Chief Infrastructure & Cloud Architect

Private Advertiser; Kuala Lumpur; Vor Ort; MYR 240.000 - 360.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Private Advertiser in Kuala Lumpur seeks an Infrastructure Architect (Head of Department) to own the company’s technology strategy, engineering organization, product development, infrastructure architecture, security, and system reliability. This senior hands-on leadership role combines CTO-level direction with deep infrastructure/SRE expertise.

The successful candidate will define the technical roadmap, lead Engineering, DevOps, and SRE teams, architect large-scale distributed systems, and

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related field.
• 8+ years of experience across software engineering, infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or systems architecture.
• 3+ years of experience leading engineering/technology teams.
• Strong experience designing large-scale distributed systems and highly available architectures.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, microservices, DevOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, and automation frameworks.
• Proven experience with AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Huawei Cloud, GCP, Azure, or other cloud platforms.
• Strong understanding of networking, cybersecurity, Zero Trust, WAF, DDoS protection, DNS, CDN, VPN, and enterprise security.
• Knowledge of database architecture, distributed storage, replication, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Experience establishing SRE, observability, SLO/SLI, incident management, and reliability engineering practices.
• Strong backend and application architecture knowledge across Java, Python, Go, PHP, or Node.js.
• Leadership, communication, problem-solving and strategic decision-making skills.
• Comfortable working in a hands-on technical leadership environment.
• Prefer candidates from the Klang Valley area.

Aufgaben

• Lead technology strategy, architecture roadmap, and technical transformation.
• Build, lead, mentor, and manage Engineering, DevOps, and SRE teams.
• Partner with founders and management on product strategy and technology direction.
• Own major architecture decisions, standards, and engineering reviews.
• Design IaC and automation standards using Terraform, Ansible, and related tools.
• Architect scalable distributed systems across Java, Python, Go, PHP, and Node.js.
• Design microservices, Kubernetes, container orchestration, and service governance.
• Lead capacity planning, cloud cost optimization/FinOps, high availability, and scalability.
• Design CDN, edge acceleration, traffic routing, multi-CDN scheduling, and global traffic management.
• Own DNS, domain, SSL/TLS, WAF, DDoS protection, and security architecture.
• Lead DevOps modernization, CI/CD platform development, containerization, and platform engineering.
• Design network and Zero Trust architecture (firewalls, VPNs, proxies, SD-WAN, remote access).
• Establish observability, monitoring, logging, tracing, SLO/SLI, and incident management standards.
• Architect database, storage, backup, replication, sharding, and multi-active systems.
• Develop BCP/DR strategies with appropriate RTO/RPO targets.
• Lead technical incident response and ensure system stability, security, availability, and resilience.
• Manage tech budgets, vendors, and partnerships.
• Establish engineering best practices, governance, and operational processes.

Kenntnisse

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

Microservices

DevOps

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Java

Python

Go

Security

SRE

Backend architecture

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Jobbeschreibung

Private Advertiser in Kuala Lumpur seeks an Infrastructure Architect (Head of Department) to own the company’s technology strategy, engineering organization, product development, infrastructure architecture, security, and system reliability. This senior hands-on leadership role combines CTO-level direction with deep infrastructure/SRE expertise.

The successful candidate will define the technical roadmap, lead Engineering, DevOps, and SRE teams, architect large-scale distributed systems, and