Company Overview

At Proofpoint, We Have a Passion For Protecting People, Data, And Brands From Today’s Advanced Threats And Compliance Risks. We Hire The Best People In The Business To

  • Build and enhance our proven security platform
  • Blend innovation and speed in a constantly evolving cloud architecture
  • Analyze new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven intel
  • Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security challenges
    We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect what matters most. That’s why we’re a leader in next- generation cybersecurity—and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner.

The Role

As a Junior Service Reliability Engineer at ProofPoint you will be responsible for provisioning, maintaining, and scaling our production services and server farms across multiple data centers. You will contribute to the architecture to improve scalability, service reliability, capacity, and performance..

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

  • Install, configure, and upgrade nodes in high availability customer production clusters.
  • Manage an international 24x7, multi-site production infrastructure powering the Proofpoint services, including deployment, maintenance, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and security.
  • Ensure proper monitoring, alerting, capacity planning and reporting in the production environment.

  • Contribute to the evolving design and architecture of reliable and scalable infrastructure.
    What you bring to the team

  • Demonstrable skills and 1+ years’ experience managing, troubleshooting, and tuning Linux systems.
  • Experience automating management of systems and applications using Perl, Python, or Ruby.
  • Knowledge of industry-standard foundation technologies such as DNS, SMTP, NTP, LDAP, and NFS.
  • Experience in management of a large distributed computing environment.
  • Knowledge of virtualization
  • VMware vSphere, ESX, ESXi, and vCenter , Open Stack and KVM.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Experience with monitoring and alerting systems.
    Why Proofpoint

As a customer focused and driven-to-win organization with leading edge products, there are many exciting reasons to join the Proofpoint team. We believe in hiring the best the brightest and cultivating a culture of collaboration and appreciation. As we continue to grow and expand globally, we understand that hiring the right people and treating them well is key to our success! We are a multi-national company with locations in 10 countries, with each location contributing to Proofpoint’s amazing culture!

Desired Skills and Experience

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