Senior DevOps & Data Engineer - AWS Data Platform

Abstract; Buenos Aires; Hybrid; ARS 131,359,000 - 185,448,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Flexible work environment

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 and analytics capabilities, building and maintaining AWS-first infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps tooling to accelerate data product delivery.

You will design and operate data pipelines using AWS Glue, Athena, and S3, focusing on reliability and developer experience.

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.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools—Terraform and/or AWS CDK—for managing production cloud environments.
• Strong CI/CD experience: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent.
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration (ECS/EKS/Kubernetes).
• Proven ability to design and operate observability systems (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting) for data/platform services.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for AWS Glue ETL jobs, Athena views, and related data infrastructure.
• Build and manage AWS-based cloud infrastructure using IaC (Terraform and/or CDK).
• Own the observability stack for data pipelines with metrics, logs, and alerts.
• Develop and maintain the DataOps platform and self-service tooling.
• Manage container and compute infrastructure (Docker, ECS/EKS, Lambda).
• Operate workflow orchestration environments (MWAA/Airflow, Step Functions).
• Build and maintain AWS Glue ETL jobs (PySpark) for data ingestion and transformation.
• Drive security best practices across the data platform (Secrets Manager, IAM, network segmentation).
• Collaborate with data engineers/scientists/security to translate requirements into scalable infrastructure.
• Lead incident response for data platform outages and drive improvements.
• Mentor junior engineers on DevOps and data engineering practices.

Skills

DevOps

Data engineering

AWS

CI/CD

Terraform / CDK

Containerization

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Docker

ECS / EKS

Airflow

MWAA

Terraform

AWS CDK

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 and analytics capabilities, building and maintaining AWS-first infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps tooling to accelerate data product delivery.

You will design and operate data pipelines using AWS Glue, Athena, and S3, focusing on reliability and developer experience.