Sr. DevOps Engineer

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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.

Job Description

We’re growing! We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team to help build our AWS-based infrastructure in order to scale and deploy our new SaaS solution. Our engineers steer and influence the future success and growth of our company. We are nimble, dynamic, and move fast. We look for team-players that take a creative, analytical approach and to solving complex technical challenges. If this sounds like you, keep reading!

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.

- Extensive experience developing infrastructure as code Automation using tools such as Terraform.

- 3+ years of experience building a microservice infrastructure using at least one (or more) of the following: NodeJS, Python, Go, Perl.

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

- Experience building and scaling large distributed systems and cloud computing with one (or more) of the following: AWS(preferred), Azure, GCP.

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

Why Proofpoint
Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success.  We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization 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!