Senior Cloud DevOps Lead — AWS & Kubernetes

Werben HR LLC; Buenos Aires; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 200,903,000; Full time

Job summary

Proofpoint in Argentina is seeking a Senior DevOps and Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team. This remote role sits at the intersection of platform engineering and data infrastructure, owning reliability, automation, and delivery of systems that power our data pipelines and analytics.

You will build and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps tooling to enable data engineering teams to ship high-quality data products quickly and safely.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE; at least 2 years in data engineering.
• Deep expertise with AWS core services (S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Secrets Manager, CloudFormation/CDK).
• Hands-on experience with AWS data services: Glue, Athena, S3 lifecycle and encryption.
• Proficiency with IaC tools Terraform and/or 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).
• Observability: metrics, logging, tracing, alerting for data/platform services.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for AWS Glue ETL jobs and related data infra.
• Build and manage AWS-based cloud infrastructure using Terraform/CDK.
• Own observability stack with metrics, logs, and alerts for SLA compliance.
• Develop DataOps tooling and pipeline templates for rapid production pipelines.
• Manage container/infrastructure for data ingestion microservices and workers.
• Operate workflow orchestration (MWAA/Airflow, Step Functions) including scaling.
• Build and maintain Glue ETL jobs (PySpark) for large-scale data ingestion.
• Drive security practices: Secrets Manager, least privilege IAM, network segmentation.

Skills

DevOps

Data engineering

AWS

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Observability

Communication

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

ECS

EKS

Airflow

Job description

Proofpoint in Argentina is seeking a Senior DevOps and Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team. This remote role sits at the intersection of platform engineering and data infrastructure, owning reliability, automation, and delivery of systems that power our data pipelines and analytics.

You will build and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps tooling to enable data engineering teams to ship high-quality data products quickly and safely.