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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
We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join a new team based in Ireland. You will focus enabling the delivery of end-to-end applications and infrastructure solutions safely and at high velocity.
The 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 with the team and the larger Operations organization
Must be able to participate in 24x7 weekly rotation alert schedule
What You Bring to the Team
Preferably you’ll have DevOps experience working in a SaaS environment
Cloud environment experience working with AWS
Experience working with a configuration management and automation system (Ansible Preferred)
Experience in Linux systems administration and/or engineering
Databases technologies experience (RDS, MySQL/MariaDB, MongoDB)
Prior experience with application containerization and container ecosystems using Docker and Kubernetes
Hands-on experience with mainline programming and scripting languages such as Bash, Shell, Python, Perl
Knowledge of version control source code repositories (Git)
Hands-on experience with building and managing release systems, code merging and promotion, and CI/CD workflows and tools (Jenkins/Ansible)
Understanding of microservices and distributed application architecture
Experience working with and delivering in an Agile environment
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate core DevOps concepts (CI/CD, Agile & Automation)
Beneficial Experience
Understanding of information security concepts and technologies such as IDS, VPN, Splunk, and Firewalls
Experience with GCP
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 was honored with 9 Best Places to Work Awards in 2023 by workplace culture leader, Comparably. To view additional awards, 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.