Sr Manager Site Reliability Engineering (Information Security)

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.

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!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Job Description

Your Career 

We are looking for a motivated DevOps/SRE Senior Manager to join our global Infosec SRE group in our HQ at Santa Clara. The group is responsible for the reliability and availability of the production environment hosting Infosec’s services and enabling the entire Infosec group using tools, infrastructure and automations. In this role you will be a part of a group that is responsible for planning, executing and reporting of the various infrastructure and security projects, as well as managing and executing high pressure production maintenance work and issues.

As the Senior Manager for the Infosec SRE Group at HQ, you will lead a team in a cutting-edge environment. Your role is crucial in steering the development and operation of our ability to secure our products’ development, which includes:

• AWS GCP and Azure as the cloud providers
• Terraform for Infrastructure as Code
• Microservices architecture over Kubernetes
• GitOps practices
• Prometheus as the observability platform and more

As the Senior manager you will work closely with other leaders to coordinate priorities and efforts between requests from other teams, needs for the Product Security teams, FedRAMP strict infrastructure security requirements and general requests for all InfoSec teams.

Your Impact 

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Engineers, nurturing a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and collaboration
• You will take full end-to-end responsibility of the team that builds and defines automation processes for various services in Infosec
• Oversee the implementation of monitoring and alerting systems, to maintain high system performance and reliability
• Collaborate with Product teams and other cross-functional teams to integrate and refine processes, maximizing efficiency and alignment with business goals
• Ownership of Infosec cloud infrastructure, managed by our Infrastructure as code
• You will secure the production environments and add in new security tools and features both internal Palo Alto Networks and other market leading technologies
• You will work closely with product security teams to design and enhance the architecture to improve shift left scalability, service reliability, cost, and performance
• You will research cutting edge technologies and deploy them to our environment
• For our FedRAMP environment as the senior manager in place, you will act as a dedicated leader to engage with stakeholders, manage expectations, and ensure alignment with FedRAMP project objectives

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• Strong technical skills and proven industry experience (5+ years) with DevOps methodologies, tools and technologies including deep understanding of cloud security, best practices and industry trends and challenges
• 4+ years of experience in leading engineering roles at large organizations or innovative startups
• 6+ Proficient in managing cloud infrastructure, particularly with AWS and GCP, and skilled in infrastructure as code using Terraform/Terragrunt
• High proficiency in scripting, Shell scripts & Python preferred 
• High proficiency with Linux
• Establish strong relationships with internal stakeholders and peer stakeholders to understand and meet their needs while operating existing systems at a high quality
• High proficiency with virtualized and containerized environments (Kubernetes and Docker)
• Ability to grasp new technologies quickly and prioritize and multitask on multiple responsibilities
• Familiarity with Security-related infrastructure best practice and application security
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to work and coordinate between multiple teams, with a proven track record of effective team leadership and collaboration
• Navigating the complexities of the business and service reliability

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/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $175,600/yr to $284,000/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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