We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to collaboratively design, maintain, and expand cloud infrastructure with an automation-first mindset. As an active participant throughout the software development lifecycle, an individual in this role considers security, efficiency, and sustainability with every decision, and is ready to respond to a dynamic technological and business landscape.
It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! They are 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.
The company is singularly devoted to helping its customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why they’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.
Your day-to-day
- Manage production cloud infrastructure including Linux servers, RDBMS and NoSQL databases, Docker containers, and more
- Write scripts that use the AWS API to get results faster than using the web console
- Manage the telemetry to alerting pipeline and respond to alerts
- Use metrics to make informed decisions about scale and cost
- Do more than just perform operational tasks – design how they are done
What you bring to the team
- Experience with AWS - especially EC2, RDS, IAM, S3, and the API
- Experience with automation software such as Ansible and Terraform, and familiarity with the principles of IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
- Familiarity with Git and Python, including the ability to independently learn your way out of any challenges
- Fluency with common networking and Linux concepts and troubleshooting techniques such as DNS, TLS, bash, cron, environment variables, etc.
- An understanding of fundamental DevOps challenges such as scaling capacity without waste and alerting without fatigue
- An instinct for learning why things work the way they do using experimentation and deductive reasoning
- A passion for finding elegant solutions that anticipate future needs while avoiding bottlenecks and manual interventions
- Willingness to work closely with the team to eliminate silos and work towards a unified automation approach
Beneficial Experience
While not required, experience with Kubernetes, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Spark, and/or the Serverless framework would be a great help
Why Proofpoint
Protecting people is at the heart of Proofpoint's award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to its success. It’s a customer-focused and driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. It is an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly, 'culture-add', and they strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.
The company believes in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate its culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint
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