Company Overview
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.
The Role
As a Service Reliability Engineer at Proofpoint you will be responsible for provisioning, maintaining, and scaling our production services and server farms across multiple data centers. You will contribute to the architecture to improve scalability, service reliability, capacity, and performance. You will write automation code for provisioning and operating this infrastructure at massive scale. You will work with development and QA on building pipelines and automation for delivering and deploying production applications to this infrastructure.
We are looking for passion, curiosity, attention to details, taking pride in one's work, taking ownership, and having ideas/opinions. If you’re the enthusiastic team player who cares about the infrastructure, remains calm in crisis, collaborates cross functionally, and easily writes code for automation we want to talk to you.
Your day-to-day
- Install, configure, and upgrade nodes in high availability customer production clusters.
- Manage an international 24x7, multi-site production infrastructure powering the Proofpoint services, including deployment, maintenance, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and security.
- Ensure proper monitoring, alerting, capacity planning and reporting in the production environment.
- Contribute to the evolving design and architecture of reliable and scalable infrastructure.
- Collaborate with product engineering teams to ensure Operations standards are observed, determine resource impacts for upcoming product deployments, and ensure successful product rollouts.
- Develop processes, tools, and documentation in support of production operations.
- Evaluate new software, hardware and infrastructure solutions.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and be willing to jump on escalated issues as needed.
What you bring to the team
- Demonstrable substantial experience managing, troubleshooting, and tuning Linux systems.
- Highly Desirable Experience with public cloud providers such as Amazon EC2, and Microsoft Azure.
- Must have Experience using configuration management tool such as Puppet, Chef, and or Ansible.
- Must have Experience with virtualization - VMware vSphere, ESX, ESXi, and vCenter , Open Stack and KVM.
- Solid understanding of public cloud network fundamentals – Security groups, NACL’s, VPN’s, VPC peering.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience automating management of systems and applications using Perl, Python, or Ruby.
- Experience with industry-standard foundation technologies such as DNS, SMTP, NTP, LDAP, and NFS.
- Experience in management of a large distributed computing environment.
- Experience with monitoring and alerting systems i.e. Nagios.
- Experience with industry-standard operational practices such as change management, incident management.
- Experience with load-balancing technologies – F5, NetScaler or similar.
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 treating them well is key to our success! We are a multi-national company with locations in 10 countries, with each location contributing to Proofpoint’s amazing culture!
