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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

We are looking for an outstanding IT Manager with extensive experience in infrastructure operations, service reliability engineering and systems administration.  The ideal candidate will be a proven leader who empowers and organizes the team with authenticity and partnership.   They will also be obsessive about effectively collaborating with their peers and applying their technical expertise when needed.

Your Day to Day

• Provide leadership for the day to day operations of our global corporate infrastructure
• Define technical needs, benefits, and strategies; perform technical analysis, design, and architecture.
• Configure, test, and roll out infrastructure solutions for various company locations and departments.
• Implement, configure, coordinate, control, maintain, troubleshoot, and secure our internal platforms and systems
• Provide leadership for the day to day operations of our global corporate and engineering platforms: Microsoft, Atlassian, AI tools, Automation platforms, etc.
• Work with leadership and stakeholder teams on strategy and architecture for infrastructure, platforms, identity and security.

What you bring to the team

• Superior leadership skills with a passion for hands-on work and mentorship
• Significant technical experience in service/systems reliability engineering, systems administration and infrastructure operations
• Experience building, leading and scaling global teams focused on exceptional customer experience and business enablement
• Strong track record of developing technical solutions to business problems with an emphasis on continuous process improvement, automation, stakeholder partnership and user experience.
• Proven ability to develop and grow team members in a direction that benefits them and the company
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills and executive presence
• Ability to proactively identify and resolve technical, process, organizational, and resourcing challenges

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.

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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: 157,650.00 - 231,220.00 USD

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

Base Pay Range: 129,000.00 - 189,200.00 USD

All other cities and states excluding those listed above:

Base Pay Range: 117,600.00 - 172,480.00 USD