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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:
The Role
We are seeking a Security DevOps Engineer experienced with different programming languages and an in-depth understanding of software security to join our Development Systems team in our Pittsburgh office located in the Strip District.
Our team is responsible for supporting the various PSAT products while working with each development team to understand their architecture, make security recommendations, and be able to facilitate security approvals to ensure that architectural changes follow security Best Practices. This hands-on position will require the candidate to be able to work with the development teams as necessary to assist with the implementation of security recommendations, from architect discussions to pair programming as necessary.
The ideal candidate should have a thirst for technology with extensive development experience and a proven knowledge of addressing security concerns in software design and development. As a Security DevOps Engineer, you will be expected to drive the security process. This includes educating the development teams on the process, continued meetings with teams to stay abreast of their technical direction, ensuring compliance with our Application Security teams, and working closely with the Application Security teams to share their overall recommendations with the PSAT development teams. The ideal candidate will take charge of this initiative and bring their own successes to the teams to ensure all teams follow these Best Practices.
Your day to day
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!
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.
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
The Role
We are seeking a Security DevOps Engineer experienced with different programming languages and an in-depth understanding of software security to join our Development Systems team in our Pittsburgh office located in the Strip District.
Our team is responsible for supporting the various PSAT products while working with each development team to understand their architecture, make security recommendations, and be able to facilitate security approvals to ensure that architectural changes follow security Best Practices. This hands-on position will require the candidate to be able to work with the development teams as necessary to assist with the implementation of security recommendations, from architect discussions to pair programming as necessary.
The ideal candidate should have a thirst for technology with extensive development experience and a proven knowledge of addressing security concerns in software design and development. As a Security DevOps Engineer, you will be expected to drive the security process. This includes educating the development teams on the process, continued meetings with teams to stay abreast of their technical direction, ensuring compliance with our Application Security teams, and working closely with the Application Security teams to share their overall recommendations with the PSAT development teams. The ideal candidate will take charge of this initiative and bring their own successes to the teams to ensure all teams follow these Best Practices.
Your day to day
- Work with the technical leads on each project to fully understand the existing and proposed architecture
- Work with DevOps team to support PSAT products
- Work with the Application Security team to keep the PSAT teams plugged into the corporate security vision
- Act as liaison to Application Security team to assist development squads in security reviews
- Identify DevOps tasks that can be automated and implement automated/scripted solutions
- Improve DevOps utilities by automating/scripting
- Work with DevOps to review deployment configurations
- Bridge the gap between DevOps and Development Squads to assist each camp in implementing and/improving CICD processes
- Help architect / develop coding solutions to assist in teams meeting the security requirements
- 4+ years of development experience with Java, Ruby, C#, or Python
- 4+ years working with distributed software
- 4+ years designing and/or architecting SAAS solutions
- 2+ years of software security lead experience
- 2+ years with experience/exposure to containerization and orchestration
- Security operations background that supports your understanding of security-specific tool needs (e.g. detection, forensics, log normalization, privilege separation, etc.)
- BA/BS in Computer Science/Engineering or a related technical field
- Solid understanding of CI/CD and working with tools like Jenkins or similar
- Experience writing both component integration tests as well as end-to-end acceptance tests
- Solid understanding of Restful web service architecture
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to manage deadlines and work effectively under pressure
- Security certifications (OWASP Top Ten certification / IT-Security Expert / Information Systems Security Architect / Cloud Security Professional / etc)
- AWS experience
- Database experience
- Experience with Git or other similar version control tools
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!
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!