Site Reliablity Engineer III
Proofpoint
Skill Required
Key highlights
- 4-5 years experience required
- Site Reliability Engineer / SRE role
- Kubernetes and AWS required
- Grafana dashboards and metrics monitoring
Role overview
Proofpoint is a global leader in human- and agent-centric cybersecurity, protecting how people, data, and AI agents connect across email, cloud, and collaboration tools. We protect 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. We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. The role is for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help build, deploy, scale, and operate highly reliable distributed systems, playing a key role in deploying and managing platforms across multiple regions to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance.
Responsibilities
- Deploy, manage, and scale distributed platforms across multiple geographic regions
- Design and maintain Kubernetes-based infrastructure for large-scale applications
- Build and manage Helm charts for efficient and repeatable deployments
- Monitor system health using Grafana dashboards and metrics; proactively identify and resolve issues
- Improve system reliability, performance, and scalability through automation and best practices
- Handle large-scale deployments and improve infrastructure for growth
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure smooth CI/CD and production readiness
- Implement observability, alerting, and incident response processes
- Troubleshoot production issues and perform root cause analysis
- Write and maintain run books for incident response
Requirements
- 4–5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or similar roles
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments
- Strong experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, git...)
- Strong experience with AWS (eks, vpc, s3, ecr, iam role etc)
- Solid experience with Helm charts for application deployment
- Strong experience in bash scripting and tooling
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems and high-availability architectures
- Strong understanding of containerization, micro-services, and cloud-native ecosystems
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools
- Good debugging and problem-solving skills in production environments
Nice to have
- Proficiency in at least one of the following: Golang, Python
- Experience building and managing Grafana dashboards and metrics
- Knowledge of monitoring and observability stacks (Prometheus, Loki, etc)
- Experience with multi-region deployments and global infrastructure
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Comprehensive benefits
- Career success on your terms
- Flexible work environment
- Annual wellness and community outreach days
- Always on recognition for your contributions
- Global collaboration and networking opportunities
Additional details
- 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
- 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
- Our culture is rooted in values that inspire belonging, empower purpose and drive success-every day, for everyone
- We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation
- We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives
- If you need accommodation during the application or interview process, please reach out to [contact not specified]