DevOps Engineer

Blue Ripples Technologies; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to design and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, deploy Kubernetes clusters, and build CI/CD pipelines. The ideal candidate has strong expertise with Kubernetes and CI/CD tools, as well as experience in managing Kafka-centric platforms. This role offers a collaborative environment with opportunities for professional growth and benefits including medical insurance and training.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits

Opportunities for professional growth

Collaborative work environment

Medical insurance

Training (Technical & Soft skills)

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Terraform reusable modules and environments.
• Expertise in Kubernetes (EKS and on-prem clusters).
• Apache Kafka operations and tuning.
• CI/CD tools: GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD.
• Helm for Kubernetes deployments.
• Linux system administration and networking.
• Managing stateful workloads on Kubernetes.
• TLS, certificates, secrets management.
• Bash/Shell scripting (Python is a plus).

Responsibilities

• Design and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for AWS and on-prem infrastructure.
• Deploy and operate Kubernetes clusters on AWS and on-prem.
• Deploy and manage Kafka-centric event streaming platforms.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI and Jenkins.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Secure infrastructure using TLS and secrets management.
• Collaborate with backend and frontend teams.

Skills

Terraform reusable modules

Kubernetes (EKS and on-prem)

Apache Kafka operations

CI/CD tools (GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD)

Helm for Kubernetes deployments

Linux system administration

Bash/Shell scripting

Job description

Responsibilities

• Design and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for AWS (VPC, EKS, EC2, ALB/NLB, IAM, storage) and on-prem infrastructure (VMs, networking, load balancers)
• Deploy and operate Kubernetes clusters on AWS and on-prem
• Deploy and manage Kafka‑centric event streaming platforms and core platform components (Kafka, MQTT brokers, Keycloak, APISIX, Redis, PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB, MinIO)
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD and Helm for application platform deployments
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch) and ensure high availability, scalability, security and disaster recovery
• Secure infrastructure using TLS, certificates, RBAC, secrets management (Vault/OpenBao)
• Collaborate with backend (.NET) and frontend (Angular) teams

Requirements

• Strong experience with Terraform reusable modules and environments
• Expertise in Kubernetes (EKS and on‑prem clusters)
• Apache Kafka operations and tuning
• CI/CD tools: GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD
• Helm for Kubernetes deployments
• Linux system administration and networking
• Managing stateful workloads on Kubernetes
• TLS, certificates, secrets management
• Bash/Shell scripting (Python is a plus)

Good to Have

• Hybrid AWS + on‑prem architecture experience
• VerneMQ operations
• Keycloak deployment & scaling
• MinIO / S3‑compatible object storage
• OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing
• Experience with high‑throughput IoT or streaming systems

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Opportunities for high‑speed professional growth and development
• Collaborative and supportive work environment
• Medical insurance
• OP Allowance
• Statutory Benefits like PF, ESI, LWF, Gratuity
• Training (Technical & Soft skills)