Senior DevOps & Data Platform Engineer

Paired; Buenos Aires; Hybrid; ARS 185,448,000 - 278,173,000; Full time

Job summary

Proofpoint is seeking a Senior DevOps and Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team in a hybrid role based in Argentina. You will own reliability, automation, and delivery of data pipelines and analytics infrastructure on AWS, building CI/CD, and operational tooling to accelerate data product shipping.

You will design and operate data workflows with Glue, Athena, and S3, while advancing observability, security, and developer experience for data engineers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps or platform engineering, with at least 2 years in data engineering.
• Deep expertise with AWS core services: S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Secrets Manager.
• Hands-on experience with AWS data services: Glue (ETL), Athena, and S3 lifecycle and security.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools: Terraform and/or AWS CDK.
• Strong CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent.
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration (ECS/EKS/Kubernetes).
• Proven ability to design and operate observability systems for data and platform services.
• Strong communication to translate operational concerns for diverse audiences.

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 IaC (Terraform and/or AWS CDK).
• Own the observability stack for data pipelines: metrics, logs, and alerts for SLA compliance.
• Develop and maintain the DataOps platform and self-service tooling for data engineers.
• Manage container and compute infrastructure (Docker, ECS/EKS, or Lambda) for data ingestion services.
• Design and operate workflow orchestration environments (MWAA / Airflow), including upgrades and reliability hardening.
• Build and maintain AWS Glue ETL jobs (PySpark) for large-scale data ingestion and transformation.
• Drive security best practices (Secrets Manager, IAM, network segmentation).
• Collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, and security teams to translate requirements into scalable infra.
• Lead incident response for data platform outages; perform root-cause analysis and post-mortems.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to architecture decisions.

Skills

DevOps

Platform engineering

SRE experience

Communication

Data engineering

AWS expertise

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CDK

GitHub Actions

ECS/EKS

Airflow

Glue

Athena

Job description

Proofpoint is seeking a Senior DevOps and Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team in a hybrid role based in Argentina. You will own reliability, automation, and delivery of data pipelines and analytics infrastructure on AWS, building CI/CD, and operational tooling to accelerate data product shipping.

You will design and operate data workflows with Glue, Athena, and S3, while advancing observability, security, and developer experience for data engineers.