Cloud Infrastructure Engineering Manager

2 days ago


Santa Clara, California, United States ZipRecruiter Full time

Company Overview

Palo Alto Networks is a leading cybersecurity company that protects the digital way of life. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, and we're committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity.

Salary

The estimated annual salary for this position is $217,750, based on industry standards and location. The compensation package includes a base salary and restricted stock units.

Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity to lead and manage a team responsible for designing, building, and maintaining cloud-based infrastructure platforms. As a Manager of Infrastructure Platform Engineering, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the platform supports the organization's growth, scalability, and reliability needs.

Key Responsibilities

  • Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of platform engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
  • Platform Development: Drive the design, implementation, and maintenance of cloud-based infrastructure platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and on-prem solutions to support company applications and services.
  • Automation & Scalability: Advocate for and implement automation practices, including Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using tools like Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar. Ensure platforms are highly available, scalable, and cost-efficient.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with SRE and product teams to align infrastructure strategy with business goals, ensuring that infrastructure needs are met while balancing performance, cost, and security requirements.
  • Monitoring & Performance: Establish and maintain effective monitoring, alerting, and performance metrics for infrastructure health, system availability, and resource utilization. Proactively address performance bottlenecks and reliability issues.
  • Security & Compliance: Work with the security team to integrate security best practices into the infrastructure platform, ensuring that systems are compliant with regulatory requirements and secure by design.
  • Budget & Cost Management: Collaborate with senior leadership to manage the infrastructure budget, ensuring that resources are allocated efficiently and cost-optimization opportunities are identified and acted upon.

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, you will need:

  • 7+ years of experience in Infrastructure software development, site reliability engineering, DevOps, preferably with 3+ years in a leadership role.
  • Experience managing large-scale, cloud-based infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and on-premise datacenters.
  • Deep knowledge of distributed systems, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), microservices architectures, and cloud technologies.
  • Extensive experience with monitoring, alerting, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic).
  • Strong knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools and frameworks (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
  • Expertise in automation frameworks and scripting (e.g., Python, Bash, Go).
  • Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and post-mortem culture.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
  • Exceptional leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills.
  • Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field or equivalent military experience.
  • Experience in multi-cloud environments and hybrid cloud architectures.
  • Familiarity with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio) and cloud security practices.
  • Experience with cost management and optimization in cloud environments.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:

  • Competitive salary and bonus structure.
  • Restricted stock units and equity participation.
  • Comprehensive health insurance, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Flexible paid time off and holidays.
  • Professional development opportunities and education assistance.
  • Recognition and reward programs for outstanding performance.

Other Opportunities

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We celebrate diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, family or medical care leave, or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, disability, physical or mental condition, political affiliation, protected veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.



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