DevOps Engineer

Merchant Spring; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology-driven company in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a DevOps Engineer with 3–5 years of experience to enhance its microservices ecosystem. This role requires strong expertise in Kubernetes and AWS services, as well as a background in backend engineering. You will manage systems, develop self-healing strategies, and improve CI/CD pipelines while contributing to NodeJS application development. Join a collaborative environment where innovation and quality at the forefront of cloud infrastructure are cherished.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in DevOps or related role.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and AWS services.
• Experience building microservices architecture.

Responsibilities

• Manage Kubernetes systems hosting the Postgres Database.
• Enhance observability with Grafana and CloudWatch.
• Implement self-healing strategies across microservices.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines with automated test gates.
• Contribute to NodeJS backend application development.

Skills

Kubernetes experience

Node.js / Express / TypeScript / Python

AWS services expertise

Integration testing knowledge

Grafana dashboard building

Terraform and Docker skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

We’re looking for a DevOps Engineer with 3–5 years of experience to help us build highly observable, resilient, and testable systems across our microservices ecosystem. This is a hands‑on role for someone who enjoys working at the boundary of development and operations

You’ll be diving into a system with hundreds of microservices, helping us identify weak spots, build self‑healing mechanisms, and level up our observability and quality assurance efforts.

Responsibilities

• Manage our Kubernetes systems that hosts the Postgres Database
• Enhance our observability systems using tools like Grafana and CloudWatch to enable real‑time monitoring, alerting, and diagnosis
• Analyze our microservices landscape to identify and implement self‑healing strategies
• Improve early vulnerability detection mechanisms by employing security gates in the code pipeline
• Design and enforce robust health checks for services and background jobs
• Improve and manage logging, tracing, and alerting pipelines
• Build infrastructure using Terraform and deploy containerized services with Docker on AWS ECS
• Use core AWS services (ECS, EKS, EC2, IAM, S3, SQS, CloudTrail) to manage and scale cloud workloads
• Improve CI/CD pipelines to include observability hooks and automated test gates
• Contribute to NodeJS based backend application development

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)

Certifications

• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (or similar)
• AWS Solution Architect Professional

Skills & Experience

• STRONG Kubernetes experience (beyond basic setup and management)
• 3–5 years in full‑stack or backend engineering (Node.js / Express / TypeScript / Python)
• Strong experience with AWS services: ECS, EKS, EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, CloudTrail
• Solid knowledge of integration testing, health checks, and service readiness probes
• Proficient in building and using Grafana dashboards and integrating observability tools
• Hands‑on with Terraform, Docker, and cloud‑native infrastructure