Associate Service Reliability Engineer (Linux System Admin)

Proofpoint; Belfast; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A cybersecurity leader is seeking an Associate Service Reliability Engineer in Belfast to manage and troubleshoot production infrastructure. The ideal candidate has extensive Linux experience and a track record in automation. This role involves collaboration across teams to ensure service reliability and scalability in a fast-paced environment. Join a diverse team focused on defending data and protecting people.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience managing and troubleshooting Linux systems.
• Experience in a high volume, large deployment environment.
• Proficiency in automation using Python and Bash.

Responsibilities

• Manage an international 24x7 production infrastructure.
• Contribute to the design of reliable and scalable infrastructure.
• Evaluate new software and infrastructure solutions.

Skills

Linux systems management

Automation with frameworks

Observability technologies

Configuration management

Cloud technologies AWS and Azure

Container orchestration

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Job description

Overview

About Us: We are the leader in human-centric cybersecurity. Half a million customers, including 87 of the Fortune 100, rely on Proofpoint to protect their organizations. We’re driven by a mission to stay ahead of bad actors and safeguard the digital world. Join us in our pursuit to defend data and protect people.

How We Work: At Proofpoint, you’ll be part of a global team that breaks barriers to redefine cybersecurity, guided by our BRAVE core values: Bold in how we dream and innovate, Responsive to feedback, challenges, and opportunities, Accountable for results and best-in-class outcomes, Visionary in future-focused problem-solving, Exceptional in execution and impact.

Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity. Protection Starts with People. Proofpoint.

The Role

As an Associate Service Reliability Engineer at Proofpoint you will develop a deep understanding of the various infrastructure services and applications that are the critical foundation for delivering Proofpoint’s next generation security products.

You will contribute to the architecture to improve scalability, operability, service reliability, capacity, and performance. You will be responsible for provisioning, maintaining, and scaling our production services across a hybrid cloud environment.

You bring a ‘cloud first’ mentality to the table and will work cross-functionally to improve automation and orchestration platforms needed to scale the business.

We are looking for passion, curiosity, attention to details, taking pride in one\'s work, taking ownership, and having ideas/opinions. If you’re the enthusiastic team player who cares about the infrastructure, remains calm in crisis, collaborates cross functionally, and easily writes code for automation we want to talk to you.

Your day-to-day

• Build long lasting, effective partnerships across the organization to foster collaboration between Engineering, Product Operations, and other Infrastructure Operations teams.
• Organize and manage multiple simultaneous projects
• Manage an international 24x7, multi-site production infrastructure powering the Proofpoint services, including deployment, maintenance, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and security
• Root-cause complex problems and involve multiple stakeholders, network, hardware and software that relate to scaling and performance
• Ensure proper monitoring, alerting, capacity planning and reporting in the production environment
• Contribute to the evolving design and architecture of reliable and scalable infrastructure
• Develop processes, tools, and documentation in support of production operations
• Evaluate new software, hardware and infrastructure solutions
• Participate in an on-call rotation and be willing to jump on escalated issues as needed.

What you bring to the team

• Demonstrable skills and proven experience managing, troubleshooting, and tuning Linux systems
• Demonstrable experience working in a high volume, large deployment, multi-datacentre / multi-cloud environment
• Experience automating management of systems and applications using common frameworks, platforms and coding languages
• Experience with observability technologies such as Open Telemetry and Prometheus or similar
• Experience with industry-standard foundation technologies such as TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, SMTP, and LDAP
• Experience in management of a large, distributed computing environment
• Experience with common virtualization platforms – KVM, VMware vSphere, ESX, ESXi, and vCenter
• Advanced knowledge and experience with multiple cloud providers and technologies including AWS and Azure
• Experience with configuration management such as Puppet or Chef, scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) and experience with automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
• Experience with industry-standard operational practices such as change management, incident management, and working in colocation datacentres
• Experience with containers and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes desired
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Self-motivated, able to work both independently and cross-functionally.

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint!

Our Culture:

Our culture is rooted in values that inspire belonging, empower purpose and drive success-every day, for everyone. If you need accommodation during the application or interview process, please reach out to [e-mail]. How to Apply Interested? Submit your application here https://www.proofpoint.com/us/company/careers. We can’t wait to hear from you!