Senior DevOps & Data Engineer – AWS Cloud, Glue & Airflow

Werben HR LLC; Buenos Aires; Hybrid; ARS 12,000,000 - 24,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Global collaboration and networking

Job summary

Proofpoint is seeking a Senior DevOps and Data Engineer to join the Data Platform team in a hybrid role. You will own reliability, automation, and delivery of data pipelines, build cloud infrastructure (AWS-first), CI/CD tooling, and enable data teams to ship high-quality data products efficiently.

You will design and operate data pipelines with AWS Glue, Athena, and S3, focusing on security, observability, and developer experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE with at least 2 years in data engineering.
• Deep expertise with AWS core services: S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Secrets Manager, and CDK/CloudFormation.
• Hands-on with AWS data services: Glue, Athena, S3 lifecycle and encryption.
• IaC with Terraform and/or AWS CDK for managing production cloud environments.
• Strong CI/CD experience in GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent.
• Container technologies (Docker) and orchestration (ECS/EKS/Kubernetes).
• Observability: metrics, logging, tracing, alerts for data and platform services.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for AWS Glue ETL jobs and Athena views.
• Build and manage AWS-based infrastructure using IaC (Terraform / CDK).
• Own the observability stack: metrics, logs, alerts, incident response.
• Develop self-service DataOps tooling and reusable templates.
• Manage container and compute infra (Docker, ECS/EKS, or Lambda).
• Operate workflow environments (MWAA/Airflow, Step Functions).
• Create and maintain Glue ETL jobs for large-scale ingestion and transformation.
• Enforce security: Secrets Manager, least-privilege IAM, network segmentation.

Skills

AWS

Data engineering

CI/CD

Terraform

Docker

ECS/EKS

Airflow

Security

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Docker

Kubernetes

CloudFormation

Job description

Proofpoint is seeking a Senior DevOps and Data Engineer to join the Data Platform team in a hybrid role. You will own reliability, automation, and delivery of data pipelines, build cloud infrastructure (AWS-first), CI/CD tooling, and enable data teams to ship high-quality data products efficiently.

You will design and operate data pipelines with AWS Glue, Athena, and S3, focusing on security, observability, and developer experience.