Senior Cloud Data Platform Engineer (AWS, CI/CD, DataOps)

Epam Systems Inc; Buenos Aires; Hybrid; ARS 1,800,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Proofpoint is seeking a Senior DevOps and Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team. This is a hybrid role that sits at the intersection of platform engineering and data infrastructure—you will own the reliability, automation, and delivery of the systems that power Proofpoint's data pipelines and analytics capabilities.

You will build and maintain the cloud infrastructure (AWS-first), CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps tooling that enable data engineering teams to ship high-quality data products

Qualifications

• 5+ years as DevOps, platform/SRE with 2+ years data engineering
• Deep AWS core services knowledge (S3, IAM, VPC, Glue, Athena)
• Terraform and/or AWS CDK for IaC
• Proficient in CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, ECS/EKS, Kubernetes)
• Observability design for data and platform services

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for data infra.
• Build and manage AWS-based cloud infrastructure with IaC.
• Own observability stack: metrics, logs, alerts for data pipelines.
• Develop the DataOps platform and reusable templates for quick production pipelines.
• Manage containerized ingestion microservices and orchestration workers.
• Operate workflow environments (MWAA/Airflow; Step Functions) with reliability hardening.
• Build and maintain AWS Glue ETL jobs for large-scale data ingestion.
• Enforce security best practices across the data platform.
• Collaborate with data engineers/scientists to translate requirements into scalable infra.
• Lead incident response and post-mortem improvements.
• Mentor junior engineers in DevOps and data engineering practices.

Skills

Strong communication

Team collaboration

Tools

AWS

Terraform

AWS CDK

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

CloudWatch

Job description

Proofpoint is seeking a Senior DevOps and Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team. This is a hybrid role that sits at the intersection of platform engineering and data infrastructure—you will own the reliability, automation, and delivery of the systems that power Proofpoint's data pipelines and analytics capabilities.

You will build and maintain the cloud infrastructure (AWS-first), CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps tooling that enable data engineering teams to ship high-quality data products