Senior Executive, DevOps & Release Engineering
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Summary
DevOps and release engineering role in Petaling Jaya: lead CI/CD pipeline design, automate infrastructure with Terraform/Ansible, and run AWS-based cloud and hybrid operations with SRE practices, monitoring, and financial-services compliance. Contractor position for 3-6 years of experience.
Senior Executive, DevOps & Release Engineering Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia 3 - 6 Years Contractor
Job Description
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- 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.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.
- Proven expertise in VMware, Linux, Wintel, storage, and data centre operations.
- Strong knowledge of cloud computing platforms (AWS, Alibaba, GCP, Azure).
- Hands-on experience with IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with containers (Docker, Kubernetes), serverless architectures, IAM, and SSO.
- Deep understanding of network computing, monitoring, alerting, and email systems.
- Knowledge of compliance frameworks and financial industry standards.
- Proficiency with source code repositories and CI/CD services such as GitLab, Bitbucket, and GitHub, including branching strategies, pipeline orchestration, and release governance.