Senior SRE: 24x7 Cloud Reliability & Automation Lead

Proofpoint; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 102,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Flexible work environment

Job summary

Proofpoint is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to deepen understanding of services powering our next generation security products. You will help architect and scale production services across data centers and AWS, focusing on reliability, performance, and capacity.

The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and strong automation skills, with an on-call rotation and cross-functional teamwork across Product, Engineering and Operations.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in troubleshooting, tuning systems, networks and cloud services.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering or related field; US citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a 24x7 multi-site production infrastructure.
• Deploy, troubleshoot, and tune Proofpoint services for reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Operations to meet rollout goals.
• Monitor, alert, capacity planning and reporting in production environments.
• Contribute to the design and architecture of scalable infrastructure.
• Participate in on-call rotations to address escalated issues.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Cloud & networking

IaC (Terraform)

Automation (Node.js/Python)

OpenStack/Vmware

Monitoring & alerting

Communication

Public cloud (AWS)

Education

BS/MS in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

KVM

VMware vSphere

OpenStack

Job description

Proofpoint is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to deepen understanding of services powering our next generation security products. You will help architect and scale production services across data centers and AWS, focusing on reliability, performance, and capacity.

The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and strong automation skills, with an on-call rotation and cross-functional teamwork across Product, Engineering and Operations.