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101 Proofpoint, Inc. is Hiring a Senior Database Administrator Near Sunnyvale, CA
It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. 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. The Role and the Team As a Senior Database Administrator at Proofpoint, you will be responsible for provisioning, maintaining, and scaling our most critical data storage and intelligence platforms. You will build, maintain, and scale production services and server farms across multiple global data centers and public cloud providers. You will contribute to the product architecture to improve our services' performance, operability, scalability, service reliability, capacity, and observability. 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 builds and tunes the highest performing databases out there, remains calm in a crisis, collaborates well, and codes automation we want to talk to you! Your Day to Day Collaborate with our other team members to manage both our production SQL-based and Cassandra/NoSQL databases. Manage mission-critical high transaction rate databases, including configuration, administration, monitoring, security management, performance optimization, replication, troubleshooting, and backup of both traditional SQL databases (MySQL/Percona) and NoSQL databases (Cassandra/MongoDB.) 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. Collaborate with product engineering teams to ensure Operations standards are observed, determine resource impacts for upcoming product deployments, and ensure successful product rollouts. Develop processes, tools, and documentation in support of production operations. What you bring to the team 7 years of relevant experience in the design, maintenance, and administration of NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB) required. 6 years of relevant experience in the design, maintenance, and administration of traditional SQL-based databases (MySQL, MariaDB, Percona) required. Experience managing Kafka message bus infrastructures strongly preferred. Experience automating management of systems & database using common scripting languages Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and a demonstrated track record of leveraging them to evangelize technical best practices with databases/data intelligence platforms. Experience with monitoring and alerting systems. Experience with industry-standard operational practices such as change management, incident management, and working in both public clouds and traditional colocation datacenters. Experience using Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or analogous configuration management systems. BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience required. Why Proofpoint Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization 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! #LifeAtPFPT #LI-JR1#LI-Remote If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
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