DevOps & Release Engineer

Cloud Kinetics; Petaling Jaya; Hybrid; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloud Kinetics is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer/DevOps Lead to design and optimize CI/CD pipelines across hybrid environments. You will automate infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible, manage AWS deployments (containers, RDS, serverless, IAM), and champion SRE practices for high availability and DR.

You will coordinate with product, engineering, and operations to drive automation, scripting, and continuous improvement while ensuring security and governance across all

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on infrastructure engineering and DevOps in hybrid environments.
• Strong background in VMware, Linux/Wintel, storage and data centre admin.
• Cloud experience with AWS (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
• Extensive involvement in CI/CD pipeline development and IaC.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).
• Automation and scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Ability to collaborate with product and engineering teams on deployments.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and optimization of CI/CD pipelines for deployments.
• Drive automation using Terraform, Ansible, Atlantis across on-prem and cloud.
• Oversee deployments and operations on AWS, including containers, RDS, serverless, IAM, SSO.
• Champion SRE principles: HA, DR, monitoring, and alerting practices.
• Manage and integrate tools like GitLab, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, Slack, Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry.
• Ensure security and compliance across deployments per relevant standards.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and operations teams to drive automation and reliability.
• Provide technical leadership in customer-facing scenarios, especially in financial services.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, release governance, and decision-making frameworks.
• Explore cloud-native and AI-driven innovations to improve DevOps resilience.

Skills

Collaboration & communication

Troubleshooting

SRE principles

Automation mindset

DevOps culture

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

AWS

Kubernetes

GitLab

Bitbucket

Jira

Confluence

Grafana

Datadog

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Atlantis

Job description

• Pipeline & Release Management: Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of CI/CD pipelines for product and engineering deployments.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Drive automation using Terraform, Ansible, Atlantis, and related tooling to manage infrastructure across on-prem and cloud environments.
• Cloud & Hybrid Operations: Oversee deployments and operations across cloud computing platform (primarily AWS) including containers, RDS, serverless stacks, IAM, and SSO.
• Reliability Engineering: Champion SRE principles, ensuring high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), monitoring, and alerting practices.
• Toolchain Leadership: Manage and integrate tools such as GitLab, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, Slack, PagerDuty, Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.
• Security & Compliance: Ensure adherence to compliance frameworks, including financial regulations (e.g., Bank Negara RMIT), and enforce security standards across deployments.
• Collaboration & Leadership: Partner with product, engineering, and operations teams to drive automation, scripting, scheduling, and continuous improvement.
• Customer & Stakeholder Engagement: Provide technical leadership in customer-facing scenarios, especially within financial services environments.
• Documentation & Governance: Establish and maintain technical documentation, release governance, and decision-making frameworks.
• Cloud-Native & AI-Driven Innovations: Manage serverless and cloud-native services including Functions-as-a-Service (e.g., AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions), queuing and messaging systems (e.g., SQS, Kafka, Pub/Sub), and integrate AI-driven capabilities (predictive monitoring, intelligent automation, anomaly detection) to enhance DevOps efficiency and resilience.

Work Experience

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering, automation, and DevOps practices across hybrid environments (data center and cloud).
• Strong background in VMware stacks, Linux/Wintel systems, storage, and server administration within data centres.
• Practical experience in cloud computing platforms primarily AWS working on IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
• Extensive involvement in CI/CD pipeline development, release engineering, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry) in 24x7 operational environments.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with product and engineering teams on deployments, automation, and reliability improvements.
• Automation & Scripting: Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell) and automation frameworks.
• Monitoring & Observability: Expertise with Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, etc.
• Reliability & Resilience: Strong focus on scalability, DR, HA, and operational excellence in 24x7 environments.
• Collaboration & Communication: Skilled in cross-functional collaboration, documentation, and stakeholder communication.
• Compliance & Security Awareness: Knowledge of industry standards, regulatory requirements, and secure DevOps practices.