Azure Data & Infrastructure Engineer

S&P Global; George Town; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness

Flexible downtime

Continuous Learning

Invest in Your Future

Family Friendly Perks

Beyond the Basics

Job summary

S&P Global is seeking an experienced Azure infrastructure specialist in Malaysia to design, build, and operate secure, scalable cloud platforms enabling analytics, reporting, and AI workloads. You will own landing zones, networking, identity, security baselines, and reliability, while driving data pipelines and Azure data platforms across Fabric, Synapse, Data Factory, Data Lake, SQL, and Cosmos DB.

You will collaborate with security, analytics, BI, and AI teams to deliver high‑availability

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on experience with Azure core infrastructure services.
• Strong understanding of networking and security concepts in cloud environments.
• Experience building and operating IaC-driven platforms.
• Familiarity with CAF, Well-Architected Framework and Zero Trust principles.
• Experience supporting mission-critical production systems.
• Strong experience with Azure data services (Fabric or Synapse, ADF, ADLS, SQL).
• Solid SQL skills and data transformation patterns.
• Experience building batch and/or streaming pipelines.
• Understanding of modern analytics architectures (lakehouse, data mesh).
• Ability to support production data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate Azure landing zones aligned to CAF and governance standards.
• Build and manage Azure networking (VNETs, peering, VPN/ExpressRoute, Private Endpoints, DNS).
• Implement identity and access using Entra ID, RBAC, PIM, and Conditional Access.
• Own compute and platform services (VMs, VMSS, AKS, App Service environments).
• Implement infrastructure as code using Bicep, ARM, Terraform, or similar.
• Monitor and optimize availability, performance, and cost (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Cost Management).
• Partner with security teams on policy, compliance, and threat protection.
• Support production workloads with SRE/operations discipline (patching, backup, DR).
• Design and implement end-to-end data pipelines on Azure.
• Build and operate Azure data platforms (Fabric, Synapse, Data Factory, Data Lake, SQL, Cosmos DB).
• Ingest data from operational systems, SaaS platforms, and streaming sources.
• Develop data models optimized for analytics and downstream consumption.
• Ensure data quality, reliability, and performance at scale.
• Implement security and governance (Purview, RBAC, data access controls).
• Partner with analytics, BI, and AI teams to enable insights and use cases.
• Optimize cost and performance across data workloads.

Skills

Azure core infra

Networking concepts

Security concepts

Identity and access

IaC platforms

Azure data services

SQL data transformations

Batch and streaming pipelines

Data analytics architecture

Production data platforms

Terraform

Bicep

ARM

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Cost Management

Entra ID / RBAC / PIM

Tools

Bicep

ARM

Terraform

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Job description

S&P Global is seeking an experienced Azure infrastructure specialist in Malaysia to design, build, and operate secure, scalable cloud platforms enabling analytics, reporting, and AI workloads. You will own landing zones, networking, identity, security baselines, and reliability, while driving data pipelines and Azure data platforms across Fabric, Synapse, Data Factory, Data Lake, SQL, and Cosmos DB.

You will collaborate with security, analytics, BI, and AI teams to deliver high‑availability