Senior Cloud Data Platform Engineer

Maxit Consulting - Max Corporate Group; Buenos Aires; Hybrid; ARS 1,800,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Flexible work environment

Annual wellness days

Global collaboration

Job summary

Proofpoint is seeking a Senior DevOps and Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team. This hybrid role sits at the intersection of platform engineering and data infrastructure, owning the reliability and delivery of data Pipelines and analytics.

You will build and maintain AWS-first cloud infra, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps tooling to accelerate data engineering while ensuring security and governance. Collaboration with data scientists and security teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering, with hands-on data engineering work.
• Deep expertise with AWS core services: S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Secrets Manager, and CloudFormation/CDK.
• Hands-on experience with AWS data services: Glue, Athena, and S3 lifecycle/encryption.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools Terraform and/or AWS CDK.
• Strong CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent.
• Experience with container technologies (Docker) and orchestration (ECS, EKS, Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and promotion of AWS Glue ETL jobs and Athena views.
• Build and manage AWS-based infrastructure using IaC (Terraform/CDK).
• Own observability for data pipelines: metrics, logging, alerting and incident response.
• Develop self-service tooling and reusable templates for data engineers.
• Lead incident response for data platform outages and conduct post-mortems.
• Mentor junior engineers on DevOps and data engineering practices.

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

Data engineering

Python

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Apache Airflow

Job description

Proofpoint is seeking a Senior DevOps and Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team. This hybrid role sits at the intersection of platform engineering and data infrastructure, owning the reliability and delivery of data Pipelines and analytics.

You will build and maintain AWS-first cloud infra, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps tooling to accelerate data engineering while ensuring security and governance. Collaboration with data scientists and security teams is essential.