Listing Description
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
The primary role of the Senior Tools and Automation Engineer is to develop tools and automation to package, build, configure, test and deploy web service code into multiple types of environments.
Your day-to-day
As a Senior Tools and Automation Engineer, you will work within a high functioning team to make the team even better. You will be working with developers to transform raw code and 3rd party tools into packages that can be installed into various environments and managed with tools like Puppet , Hiera, and Rundeck.
You’ll be part of daily team meetings to ensure that the work the developers produce moves as programmatically as possible from prototype through QA to production.
You’ll also be part of project teams that work to systematically update and audit our systems to ensure that they’’re running the operating systems, tools, services and configurations that are needed to support our products.
What you bring to the team
Solid user-level Linux skills (bash or other shell scripting, filesystem navigation, troubleshooting using top/lsof/ etc.)
Ability to script in Python, Perl, Ruby and/or other dynamic languages
Ability to create and maintain software packaging.
Experience with git/github, Jenkins/Hudson and/or other build and continuous integration systems.
Familiarity with SSH and centralized authentication/authorization.
Previous experience in automating build, test, and/or deployment processes
Highly desired:
previous infrastructure management experience with Puppet or Chef
previous experience creating tools / utilities with simple GUIs
familiarity with AWS and private cloud infrastructure
familiarity with Hadoop, Spark, ElasticSearch, Cassandra and/or other “big data” technologies
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!What you bring to the team
Solid user-level Linux skills (bash or other shell scripting, filesystem navigation, troubleshooting using top/lsof/ etc.)
Ability to script in Python, Perl, Ruby and/or other dynamic languages
Ability to create and maintain software packaging.
Experience with git/github, Jenkins/Hudson and/or other build and continuous integration systems.
Familiarity with SSH and centralized authentication/authorization.
Previous experience in automating build, test, and/or deployment processes
Highly desired:
previous infrastructure management experience with Puppet or Chef
previous experience creating tools / utilities with simple GUIs
familiarity with AWS and private cloud infrastructure
familiarity with Hadoop, Spark, ElasticSearch, Cassandra and/or other “big data” technologies
Listing Details
- Citizenship: No Requirements
- Incentives: Both
- Education: Bachelors Degree
- Travel: No Travel
- Telework: Optional Telecommute