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.

DevOps Engineer

The Role

At Proofpoint, you will find an environment where innovation comes from creative collaboration and where everyone is empowered to go fast and have fun. If you find joy in making the impossible possible you will feel right at home with our team If you are excited about delivering high performance scalable solutions that protect more than 50% of Fortune 1000 companies and stops the bad guys, this is the place for you.

As a DevOps Engineer on the core detection team, you will be focused on the back-end systems that power our industry leading products focused on email Security. These highly sophisticated systems are responsible for protecting the corporate email platform of some of the largest brands in the world. We are looking for someone who is an outstanding team player with a positive attitude, and high energy, to help us deliver state-of-the-art products.

Your day-to-day

• Lead efforts to design, implement software and support systems using industry best-practices

• Collaborate with engineers and business stakeholders to identify and implement software solutions to business problems

• Build automation tooling to help monitor production systems

• Address customer reported bugs, and provide production support

• Drive usage of best application patterns, technologies, and practices

• Design highly scalable and resilient applications

What you bring to the team

When it comes to hiring, we value attitude and aptitude over number of years of experience with any specific tool or technology. We assume you know how to code; we’re much more interested in how you design, collaborate, and deliver. Having said that, we are generally looking for the following skills and experience.

• Proven hands-on expertise in developing software in an Agile manner.

• Exposure to modern DevOps methodologies with continuous integration and deployment pipelines.

• Experience using DevOps tooling to build infrastructure as a code.

• Experience in either AWS or GCP running production workloads.

• Experience building reusable infrastructure as a code such as Terraform Modules.

• Experience building reusable K8S Helm Charts.

• Experience with scalability/high availability and distributed data services.

• Experience building, deploying and monitoring large scale cloud services. AWS or GCP preferred.

• Experience in authentication mechanisms for authentication and authorization.

• Experience leveraging observability frameworks.

• Understanding and hands-on experience with REST/Web services using JSON.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Ownership of high value product features and technical initiatives.

• Share knowledge with the team both formally and informally.

• Ready to adapt and contribute across the wider team as needed.

• Expertise in, or a strong desire to learn, a wide range of technologies, including;

• REST/JSON APIs, Linux, AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, CloudBees, Git, Python, Go, MySQL, Graphana, Prometheus, Behave, Terraform.

• 3+ years of strong devops experience.

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

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

Proofpoint has been honored with six Best Places to Work Awards in 2024 by workplace culture leader Comparably, including Best Company Career Growth, Best Company Outlook, Best Global Culture, Best Engineering Teams, Best Sales Teams, and Best HR Teams.

To view additional awards, please visit www.proofpoint.com/us/news#awards

Proofpoint thrives on the invaluable contributions of our diverse workforce, which encompasses a kaleidoscope of lived experiences, thoughts, perspectives, and professional expertise. We attribute much of our success to our people, who are at the core of our organization and embody our people-centric ethos.

We hire the most innovative minds globally to safeguard our customers’ sensitive data and intellectual property. Our talented workforce develops and leverages our advanced technology, combining their expertise to provide comprehensive protection against threat actors and mitigate the risks posed by both malicious and negligent employees.

Cyberattacks have the potential to disrupt access to vital resources such as energy, water, transportation, healthcare, and financial services. At Proofpoint, our dedicated team works tirelessly to ensure world-class cyber resilience, protecting approximately 8,000 enterprise customers worldwide.

We are committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. We work every day to ensure that our employees feel that they are in a community that celebrates their unique identity, cultivates their sense of belonging, and invests in their professional growth. We have 9 employee-led employee inclusion groups which help support both employees and our organization by providing opportunities to network, discuss career and cultural development and uplift the corporate culture to create a more inclusive workplace.

At Proofpoint, we have a passion for protecting people, data, and brands from today’s advanced threats and compliance risks. We hire the best people in the business to:

• Build and enhance our proven security platform

• Blend innovation and speed in a constantly evolving cloud architecture

• Analyze new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven intel

• Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security challenges

   

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect what matters most. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity—and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner.

Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.

Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.