Senior AI Growth & Data Platform Lead

Remote Jobs; Buenos Aires; Hybrid; ARS 2,000,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Proofpoint seeks a Senior DevOps and Data Engineer to join the Data Platform team. You will own reliability, automation, and delivery of data pipelines and analytics capabilities. Build and maintain cloud infra (AWS-first), CI/CD tooling, and DataOps tooling to accelerate data product delivery.

You will work across Glue, Athena, S3, and MWAA, driving security, scalability, and developer experience. Hybrid role with collaboration across engineering and security teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or site reliability, with at least 2 years in data engineering.
• Deep expertise with AWS core services (S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch).
• Hands-on AWS data services experience: Glue, Athena, S3 lifecycle and encryption.
• Proficiency with IaC tools (Terraform and/or CDK) for production clouds.
• Strong CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent.
• Experience with containers (Docker) and orchestration (ECS/EKS/Kubernetes).
• Ability to design observability systems (metrics, logs, tracing, alerts) for data/platform services.
• Excellent communication to translate ops concerns into clear trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for AWS Glue and related data infra.
• Build and manage AWS cloud infrastructure using IaC (Terraform/CDK).
• Own the observability stack with metrics, logs, and alerts across data pipelines.
• Develop DataOps self-service tooling and reusable pipeline templates.
• Manage container and compute infra (Docker, ECS/EKS, or Lambda).
• Operate workflow environments (MWAA/Airflow, Step Functions).
• Develop AWS Glue ETL jobs (PySpark) for large-scale data ingestion/transformation.
• Enforce security best practices: Secrets Manager, least privilege IAM, network controls.

Skills

DevOps

AWS

CI/CD

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Airflow

Observability

Security

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Terraform

AWS CDK

ECS/EKS

MWAA

Glue

Athena

S3

Job description

Proofpoint seeks a Senior DevOps and Data Engineer to join the Data Platform team. You will own reliability, automation, and delivery of data pipelines and analytics capabilities. Build and maintain cloud infra (AWS-first), CI/CD tooling, and DataOps tooling to accelerate data product delivery.

You will work across Glue, Athena, S3, and MWAA, driving security, scalability, and developer experience. Hybrid role with collaboration across engineering and security teams.