Senior DevOps & Data Platform Engineer

Kavak; Buenos Aires; Hybrid; ARS 139,086,000 - 200,903,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Flexible work environment

Job summary

Proofpoint seeks a Senior DevOps and Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team. You will own reliability, automation, and delivery of data pipelines, building cloud infrastructure (AWS-first) and CI/CD tooling to ship data products quickly and safely.

You will design and operate data pipelines with AWS Glue, Athena, and S3, maintain observability, and contribute to security, scalability, and developer experience across the platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE.
• Hands-on data engineering experience is required.
• Strong knowledge of AWS core services and data tooling.
• Experience with IaC and CI/CD tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for data infra and ETL jobs.
• Build and manage AWS infrastructure using IaC (Terraform / CDK).
• Own observability: metrics, logs, alerts for data pipelines.
• Develop DataOps self‑service tooling and reusable templates.
• Manage container and compute infra (Docker, ECS/EKS, Lambda).
• Operate workflow orchestration (MWAA / Airflow) with reliability hardening.
• Build and maintain AWS Glue ETL jobs for large‑scale ingestion.
• Drive security best practices: secrets, least privilege, networking.
• Lead incident response and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

AWS core services

CI/CD engineering

Communication skills

Mentoring juniors

Observability design

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Airflow / MWAA

Job description

Proofpoint seeks a Senior DevOps and Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team. You will own reliability, automation, and delivery of data pipelines, building cloud infrastructure (AWS-first) and CI/CD tooling to ship data products quickly and safely.

You will design and operate data pipelines with AWS Glue, Athena, and S3, maintain observability, and contribute to security, scalability, and developer experience across the platform.