Bare‑Metal Infra Platform Engineer (MAAS, Hybrid)

AMD; Penang; Hybrid; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

AMD benefits

Job summary

AMD is seeking an Infrastructure Platform Engineer in Penang, Malaysia, to provide L2 support for MAAS, Linux imaging, and bare-metal provisioning within AMD Fleet Services. The role emphasizes incident management, advanced diagnosis, and coordinated restorations across offshore and US-based teams.

The ideal candidate will be a hands-on Linux and infrastructure engineer, documenting actions, improving automation, and driving reliability of server onboarding and lifecycle operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience considered.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting across boot, kernel, drivers, services, filesystems, networking, permissions, packages, performance, and logs.
• Hands-on experience with PXE, DHCP, DNS, TFTP, cloud-init, curtin, image repositories, and automated operating-system deployment.
• Experience building, testing, versioning, securing, and maintaining standardized Linux images and deployment pipelines.
• Automation experience with Python, shell, Ansible, REST APIs, Git, CI/CD, or configuration-management systems.
• Experience with Jira, major-incident response, change control, postmortems, and problem management.

Responsibilities

• Provide L2 incident management and technical support for MAAS, Linux, operating-system imaging, bare-metal provisioning, and host-lifecycle services used by AMD Fleet Services.
• Own technical investigation of incidents from L1 escalation through diagnosis, mitigation, recovery validation, documentation, and handoff or closure.
• Assess incident impact, priority, affected assets, dependencies, recovery options, risks, and required owners; provide concise updates during incident bridges and follow-the-sun handoffs.
• Validate L1 evidence, isolate provisioning, image, operating-system, network-boot, hardware-management, or automation failure domains, and execute approved recovery actions.
• Troubleshoot MAAS controllers, regions, racks, commissioning, deployment, enrollment, machine state, networking, storage layout, metadata, logs, and API interactions within assigned scope.

Job description

AMD is seeking an Infrastructure Platform Engineer in Penang, Malaysia, to provide L2 support for MAAS, Linux imaging, and bare-metal provisioning within AMD Fleet Services. The role emphasizes incident management, advanced diagnosis, and coordinated restorations across offshore and US-based teams.

The ideal candidate will be a hands-on Linux and infrastructure engineer, documenting actions, improving automation, and driving reliability of server onboarding and lifecycle operations.