Cloud Engineer

Valmont Industries, Inc.; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Valmont Industries, Inc. in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia seeks an IT Cloud Engineer to architect, deliver, and support cloud platforms across business units. You will drive cloud readiness, governance, and cost optimization while collaborating with stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable, secure solutions.

The role emphasizes automation, DevOps best practices, and a strong focus on Azure, AWS, GCP, and related tools within a dynamic digital transformation initiative.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher with relevant cloud experience.
• 2+ years in design, manage, and develop information systems.
• Cloud service and tenant design and implementation.
• Leadership in enterprise cloud strategy, governance and delivery.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD tools.
• Automation and configuration management across hybrid environments.
• Migration planning and tooling to streamline repos and config.
• Strong knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Waterfall methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate complex systems across platforms with a focus on scalability and security.
• Research and evaluate new cloud technologies and practices.
• Run cloud operations and governance across Azure, AWS, GCP, and other tools.
• Maintain source control standards and CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead delivery of system enhancements and timely releases.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into technical requirements.
• Document architecture, specs, and operational processes.
• Drive cost optimization and security across cloud environments.

Skills

Cloud architecture

CI/CD

IaC

Multi-cloud

Security

Governance

Scripting

Migration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Associate degree

Relevant experience 6+ yrs

Tools

HashiCorp Terraform

Red Hat Ansible

GitHub Enterprise

Bitbucket

Azure DevOps

Job description

A Brief Summary of This Position:

“Conserving Resources, Improving Lives". That is what Valmont is about. We are a growing $4B company which is significantly investing in digital transformation. This is a critical initiative which is key to meeting our revenue targets. This position will be an engineer within our IT Cloud Center of Excellence team, helping to architect, deliver and support new and existing cloud platforms across all BU’s.

It is essential to embody Valmont’s core values of Passion, Integrity, Continuous Improvement, and Delivering Results while cultivating a workplace where employees feel valued, trusted, understood, and respected.

This position will be based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Essential Functions:

• Coordinate, Direct, and Curate complex systems involving multiple platforms and technologies, ensuring scalability, security, and performance.
• Research and evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and tools to continuously improve Valmont’s cloud architecture and development practices.
• Execute cloud operations and governance across all Valmont tenants and vendors including Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, AWS, HashiCorp (Terraform), and Red Hat (Ansible)ensuring compliance, security, and cost optimization.
• Maintain standards for Source Control repositories and development tools across Valmont’s global enterprise.
• Manage systems that enable development teams to build, test, and deploy code using CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices.
• Lead prioritization and delivery of system enhancements, ensuring timely and high-quality releases.
• Provide technical expertise in resolving complex problems and incidents across cloud environments.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand functional requirements and advise on optimal cloud-native or hybrid solutions.
• Translate business needs into technical requirements and guide development teams on necessary customizations.
• Evangelize cloud software development best practices across all business units, fostering consistency and innovation.
• Document and validate requirements in partnership with business users and sponsors.
• Align cloud strategy with Valmont’s strategic business drivers to support growth and innovation.
• Assess risks and proactively inform stakeholders of potential impacts to timelines or scope.
• Create and maintain technical specifications, architecture diagrams, and operational documentation.
• Enforce cloud security policies, including identity and access management, encryption, and compliance controls.
• Monitor and optimize cloud resource usage, implementing cost-saving strategies and performance improvements.
• Support disaster recovery and business continuity planning for cloud-hosted systems.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration between infrastructure, operations, security, application development, and business teams.
• Lead cloud readiness assessments and migration planning for legacy systems.
• Drive automation initiatives to reduce manual effort and improve deployment consistency.
• Participate in vendor evaluations and contract negotiations for cloud services and tools.
• Stay current with cloud computing innovations and industry trends, recommending adoption of new technologies.
• Continuously evaluate emerging Azure services and technologies to enhance platform capabilities.
• Work on cost optimization strategies and helps justify cloud investments.
• Provide real-time visibility into cloud consumption and design more efficient systems.
• Facilitate collaboration between technical and financial teams, ensuring cloud solutions are both effective and economical.

Required Qualifications of Every Candidate (Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities):

• Preferred Bachelor’s with 2+ years relevant experience or associate’s degree with 4+ years relevant experience or 6+ years relevant experience.
• 2+ years of experience in:
• Design, manage, and develop information systems.
• System analysis, documentation and designing technical specifications of the processes.
• Cloud service and tenant design and implementation.
• Proven leadership in enterprise cloud strategy, governance, and solution delivery.
• Strong proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code, scripting, and CI/CD tools.
• Designing and implementing automated configuration management, provisioning, and application deployment across hybrid environments.
• Develop migration plans, scripts, and automation tools to streamline repository transfers and configuration.
• Excellent knowledge in project methodologies like Agile, Scrum, Waterfall.
• Self-starter who demonstrates creativity in solving problems or generating improvement ideas and works well with team members.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively across an organization.
• Experience with multi-cloud strategy and vendor management.
• Lead the end-to-end migration of repositories, pipelines, and integrations from Bitbucket and other version control systems to GitHub Enterprise.
• Establish governance policies including branching strategies, pull request workflows, and code review standards.
• Work with project managers to ensure migration timelines and milestones are met.
• Communicate progress and risks to stakeholders and leadership.
• Track cloud usage and spending across platforms like Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• Identify underutilized resources and recommend cost-saving actions.
• Implement and manage role-based access control (RBAC), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and privileged access management.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and chargeback/show back models.
• Design and enforce identity federation and single sign-on (SSO) across cloud platforms.

Highly Qualified Candidates Will Also Possess These Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer sciences or MIS.
• Integration experience with:
• Microsoft Azure
• Microsoft Azure Dev/Ops
• GitHub Enterprise for source control and CI/CD workflows
• Infrastructure-as-Code platforms such as HashiCorp Terraform
• Infrastructure Provisioning and Configuration Management using Red Hat Ansible
• Bitbucket and other version control systems
• Apptio for financial transparency and operational insights into IT and cloud services
• DevSecops tools such as Synk to find and fix vulnerabilities in the code, open-source dependencies and infrastructure as code
• Evaluate, validate and manage multiple tools and extensions in both GITHUB and Azure Devops
• Cloud deployments (Azure, GCP, or AWS).
• Cloud development coding, services, and technologies.