Assistant Manager, DevOps

Pixlr; Subang Jaya; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Leaves

Medical Insurance

Optical and Dental Subsidies

Opportunities for Growth

Diversity in Workplace

Job summary

Pixlr is seeking an Assistant Manager, DevOps to lead our cloud infrastructure and DevOps operations. You will oversee cloud environments for performance, security, and scalability while guiding a skilled team toward operational excellence.

In this role you will design and optimise CI/CD pipelines, implement IaC with Terraform/Ansible, manage AWS and Kubernetes (EKS/ECS), and mentor engineers across cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, secure platform solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/SE or related field.
• 6–9 years hands-on DevOps experience.
• Strong AWS and Kubernetes (EKS/ECS) expertise.
• Proven CI/CD pipeline design and management.
• Monitoring, logging, and observability skills.
• Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.
• Leadership and mentorship capabilities.
• Excellent communication and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and optimisation of CI/CD pipelines to support efficient code integration, testing, and deployment.
• Define best practices for automated build, release, and deployment processes across development teams.
• Oversee reliable code delivery across development, staging, and production environments.
• Lead infrastructure automation using IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
• Manage and optimise cloud infrastructure across AWS environments and container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes - EKS/ECS).
• Continuously improve infrastructure architecture, scalability, and automation practices.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure high platform availability and operational visibility.
• Drive performance optimisation across applications and infrastructure to support scalable SaaS environments.
• Lead troubleshooting of complex infrastructure, deployment, and performance issues.
• Integrate security best practices into infrastructure design and deployment pipelines.
• Ensure infrastructure and deployment processes align with security and compliance requirements.
• Support security reviews, audits, and operational risk mitigation.
• Collaborate closely with software engineering, QA, product, and operations teams to deliver reliable infrastructure solutions.
• Provide DevOps expertise during system architecture discussions and technical planning.
• Promote DevOps best practices across engineering teams.
• Mentor DevOps engineers and support their technical development.
• Establish standards for infrastructure documentation, deployment workflows, and operational processes.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across engineering and platform operations.

Skills

DevOps

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/SE

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Join us as an Assistant Manager, DevOps and lead our cloud infrastructure and DevOps operations. Oversee cloud environments to ensure performance, security, and scalability, while guiding a skilled team toward operational excellence.

The Job:

• Lead the design and optimisation of CI/CD pipelines to support efficient code integration, testing, and deployment.
• Define best practices for automated build, release, and deployment processes across development teams.
• Oversee reliable code delivery across development, staging, and production environments.
• Lead infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
• Manage and optimise cloud infrastructure across AWS environments and container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes - EKS/ECS).
• Continuously improve infrastructure architecture, scalability, and automation practices.

3. Monitoring, Reliability & Performance Optimisation

• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure high platform availability and operational visibility.
• Drive performance optimisation across applications and infrastructure to support scalable SaaS environments.
• Lead troubleshooting of complex infrastructure, deployment, and performance issues.

4. Security & Operational Governance

• Integrate security best practices into infrastructure design and deployment pipelines.
• Ensure infrastructure and deployment processes align with security and compliance requirements.
• Support security reviews, audits, and operational risk mitigation.

5. Cross-Functional Engineering Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with software engineering, QA, product, and operations teams to deliver reliable infrastructure solutions.
• Provide DevOps expertise during system architecture discussions and technical planning.
• Promote DevOps best practices across engineering teams.
• Mentor DevOps engineers and support their technical development.
• Establish standards for infrastructure documentation, deployment workflows, and operational processes.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across engineering and platform operations.

Requirements

The Person:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 6-9 years of hands-on DevOps experience, preferably in cloud-native or SaaS environments.
• Strong expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure, container orchestration (Kubernetes - EKS/ECS), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible or equivalent).
• Proven experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines in modern cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of monitoring, logging, and observability tools for distributed systems.
• Experience troubleshooting cloud infrastructure, container platforms, and deployment pipelines.
• Familiarity with database technologies such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.
• Ability to lead DevOps initiatives and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on technically.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering teams.
• Annual Leaves- Additional annual leave will be credited to you on a yearly basis.
• Medical and Insurance Coverages - We have got you covered.
• Subsidies - Enhancing your well‑being, we offer optical and dental subsidies.
• Opportunities - Above training and guidance, you will have the opportunity to try, to build your confidence and become your best self, and to interact and build a strong relationship.
• Rocking Diversity- Play hard, work harder with people of diverse skill sets and experiences! Challange yourself to step out of your comfort zone, and you'll find yourself growing in way you'd never imagine.

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