departments to ensure the functionality, stability and quality of the XDR product, alongside the efficiency of the infrastructure and process used to build, test and deploy on various clouds and distributions.

  We believe that the platforms & infrastructure that the team provides are a critical & crucial part of our department's progress to the modern future. As a cloud infrastructure engineer you will play a pivotal role in enhancing our development and automation experience by pushing forward modern automation approaches, eliminating manual efforts and introducing new development operations for continuous integration, scale & durability.

  Your expertise will be used in areas such as infrastructure development, cloud based automation, serverless infrastructure development, automation as a service, providing technical guidance, and pushing infrastructure\configuration as a code approach across the development departments.

  To succeed in this role, you should have a strong foundation in modern automation methodologies and a comprehensive understanding of industry best practices, especially in redundancy and scalability of large systems and the ability to control them via SCM based declarative configs. You should be familiar with modern public clouds approaches and serverless based architectures, including containers and container orchestration and multiple Kubernetes based deployments. You should be comfortable engaging in complex technical discussions and advocating for optimal solutions in a fast-paced growing environment as part of our quest for continuous improvement.

  Your Impact

  Utilize modern technologies including serverless cloud services, Kubernetes, Terraform, among others, and use them all in an infrastructure/configuration as a code approach to manage everything via source code and continuous integration process

  Design and implement (hands on) the next generation of automation frameworks, platforms and tools, be part of our infrastructure transition to the cloud, and help reduce the amount of effort required to perform automatic testing and manual testing, and reduce time to market

  Develop and maintain a cloud based test execution system, that supports parallel executions on multiple operating systems and multiple cloud providers and at a very large scale

  Provide tools, systems and simulators for scaling up all lifecycle phases of our products and services including cross company and third party integrations and frameworks

  Help spread the automation agenda approach for automating away from manual efforts, alongside spreading the serverless cloud approach for working with high scale

  Your Experience

  At least 4 years of hands-on experience as on of the following -Cloud Automation Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, DevOps/GitOps Engineer

  Hands-on experience working with cloud services in main public Clouds (Azure, AWS, GCP)

  Experience with designing and implementing cloud based infrastructure (especially serverless components), alongside using infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation to automatically build and maintain the provisioned cloud infrastructure

  Strong programming skills in Python (or another high level language), with vast experience in Object-Oriented Programming, including Design Patterns, Algorithms and Data Structures

  Strong experience with containerization technologies (docker, containerd), especially with various Kubernetes deployments both on-premises and cloud based deployments

  Strong experience with SCM methodologies (especially Git) and workflows

  Experience with implementing and maintaining Continuous Integration pipelines and flows, and familiarity with CI tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar build servers

  Advantage:

  Computer Science B.Sc. or equivalent education or equivalent military experience required

  Strong experience with scripting (Bash/Groovy) and automation tools (like Ansible)

  Security background in general and security programs knowledge in particular

  Proven experience in building or maintaining automation frameworks for large scales, and experience with provisioning and managing large scales of Virtual Machines in parallel

  Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.

  Experience with relational (SQL) and non-relational databases, including backup & recovery

  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 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 [email protected] .

  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.

  #LI-MS2

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

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