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# Senior Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Palo Alto Networks
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $132,600.0 - $214,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, ARM Architecture, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Computer Programming, DevOps, Monitoring of Systems, Internet Security, Unix Shell, Reliability Engineering, Cloud Services, Ansible, Prometheus, Google Cloud, Grafana, Containerization, Kubernetes, Cortex XSOAR Platform, Terraform, Docker, Pagerduty
- **Published:** November 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-site-reliability-engineer-palo-alto-ca--e336f050-09e6-486c-8456-936de3e83410

## About the Role

Reliability Engineering, Leading Edge Technology, Internet Security, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Problem Solving Skills, Metrics, DevOps, GCP (Good Clinical Practices), Team Player, Process Improvement, * DevOps/SRE Expertise: 5+ years of experience as a DevOps/SRE engineer with a passion for technology and a strong motivation for high reliability at the service level.

 * Observability Tools: High proficiency with Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry and other monitoring tools.
 * Incident and Alerts Management: Clear understanding of incident and alerts management using tools like Pagerduty and Prometheus Alert Manager..
 * Cloud Proficiency: High proficiency in either Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services.
 * Kubernetes and Docker: High proficiency with Kubernetes and Docker for container orchestration.
 * Scripting and Automation: High proficiency in Python programming and Linux Shell commands. Experience with Ansible and Terraform for infrastructure as code.
 * Communication Skills: Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work and coordinate between multiple teams in different timezones..
 * Troubleshooting: Ability to effectively troubleshoot and address emerging and complex problems.
 * Independence: Ability to operate independently, make decisions, take action, and take responsibility.

## Description

The Cortex team builds and delivers the industry's most advanced SecOps platform, consisting of XDR, XSIAM, XSOAR, and XPANSE. As a member of the Cortex DevOps team, your role involves operating and maintaining a large-scale GCP environment, including the design, implementation, and continuous enhancement of our comprehensive observability systems. To meet the opportunities that such a role provides, you will have a deep knowledge of modern observability and monitoring tools and practices, having managed high cardinality metrics, implemented tracing, and operationalized large scale logging solutions. As part of this role, you will collaborate closely with our engineering teams to develop innovative solutions that provide clear and actionable insights into our systems' performance and health., * Cloud Expertise: Utilize your expertise in monitoring cloud platforms, particularly GCP, to optimize our infrastructure, leveraging cloud-native technologies.

 * Monitoring Expertise: Improve monitoring processes, alerts, and metrics. Work with development teams to ensure that all of our services have the right monitoring and metrics in place so that we detect problems before our customers do.
 * Incident Management: Leverage incident management processes to ensure efficient resolution of system issues and minimal impact on services.
 * Automation: Automate complex monitoring and alerting tasks by building tools for cloud operations, such as automated remediation of known issues and auto-scaling.
 * Continuously Improve: Stay up-to-date with cutting-edge technologies, evaluate their potential impact on our operations, and implement them when appropriate.
 * On-Call: Provide follow-the-sun operational coverage in the production of our Observability infrastructure..
 * Collaborate: Work with our Engineering team to influence the operability of the product and ensure the reliability and availability of our services.