Principal DevOps Engineer (GCP)

TL;DR

Principal DevOps Engineer (GCP): Architecting and scaling a massive-scale, multi-region GCP environment for the Cortex SecOps platform with an accent on infrastructure-as-code, system resilience, and cloud economics. Focus on driving engineering standards, optimizing CI/CD workflows, and solving complex systemic reliability challenges at scale.

Location: Must be based in or able to work from the Santa Clara, CA office (Hybrid)

Salary: $147,000 - $237,500/yr

Company

A global leader in cybersecurity dedicated to protecting the digital way of life through innovation and AI-driven solutions.

What you will do

• Design and govern global, multi-region cloud infrastructure strategy using Terraform.
• Architect secure, self-healing continuous delivery workflows in partnership with engineering teams.
• Drive long-term GCP cost-efficiency and FinOps models for the global platform footprint.
• Influence core application architecture to ensure native containerization and horizontal scalability.
• Lead post-mortems and design architectural mitigations for complex, systemic outages.
• Mentor senior engineers and define the technical roadmap for the DevOps organization.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Architecture.
• Deep expertise in GCP or AWS, including complex networking and IAM governance.
• Expert-level mastery of Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystems.
• High proficiency in Python or Go and advanced Linux internals.
• Expert-level experience designing scalable Terraform modules.
• Must be authorized to work in the US; no visa sponsorship available.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, in-person work environment focused on real-time problem solving.
• Opportunity to work on industry-leading SecOps platforms like XDR and XSIAM.
• Comprehensive employee benefits package including health and wellness support.
• Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and professional growth.
• Focus on innovation and solving real-world cybersecurity challenges.