Sr Staff Cloud Security Engineer

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. 

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. 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. 

We’re changing the nature of work. Palo Alto Networks is evolving to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks.  And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

Job Description

Your Career 

As a senior member of the Attack Surface Risk team, you will work on designing, implementing both technology and processes that will ensure the highest levels of security of our cloud infrastructure. We need a creative and innovative problem solver, who can partner with our Product and IT teams to make their services more usable without compromising on security. 

Your Impact 

• Function as the Subject Matter Expert on Cloud Compute, Network, Storage, Web Services, Architecture, and Design
• Implement and execute security policies across cloud environments including AWS SCP, GCP Organization Policy, Azure Policy, VPC-SC, along with organizational, folder, and resource level policies
• Evaluate security controls, design standards, drive changes across the organization
• Investigate and Remediate security issues across multiple clouds at scale, with a focus on automating remediation
• Participate in Design Reviews for Cloud Infrastructure security changes and standards
• Identify and drive opportunities to improve automation for code deployment, cloud configuration management, and visibility of security services
• Drive adoption of cloud security features globally
• Automate basic security enforcement tasks using code

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• 8+ years of experience in Security Engineering, Cloud Operations, or Cloud Automation
• 4+ years in DevSecOps, DevOps, Site Reliability, CI/CD, or Infrastructure Engineering
• 2+ years expertise in securing cloud computing and its related services
• Strong experience in AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud environments
• Proficient in coding/scripting languages (e.g., Python, Shell, YAML, JSON, etc.), and version control systems (e.g., GitHub, GitLab)
• Familiarity with virtualization technologies, serverless computing event-driven architectures (e.g., AWS Lambda, GCP Cloud Functions, Azure Functions), and containerization/container orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, GKE, EKS)
• Familiarity with Data Warehousing, Analysis, Manipulation, and Enrichment using technologies such as BigQuery
• Familiarity with various Web APIs such as REST API, Web Sockets, or Webhooks
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline tools like GitLab, Jenkins, Artifactory, Terraform, Helm, or Cloud Custodian
• Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, communication, and teamwork skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication, able to collaborate and rally support
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well in a team
• Self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot complex distributed systems handling high-volume transactions

Education

• Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university or equivalent training, education, and experience in information / cyber security, computer systems, IT, etc. or equivalent military experience required

Additional Information

The Team

Serious mission, fun culture; We’re not your ordinary Information Security team.  We’re a diverse group of security professionals that embraces challenging the status quo in order to protect Palo Alto Networks and our customers.  They say it’s the people you work with that make you want to go to work and it’s true here; we love our work. 

Think about it:  Driving innovation on the Information Security team of the fastest-growing high-tech cybersecurity company is a once in a lifetime opportunity. You’ll be joined by the brightest minds in technology, and our global teams are on the front line of defense against cyberattacks. 

We’re joined by one mission – but driven by the impact of that mission and what it means to protect our way of life in the digital age. Join a dynamic and fast-paced team that feels excitement at the prospect of a challenge and feels a thrill every time we beat the bad guys.

We hope to meet you soon!

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.

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 between $141,900/yr to $229,550/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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