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. Proofpoint.

The Role

The DevOps Engineer has the understanding and experiences of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools to help Proofpoint deliver end-to-end applications and infrastructure solutions safely and at high velocity. The DevOps Engineer will assist on larger projects or run smaller projects by themselves. A successful candidate has technical depth and hands-on implementation experience of various practices and tools in the DevOps toolchain. The DevOps Engineer is comfortable rolling up their sleeves to design and code modules for infrastructure, application and processes.
Your Day to Day

• Design and maintain highly available and robust infrastructure services that increases productivity

• Maintain quality of code, up-to-date documentation, and a high degree of ownership

• Work in a dynamic environment and respond to interrupts in a timely manner

• Provide escalation support for infrastructure platforms running in production

• Provide mentoring to others within the team and the larger Operations organization

What You Bring to the Team

• 3+ years of related experience preferably in a SaaS environment

• 3+ years of cloud environment experience preferably working with AWS

• 3+ years of experience working with Configuration-as-Code (CaC) (Ansible Preferred)

• 3+ years of experience working with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) (Terraform Preferred)

• 3+ years of experience in Linux systems administration and/or engineering

• Strong hands-on experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Python, Ruby, or Groovy.

• Experience with Version Control Systems (VCS) like Git or SVN

• Experience with provisioning and securing databases like mysql, postgres, mongoDB in a cloud environment

• Experience with application containerization and container ecosystems (Docker and Kubernetes Preferred)

• Prior experience with Observability tools like SignalFX, Datadog, or Prometheus

• Hands-on experience with building and managing release systems, code merging and promotion, and CI/CD workflows and tools.

• Solid understanding of networking concepts and protocols, security best practices, and system administration.

• Strong understanding of cloud security principles and best practices.

• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to communicate core DevOps concepts (CI/CD, Agile & Automation)

• US citizenship required

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!

Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable pay and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes flexible time off, a robust well-being program that provides for 4 global wellbeing days per year, and a 3-week work from anywhere option.

Base Pay Ranges:

SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area:

Base Pay Range: 128,940.00 - 202,620.00 USD

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska:

Base Pay Range: 106,750.00 - 167,750.00 USD

All other cities and states excluding those listed above:

Base Pay Range: 96,320.00 - 151,360.00 USD