Sr. Service Reliability Engineer

The Role

As a Service Reliability Engineer at Proofpoint you will be responsible for provisioning, maintaining, and scaling our production services and server farms across multiple data centers and in hyperscaler environments like AWS. You will contribute to the architecture to improve scalability, service reliability, capacity, and performance. You will write automation code for provisioning and operating this infrastructure at massive scale. You will work with development and QA on building pipelines and automation for delivering and deploying production applications to this infrastructure.

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

• Assist in the design, testing, and rollout of a Microsoft Exchange environment mixed with the Proofpoint Archiving Product line.
• Manage a heterogeneous (Linux/Windows) multi-site global 7x24 environment.
• Help ensure proper security, monitoring, alerting and reporting are in place for the infrastructure.
• Support multiple VMware vSphere environments.
• Work with and provide cross training to other Operations team members to help ensure adequate overall coverage.
• Troubleshooting and resolving escalated issues.
• Capacity planning for all aspects of the infrastructure.
• Developing and maintaining processes, tools, and documentation in support of the production environment. Experience with configuration management at scale is an asset.
• Participate in evaluation of new software, hardware and infrastructure solutions.
• Participation on-call rotation and be available 24/7 in an escalation capacity.

What you bring to the team

• BS or MIS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Strong working knowledge of Active Directory/Exchange Server/Windows Server internals and core systems services (Mailbox, Hub Transport/Edge Transport, Client Access, Database Availability Group, Active, Directory, Clustering, DNS, SMTP, DHCP, NFS, SMB, LDAP, etc.).
• Working knowledge of Linux and core systems services.
• Thorough understanding of Ethernet and TCP/IP networking.
• Experience running a medium to large scale Windows mixed environment.
• Ability to work on multiple projects in parallel while maintaining quality from start to finish.
• Skilled in consolidation and optimization of computing environment.
• Experience with the design, implementation, and maintenance of Microsoft Exchange & Active Directory.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. This position will be required to work with teams across the organization.
• Minimum of 5 years hands-on detailed Windows Exchange & Active Directory experience.
• Experience with public cloud providers such as AWS or Microsoft Azure.

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 developing great teams is key to our success! We are a multi-national company with locations in many countries, with each location contributing to Proofpoint’s amazing culture! #LI-AN1

Why Proofpoint? At Proofpoint, we believe that an exceptional career experience includes a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. Here are just a few reasons you’ll love working with us:

• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive benefits
• Learning & Development: We are committed to the growth and development of our team members, offering a range of programs including leadership and professional development workshops, stretch project assignments, and mentoring opportunities to help employees reach their full potential.
• Flexible work environment: [Remote options, hybrid schedules, flexible hours, etc.].
• Annual wellness and community outreach days
• Always on recognition for your contributions
• Global collaboration and networking opportunities

Our Culture:

Our culture is rooted in values that inspire belonging, empower purpose and drive success-every day, for everyone. 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 accessibility@proofpoint.com. How to Apply Interested? Submit your application here https://www.proofpoint.com/us/company/careers. We can’t wait to hear from you!

Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable compensation and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package, including flexible time off, a comprehensive well-being program with two paid Wellbeing Days and two paid Volunteer Days per year, plus a three-week Work from Anywhere option.

Base Pay Ranges:

SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area:

Base Pay Range: 132,160.00 - 207,680.00 USD

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska:

Base Pay Range: 109,410.00 - 171,930.00 USD

All other cities and states excluding those listed above:

Base Pay Range: 98,700.00 - 155,100.00 USD