Senior DevOps & Data Engineer - AWS Cloud & Data Pipelines

Homeward; Buenos Aires; Hybrid; ARS 2,000,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Flexible work environment

Annual wellness and community outreach

Recognition for contributions

Global collaboration

Job summary

Proofpoint cordoba-based position seeks a Senior DevOps and Data Engineer to own reliability and delivery of data pipelines and analytics. You will build cloud infrastructure (AWS-first), CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps tooling enabling data engineers to ship high-quality data products faster.

You will contribute to the design and operation of data pipelines using AWS Glue, Athena, and S3, with a strong emphasis on observability and security.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering, with at least 2 years of 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 IaC tools: Terraform and/or AWS CDK for managing production cloud environments.
• Strong CI/CD experience: designing and maintaining pipelines in GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and promotion of AWS Glue ETL jobs, Athena views, and related data infrastructure.
• Build and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform and/or AWS CDK).
• Own the observability stack for data pipelines: metrics, logs, and alerts to ensure SLA compliance and fast incident response.
• Develop and maintain the DataOps platform-self-service tooling and shared libraries for production-grade pipelines.
• Manage container and compute infrastructure (Docker, ECS/EKS, or Lambda) to support data ingestion microservices and orchestration workers.
• Design and operate workflow orchestration environments (Airflow / MWAA, Step Functions).
• Build and maintain AWS Glue ETL jobs (PySpark) for data ingestion and transformation on S3.
• Drive security best practices: secrets management, least-privilege IAM, network segmentation, compliance controls.
• Collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, and security teams to translate requirements into scalable infrastructure.
• Lead incident response for data platform outages: on-call, root-cause analysis, post-mortems.
• Mentor junior engineers on DevOps and data engineering practices.

Skills

DevOps

AWS

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Security

Observability

Data engineering

Communication

Tools

AWS Glue

Athena

S3

Airflow

Terraform

CDK

Docker

ECS

EKS

Kubernetes

Job description

Proofpoint cordoba-based position seeks a Senior DevOps and Data Engineer to own reliability and delivery of data pipelines and analytics. You will build cloud infrastructure (AWS-first), CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps tooling enabling data engineers to ship high-quality data products faster.

You will contribute to the design and operation of data pipelines using AWS Glue, Athena, and S3, with a strong emphasis on observability and security.