Sr. DevOps Engineer

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Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

The Role

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join a new team based in Ireland. You will focus enabling the delivery of end-to-end applications and infrastructure solutions safely and at high velocity.

The successful candidate has technical depth and hands-on implementation experience of various practices and tools in the DevOps toolchain. The DevOps Engineer is comfortable rolling up their sleeves to design and code modules for infrastructure, application and processes.

Your Day to Day

• Design and maintain highly available and robust infrastructure services that increases productivity
• Maintain quality of code, up-to-date documentation, and a high degree of ownership
• Work in a dynamic environment and respond to interrupts in a timely manner
• Provide escalation support for infrastructure platforms running in production
• Provide mentoring to others with the team and the larger Operations organization
• Must be able to participate in 24x7 weekly rotation alert schedule

What You Bring to the Team

• Preferably you’ll have DevOps experience working in a SaaS environment
• Cloud environment experience preferably working with AWS
• Experience working with a configuration management and automation system (Ansible Preferred)
• Experience in Linux systems administration and/or engineering
• Knowledge of version control source code repositories (Git, SVN, Mercurial, Perforce)
• Understanding of information security concepts and technologies such as IDS, VPN, Splunk, and Firewalls
• Prior experience with application containerization and container ecosystems
• Strong hands-on experience with mainline programming and scripting languages such as Bash, Shell, Python, Ruby, Perl, Java, .Net, or C++.
• Hands-on experience with building and managing release systems, code merging and promotion, and CI/CD workflows and tools.
• Experience working with and delivering in an Agile environment
• Understanding of information security concepts and technologies such as IDS, VPN, Splunk, and Firewalls
• Understanding of microservices and distributed application architecture
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate core DevOps concepts (CI/CD, Agile & Automation)

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success.  We’re a customer-focused and driven-to-win organisation with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply. 

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!