Kubernetes & Service Mesh Platform Lead (AWS/EKS)

Grab; Indonesia; On-site; IDR 600,000,000 - 1,000,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex benefits

Parental leave

LASA volunteering leave

Grabber Assistance Programme

FlexWork arrangements

Job summary

Grab is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer – Kubernetes & Service Mesh to design, build, and operate high-scale container and service mesh infrastructure powering Grab's backend services. You will lead multi-cluster AWS EKS strategies, Istio service mesh implementations, and cross-team enablement from Jakarta.

This onsite role emphasizes deep technical execution, platform architecture, and reliability. You will mentor engineers on modern Kubernetes, mesh architecture, and distributed

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or cloud platforms.
• Expert-level Kubernetes architecture and container technologies knowledge.
• Hands-on experience with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Proven ability to design automated CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices.
• Strong Linux/Unix administration and networking fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate high-scale container and service mesh infrastructure.
• Architect and manage large AWS EKS clusters with multi-cluster/topologies.
• Build self-service tooling and GitOps workflows for internal teams.
• Lead incident response, runbooks, and post-incident analyses.
• Mentor mid-level and senior engineers in Kubernetes and distributed systems.

Skills

Kubernetes expertise

Mentoring teams

GitOps practices

Multi-cloud management

Scripting (Python/Bash/Go)

Linux/Unix administration

CI/CD pipelines

Observability mindset

Tools

Istio Service Mesh

Linkerd

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Helm

Kustomize

OpenTelemetry/Jaeger

Prometheus Grafana ELK

Job description

Grab is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer – Kubernetes & Service Mesh to design, build, and operate high-scale container and service mesh infrastructure powering Grab's backend services. You will lead multi-cluster AWS EKS strategies, Istio service mesh implementations, and cross-team enablement from Jakarta.

This onsite role emphasizes deep technical execution, platform architecture, and reliability. You will mentor engineers on modern Kubernetes, mesh architecture, and distributed