DevOps & App Engineer: Kubernetes, CI/CD, Cloud

Starhub Ltd; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

The DevOps & Application Engineer at StarHub Ltd will design, automate, and optimize the build-and-release ecosystem while ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of StarHub’s cloud-native platforms. They will manage Kubernetes operations, infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and GitOps workflows, while contributing production-grade application code across multiple languages.

This role accelerates engineering velocity by driving DevOps best practices.

Qualifications

• Experience with DevOps practices and trunk-based development.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins preferred).
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Shell, Python, Groovy).
• Hands-on Kubernetes operations across multi-cluster environments (EKS, OpenShift).
• Proficiency with GitOps workflows (Argo CD or Flux).
• Proficient in AWS provisioning (EKS, RDS/PostgreSQL, EC2, S3).
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Ability to contribute production-grade code (Python, Go, or TypeScript).
• Experience with observability tools (Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch).
• Knowledge transfer and documentation skills; maintain developer portals (Backstage).

Responsibilities

• Define and enforce DevOps policies with emphasis on trunk-based development and CI gates.
• Design, develop, and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins (Pipeline-as-Code).
• Write build scripts and tooling to automate the software delivery lifecycle.
• Administer multi-cluster Kubernetes environments including RBAC and autoscaling.
• Implement GitOps workflows (Argo CD or Flux) for reproducible deployments.
• Provision and manage AWS resources (EKS, RDS, EC2, S3, IAM).
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Contribute application code in Python, Go, or TypeScript and participate in design reviews.
• Establish observability with Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch; manage incident workflows (PagerDuty).
• Author technical docs and provide knowledge transfer to internal teams.
• Maintain Internal Developer Portal - Backstage.

Skills

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitOps

AWS

Python

Go

TypeScript

Shell scripting

Groovy

Jenkins

Argo CD

Flux

Terraform

CloudFormation

Observability

Backstage

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

PagerDuty

Tools

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

CloudFormation

Argo CD

Flux

AWS

RDS/PostgreSQL

EKS

OpenShift

Backstage

Splunk

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

PagerDuty

Python

Go

TypeScript

Shell scripting

Groovy

Job description

The DevOps & Application Engineer at StarHub Ltd will design, automate, and optimize the build-and-release ecosystem while ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of StarHub’s cloud-native platforms. They will manage Kubernetes operations, infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and GitOps workflows, while contributing production-grade application code across multiple languages.

This role accelerates engineering velocity by driving DevOps best practices.