Senior Data Platform & DevOps Lead

Pwc Argentina; Buenos Aires; Hybrid; ARS 139,086,000 - 216,357,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Annual wellness days

Global collaboration and networking

Job summary

Proofpoint is seeking a Senior DevOps and Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team. This hybrid role owns the reliability, automation, and delivery of data pipelines, building AWS-first infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps tooling that empower data engineers to ship high-quality data products faster and more safely.

You will work with AWS Glue, Athena, and S3, bringing a strong operational mindset to data engineering.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps or site reliability engineering.
• Deep expertise with AWS core services (S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch).
• Hands-on with AWS data services: Glue, Athena, and S3.
• Proficiency with IaC tools: Terraform and/or AWS CDK.
• Strong CI/CD experience and container orchestration knowledge.
• Excellent communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and promotion of data infrastructure.
• Build and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS using IaC (Terraform/CDK).
• Own observability stack for data pipelines: metrics, logs, alerts.
• Develop and maintain DataOps self-service tooling and templates.
• Manage container and compute infrastructure (Docker, ECS/EKS, Lambda).
• Operate workflow orchestration environments (MWAA/Airflow, Step Functions).
• Build and maintain Glue ETL jobs for large-scale data ingestion.
• Enforce security best practices (Secrets, IAM, network segmentation).
• Collaborate with data engineers/scientists to translate requirements into scalable infra.
• Lead incident response and post-mortem improvements.
• Mentor junior engineers and conduct code/design reviews.

Skills

AWS core services

Terraform / CDK

GitHub Actions

Docker

ECS / EKS

Apache Airflow

MWAA

Data observability

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

AWS CDK

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Job description

Proofpoint is seeking a Senior DevOps and Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team. This hybrid role owns the reliability, automation, and delivery of data pipelines, building AWS-first infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps tooling that empower data engineers to ship high-quality data products faster and more safely.

You will work with AWS Glue, Athena, and S3, bringing a strong operational mindset to data engineering.