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# Sr Staff Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Palo Alto Networks
- **Location:** Madrid, Spain
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Github, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Systems Architecture, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, Grafana, Multi-Cloud, Reliability of Systems, Gitlab-ci, Git Flow, Kubernetes, Terraform, Pagerduty, Jenkins
- **Published:** October 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/2481784171CB4A6CA2087E143A252800/job/

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience in SRE roles in production environments at scale
 * Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Terraform
 * Strong hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (GCP or AWS required)
 * Experience building and configuring monitoring systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)
 * Familiarity with CI/CD and GitOps tools (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Flux)
 * Proficiency in Python for scripting and automation
 * Proven success in a fully remote or distributed team environment, demonstrating strong self-management and time organization.
 * Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with a passion for incident handling
 * Ability to work in fast-paced environments with high context switching
 * Highly responsive, proactive, and ownership-driven
 * Strong collaboration and communication skills
 * Curious mindset and eagerness to learn

## Description

Join a team of senior engineers operating in a large-scale, multi-cloud production environment supporting tens of thousands of enterprise customers worldwide. This is not a typical SRE role - you'll work at the core of a complex, high-impact system alongside experienced DevOps professionals in a fast-paced, cybersecurity-focused organization., * Own and operate large-scale, global production environments across multiple cloud providers (GCP, AWS, Azure)

 * Actively monitor, investigate, and resolve incidents triggered by automated alerting systems (PagerDuty / Incident Response)
 * Drive end-to-end troubleshooting across complex, distributed systems with high context switching
 * Design, deploy, and improve monitoring and observability systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) - not just react to alerts
 * Collaborate closely with internal teams (CX, CS, Engineering) to ensure system reliability and performance
 * Work hands-on with modern DevOps and infrastructure tools including Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and GitOps workflows
 * Develop and maintain automation and tooling (primarily in Python)
 * Gain deep understanding of system architecture and interconnected services
 * Contribute to a culture of operational excellence in a high-scale, high-availability environment
 * Champion asynchronous communication, documentation, and tooling standards to ensure seamless collaboration across time zones and fully distributed teams.
 * On call responsibilities:Daytime hours (12:00-20:00 CET/CEST, based on candidate location and team coverage needs)

Occasional weekends and holidays (rotation-based)


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