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. Protection Starts with People.

The Identity Defense product group protects against domain-name based identity deception and brand abuse.  We use our knowledge of email and threat traffic to deliver actionable information to protect a business’ brand, employees, partners, and customers.  This ecosystem-wide approach is the most successful solution on the market today.

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to build, maintain and secure infrastructure in the cloud.  This role is integrated into a development team.  Typical projects include large data pipelines, complex middleware, big data systems and a full stack modern web application environment.  Special considerations will be given to candidates with a strong security background.

Your day-to-day

• Develop scalable and secure production backend systems

• Build repeatable processes using modern automation and orchestration tools

• Use metrics to make informed decisions about scale and cost

• Participate in the product development process by working closely with other engineering and product teams to ensure the best solution is brought to market

• Work in a collaborative team-first environment

What you bring to the team

• Experience implementing Security Best Practices for Cloud Computing environments

• Experience with Terraform or similar automation tools

• Experience with Docker and containers

• Experience with Kubernetes or similar container orchestration environments

• Experience with deploying infrastructure in an AWS cloud environment

• Experience with CI and Source control systems such as Jenkins and Git

• Experience coding in Python or similar languages

• This is a US based remote opportunity

Why Proofpoint

As a customer focused and driven-to-win organization with leading edge products, there are many exciting reasons to join the Proofpoint team. We believe in hiring the best the brightest and cultivating a culture of collaboration and appreciation. As we continue to grow and expand globally, we understand that hiring the right people and developing great teams is key to our success! We are a multi-national company with locations in many countries, with each location contributing to Proofpoint’s amazing culture!  #LI-CR1

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

Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable pay and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes flexible time off, a robust well-being program that provides for 4 global wellbeing days per year, and a 3-week work from anywhere option.

Base Pay Ranges:

SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area:

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska:

All other cities and states excluding those listed above: