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# Senior Proofpoint Messaging Security Engineer

- **Company:** Abhyanth Solutions
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Linux, Email Filtering, Linux System Administration, Linux Servers, Mailing List, Simple Mail Transfer Protocols, Virtualization Technology, IronPort, Firewall Services Module, Cisco, Vmware
- **Published:** August 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/d614435c-5efc-440b-a3e4-a11606ffc1d7

## About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Proofpoint Messaging Security Engineer with extensive hands-on experience in enterprise email security environments. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise with Proofpoint, including IronPort-to-Proofpoint migrations, Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway 8.x, firewall rule configuration, email block/quarantine management, Linux, and VMware., * Strong hands-on enterprise Proofpoint experience.

 * Proven experience leading or supporting IronPort-to-Proofpoint migrations.
 * Hands-on experience with Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway 8.x.
 * Strong knowledge of Proofpoint firewall rules and email block/allow list management.
 * Experience managing email quarantine, release, and message-handling requests.
 * Deep understanding of MTA, SMTP, mail flow, and enterprise messaging environments.
 * Strong Linux Server administration and troubleshooting experience.
 * Hands-on experience with VMware/virtualized environments.
 * Strong troubleshooting skills across complex email security and messaging infrastructure.
 * Solid understanding of enterprise email security architecture, filtering, mail routing, and quarantine management.

## Description

* Lead and support the migration of on-premises Cisco IronPort email security appliances to Proofpoint cloud-based email security, ensuring a smooth transition with minimal impact to enterprise email services.
 * Design, configure, implement, and maintain Proofpoint as an enterprise-grade email security solution.
 * Configure and manage Proofpoint firewall rules, email filtering policies, and enterprise block/allow lists.
 * Manage email quarantine operations, including responding to requests to quarantine, review, release, and manage messages within Proofpoint.
 * Configure, administer, and troubleshoot Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway (MSG) environments.
 * Apply a strong understanding of Mail Transfer Agents (MTA), SMTP, mail flow, and enterprise messaging infrastructure to troubleshoot complex email delivery and security issues.
 * Provide hands-on support for Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway 8.x environments.
 * Administer and troubleshoot applications and services running in Linux server environments.
 * Support and troubleshoot VMware and virtualized infrastructure associated with enterprise messaging and security systems.
 * Investigate and resolve complex enterprise email security, messaging, mail-flow, filtering, and delivery issues.
 * Maintain a strong understanding of email security architecture, filtering technologies, quarantine management, mail routing, and enterprise messaging infrastructure.
 * Collaborate with infrastructure, network, security, and messaging teams to ensure reliable and secure enterprise email operations.


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