DevOps Engineer - Contractor

CoinMarketCap; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cryptocurrency data aggregator in Kuala Lumpur seeks a skilled DevOps Engineer to design and optimize cloud infrastructure on AWS. This role requires expertise in CI/CD pipeline development, automation programming, and cloud operations, with at least 3 years of relevant experience. The ideal candidate will be proficient in AWS services, Terraform for Infrastructure as Code, and possess strong automation skills. Candidates should exhibit excellent communication and problem-solving abilities. Competitive compensation package offered.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Cloud Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Proficient with AWS: hands-on experience with core services.
• Experience building monitoring stacks such as Prometheus and Grafana.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize cloud architectures on AWS.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines to improve release frequency and quality.
• Automate with tools like Ansible and Terraform for operational efficiency.

Skills

Cloud Infrastructure Design

CI/CD Pipeline Development

Operations Automation

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

CDN Operations

Monitoring and Alerting

Strong communication

Problem analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Telecommunications

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab CI

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK/Loki

Job description

Responsibilities

• Cloud Infrastructure Design & Operations: Design, build, and optimize highly available and secure cloud architectures on AWS
• CI/CD Pipeline Development: Design and maintain end-to-end pipelines from code commit to deployment — including build, test, artifact management, release, and rollback — to improve release frequency and quality
• Operations Automation: Reduce manual toil through programming and automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, custom scripts/platforms) to automate configuration management, change execution, and incident response
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Manage AWS cloud resources and network configurations using Terraform to ensure environment consistency, auditability, and reproducibility
• CDN Operations: Configure, monitor, tune, and troubleshoot AWS CDN services to ensure acceleration and availability of static assets and streaming media
• Monitoring, Alerting & Observability: Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing systems to enable rapid issue identification and drive capacity and performance optimization

Requirements

• Education & Experience:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related field
  • 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Cloud Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering
• Cloud Platform:
  • Proficient with AWS: hands-on experience with core services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS/ECS
  • Solid understanding of cloud-native principles; familiar with containers (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes or AWS EKS managed service), service mesh, and serverless technologies
• CI/CD:
  • Proficient in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)
  • Familiar with pipeline design principles: multi-environment management, branching strategies, artifact management, blue‑green/canary deployments, and rollback mechanisms
• Observability:
  • Experience building and optimizing monitoring stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Loki
• Operations Automation & Programming:
  • Strong automation programming skills: proficient in at least one scripting/programming language (e.g., Shell, Python, Go) for writing automation scripts and tools
  • Able to design automation solutions for operational scenarios and integrate with existing monitoring, ticketing, and configuration management systems
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
  • Proficient with Terraform: able to manage AWS resources with modular design and proven hands‑on experience
  • Familiarity with Ansible for configuration management and batch operations (e.g., system initialization, application deployment, configuration distribution)
• CDN Operations:
  • Hands‑on CDN operations experience: familiar with AWS CloudFront configuration, caching strategies, domain and certificate management
  • Able to perform bandwidth/traffic and cost analysis, origin optimization, troubleshooting, and SLA assurance
• Soft Skills:
  • Strong documentation habits, communication, collaboration, and ability to drive initiatives across teams
  • Solid problem analysis and post‑mortem skills; able to participate in or lead root cause analysis and drive improvement actions