Sr. DevOps Engineer

Posted:
10/31/2024, 2:01:55 AM

Location(s):
Northern Ireland, United Kingdom ⋅ Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
DevOps & Infrastructure

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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.

The Role

Are you curious, analytical and motivated by new challenges and willing to prove it?  Do you want to deliver enterprise wide solutions that promote flexibility, scalability and high performance that deliver to millions of users?  Do you want to learn and apply new skills on an ongoing basis?  If so, we would like to hear from you!
 

We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic about existing and new technologies, someone who is a great communicator and is excited about working in a professional, friendly, energetic, results-oriented engineering team, making a highly visible contribution to the delivery of a multi-million dollar product offering.  You will work closely with local engineers in our Belfast office and our global product management team, as part of an agile team driving rapid growth through high-quality, on-time feature releases that meet and exceed the expectations of our customers.
 

Your day-to-day

  • Act as key member of a team working on the leading Email Security product suite on the market

  • Help shape the future of CI/CD within the team and the wider organisation

  • Respond effectively and accurately to the needs of stakeholders, including product management, support, operations and QA

  • Play a vital role in the delivery of ambitious new features and products from engineering through production

  • Contribute to, and promote, the delivery of reliable, automated deployments across a range of environments

  • Provide mentoring and thought leadership to other team members

  • Play well with others!  Be a great teammate and help us maintain our positive culture

  • Share knowledge across team both formally and informally

  • Be ready to adapt and contribute across the wider org as needed


What you bring to the team:

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

    • AWS, Terraform, Linux, Puppet, Hiera, Jenkins, VMWare, Rundeck
       

  • A keen interest in automation and repeatability

  • Familiarity with agile development

  • Strong communications skills – ability to document and verbally communicate ideas

  • Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills

  • Strong focus on delivery and collaboration

  • Problem solving mentality


Desirable

  • Knowledge of email technology, MTAs (e.g. Postfix), and server architecture

  • Exposure to SaaS-based product delivery

Why Proofpoint

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



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

Proofpoint

Website: https://www.proofpoint.com/

Headquarter Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States

Employee Count: 1001-5000

Year Founded: 2002

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt

Industries: Email ⋅ Enterprise Software ⋅ Information Technology ⋅ Network Security ⋅ SaaS