Senior AWS DevOps & Data Platform Engineer

Zeo Consulting; Buenos Aires; Hybrid; ARS 3,000,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Comprehensive benefits

Flexible work environment

Wellness days and community outreach

Job summary

Proofpoint is seeking a Senior DevOps and Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team in a hybrid role focused on reliability, automation, and data infrastructure. You will own cloud infrastructure (AWS-first), CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps tooling enabling data engineering teams to ship high-quality data products safely.

You will design and operate data pipelines with Glue, Athena, and S3, build observability, and contribute to scalable, secure platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps/platform engineering with at least 2 years in data engineering.
• Deep expertise with AWS core services (S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Lambda, ECS/EKS).
• Hands-on experience with AWS data services: Glue, Athena, and S3.
• Proficiency with IaC: Terraform and/or AWS CDK.
• Strong CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration (ECS/EKS/Kubernetes).
• Proven ability to design observability systems (metrics, logs, tracing).
• Excellent communication; able to translate needs into clear trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for AWS Glue ETL jobs and data infra.
• Build and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS using IaC (Terraform / CDK).
• Own the observability stack for data pipelines with metrics, logs, and alerts.
• Develop DataOps tooling and templates for production-grade pipelines.
• Manage container and compute infra (Docker, ECS/EKS, Lambda).
• Operate workflow orchestration (MWAA/Apache Airflow) including scaling.
• Develop and maintain AWS Glue ETL jobs (PySpark) across the data lake.
• Enforce security best practices: Secrets Manager, IAM least privilege, network segmentation.
• Collaborate with data engineers/scientists/security to deliver scalable infra solutions.
• Lead on-call incidents, root-cause analysis and post-mortem improvements.
• Mentor junior engineers; conduct reviews and contribute to architecture decisions.

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Terraform

AWS CDK

Docker

Kubernetes

Observability

Job description

Proofpoint is seeking a Senior DevOps and Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team in a hybrid role focused on reliability, automation, and data infrastructure. You will own cloud infrastructure (AWS-first), CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps tooling enabling data engineering teams to ship high-quality data products safely.

You will design and operate data pipelines with Glue, Athena, and S3, build observability, and contribute to scalable, secure platforms.