Senior AWS DevOps & Data Platform Engineer (Hybrid, Flexible)

Bluelight Consulting; Buenos Aires; Hybrid; ARS 123,632,000 - 185,448,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Global collaboration

Job summary

Proofpoint seeks a Senior DevOps and Data Engineer to own and evolve the data platform. You’ll design CI/CD pipelines for AWS Glue ETL jobs, build AWS infrastructure with IaC, and drive observability across data pipelines.

The role blends platform engineering with data engineering, and requires strong automation and security discipline. You will collaborate with data teams to deliver reliable data products, mentor junior staff, and participate in incident response.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for AWS Glue ETL jobs and related data infrastructure.
• Build and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS using IaC (Terraform / CDK) including security controls.
• Own the observability stack for data pipelines with metrics, logs, and alerting.
• Develop DataOps self-service tooling and templates for production-grade pipelines.
• Lead incident response for data platform outages and perform post-mortems.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to architecture decisions.

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

Observability

Security

Communication

Distributed Systems

Data Engineering

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Proofpoint seeks a Senior DevOps and Data Engineer to own and evolve the data platform. You’ll design CI/CD pipelines for AWS Glue ETL jobs, build AWS infrastructure with IaC, and drive observability across data pipelines.

The role blends platform engineering with data engineering, and requires strong automation and security discipline. You will collaborate with data teams to deliver reliable data products, mentor junior staff, and participate in incident response.