Software Engineer (Platform/Infrastructure)

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Company Overview
 

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organisations’ 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 organisations 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.

Your day-to-day

As a Software Engineer on our Platform/Infrastructure team you will be contributing to the development of cloud infrastructure tooling. You will be working with our engineering teams to help them adopt these tools. You will be contributing to executing our goal of “everything as code” and GitOps.   
  

What you bring to the team
 

You have the proven technical background and enjoy working with high performance teams. You have an eagerness to learn and pick new technologies as required. You understand the benefits that CI/CD brings to modern architecture and can empathize with the challenges of engineers not having one. You believe in the model of self-service and automation. You thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment and are comfortable with changes in direction. 

Experience

• Demonstrated experience in facilitating the adoption of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices within software development life cycles (SDLC), aiding developers in implementing efficient CI/CD pipelines.

• Proven understanding of the significance of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and active involvement in contributing to IaC initiatives, ensuring infrastructure provisioning and management is automated and version-controlled.

• Hands-on experience with containerization technologies such as Docker, alongside proficiency in orchestration tools like Kubernetes, enabling the deployment and management of containerized applications at scale.

• Knowledgeable in developing and utilizing observability systems for comprehensive telemetry, tracing, and anomaly detection, ensuring robust monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities across distributed systems.

• Proficiency in at least one programming language and a keen willingness to engage with and work in diverse programming languages, showcasing adaptability and a commitment to continuous learning.

• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, enable effective collaboration with cross-functional teams, articulate technical concepts clearly, and facilitate productive discussions and knowledge sharing within the organization.

Desirable

• Experience with some of the following technologies would be beneficial for this role;

  • GoLang, Kubernetes, Harness, Terraform, Cloudbees

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

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