Senior DevOps Engineer

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!

We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

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.  Proofpoint.
 

We’re excited to announce that our team is expanding! We are on the lookout for a talented DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic engineering team. In this role, you will play a crucial part in building and optimizing our AWS-based infrastructure to ensure seamless scaling and deployment of our innovative SaaS solution. Additionally, we are embarking on an ambitious journey to provide a multi-cloud solution, enhancing our flexibility and resilience. Our engineers are at the forefront of steering and influencing the future success and growth of our company. We pride ourselves on being nimble, dynamic, and fast-moving. We seek team players who take a creative and analytical approach to solving complex technical challenges. If you are passionate about cutting-edge technology and thrive in a collaborative environment, we would love to hear from you!

Role Overview

• Build, implement and improve architecture and performance of large-scale distributed systems.

• Write tools and scripts to automate maintenance and monitoring tasks and implement efficient, and robust features to build scalable infrastructure.

• Design/build backend services/systems to ensure stability and high-performance and build CI/CD pipelines.

• Work hand in hand with engineers to develop tools to automate tasks, resolve bottlenecks, and improve scalability/reliability to keep up with our growth.

Qualifications:

• A strong foundation in computer science, software engineering, etc. with an ability to pick up new programming languages quickly.

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps.

• Experience building and scaling large distributed systems and cloud computing with AWS & Azure

• Extensive experience developing infrastructure as code automation using Terraform.

• Deep understanding of Containers, Docker, IAM, ALB, Autoscaling Groups, EKS, Kubernetes

• Experience building CI with Jenkins/Cloudbees

• Familiarity with Harness.

• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and Splunk

• In-depth knowledge of cloud infrastructure solutions (security, storage, networking, databases).

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or similar

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-AN1

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