DevOps & Release Engineer

• Pipeline & Release Management: Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of CI/CD pipelines for product and engineering deployments.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Drive automation using Terraform, Ansible, Atlantis, and related tooling to manage infrastructure across on-prem and cloud environments.
• Cloud & Hybrid Operations: Oversee deployments and operations across cloud computing platform (primarily AWS) including containers, RDS, serverless stacks, IAM, and SSO.
• Reliability Engineering: Champion SRE principles, ensuring high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), monitoring, and alerting practices.
• Toolchain Leadership: Manage and integrate tools such as GitLab, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, Slack, PagerDuty, Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.
• Security & Compliance: Ensure adherence to compliance frameworks, including financial regulations (e.g., Bank Negara RMIT), and enforce security standards across deployments.
• Collaboration & Leadership: Partner with product, engineering, and operations teams to drive automation, scripting, scheduling, and continuous improvement.
• Customer & Stakeholder Engagement: Provide technical leadership in customer-facing scenarios, especially within financial services environments.
• Documentation & Governance: Establish and maintain technical documentation, release governance, and decision-making frameworks.
• Cloud-Native & AI-Driven Innovations: Manage serverless and cloud-native services including Functions-as-a-Service (e.g., AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions), queuing and messaging systems (e.g., SQS, Kafka, Pub/Sub), and integrate AI-driven capabilities (predictive monitoring, intelligent automation, anomaly detection) to enhance DevOps efficiency and resilience.

Work Experience

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering, automation, and DevOps practices across hybrid environments (data center and cloud).
• Strong background in VMware stacks, Linux/Wintel systems, storage, and server administration within data centres.
• Practical experience in cloud computing platforms primarily AWS working on IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
• Extensive involvement in CI/CD pipeline development, release engineering, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry) in 24x7 operational environments.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with product and engineering teams on deployments, automation, and reliability improvements.
• Automation & Scripting: Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell) and automation frameworks.
• Monitoring & Observability: Expertise with Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, etc.
• Reliability & Resilience: Strong focus on scalability, DR, HA, and operational excellence in 24x7 environments.
• Collaboration & Communication: Skilled in cross-functional collaboration, documentation, and stakeholder communication.
• Compliance & Security Awareness: Knowledge of industry standards, regulatory requirements, and secure DevOps practices.