Junior Platform Engineer (Belfast)

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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 

Join as a member of our platform team with the Tessian Group - make your mark on some exciting projects (Kubernetes migration, Scaling and Data Storage Challenges) and contribute to the team’s mission to supercharge our Engineers and Data Scientists productivity, enable the group for hypergrowth and lead the way on security, reliability and cost effectivity.

Bringing your data expertise to upskill both the team and work closely across our other engineering teams.  

Your day-to-day

-Design, implement and maintain infrastructure and services within cloud environments.

-Contribute to delivery of key projects addressing challenges around scaling, data storage, data privacy and security. 

-Aid in delivery of our Kubernetes migration 

-Embed in the Platform team and become a key player in projects across Engineering and Security 

-Implement process and quality improvements through task automation.

-Drive and promote best practice with regards to data storage and longer term architectural decisions across teams 

What you bring to the team:

-You have a proven technical background and enjoy working with high performance teams.

-You have an eagerness to learn and pick up new technologies as required.

-You understand the benefits that CI/CD brings to modern architecture and can empathize with the challenges of engineers not having one.

-You believe in the model of self-service and automation.

-You thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment and are comfortable with changes in direction. 

Experience:

-Proven understanding of the significance of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and active involvement in contributing to IaC initiatives, ensuring infrastructure provisioning and management is automated and version-controlled.

-Hands-on experience with containerization technologies such as Docker, alongside proficiency in orchestration tools like Kubernetes, enabling the deployment and management of containerized applications at scale.

-Proficiency in at least one programming language (preferably Python) and a keen willingness to engage with and work in diverse programming languages, showcasing adaptability and a commitment to continuous learning.

-AWS - experience with services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, ELK, RDS Aurora  

-Demonstrated experience in facilitating the adoption of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices within software development life cycles (SDLC), aiding developers in implementing efficient CI/CD pipelines.

Why Proofpoint   

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success.  We’re a customer-focused and driven-to-win organisation 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! #LifeAtProofpoint #LI-Hybrid
 

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!