IT Platform Engineer

ExxonMobil; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

ExxonMobil’s information technology platform team in Malaysia is seeking an IT Platform Engineer - Advanced to provide engineering and operational support for platform technologies. The role focuses on building and managing infrastructure and tools used by capability teams to deploy applications, delivering stable, scalable, and self‑service platforms.

Responsibilities include automation, security, and global system integration.

Qualifications

• Experience in engineering and operational support for IT platform technologies.
• Ability to deploy and configure cloud services and governance controls.
• Familiarity with automation, IaC, and observability to improve reliability.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and configure cloud services, apply governance and security controls, optimize resources for cost efficiency.
• Perform full Platform lifecycle administration, performance tuning, root‑cause analysis.
• Build and improve virtualized environments and support storage/virtualization platform upgrades.
• Maintain platform resiliency and contribute to disaster recovery readiness.
• Create automation scripts and deployment workflows to improve consistency and scalability.
• Analyze observability data to identify trends and address performance issues.

Skills

Cloud services

Automation scripts

Security & compliance

Observability

Tools

IaC templates

AI services

Virtualized environments

Job description

About Us

For well over a century, ExxonMobil has been at the heart of creating and growing a modern world. We embrace the power and promise of technology, pushing the boundaries of what's possible. For billions around the world, lives are better and last longer because of the innovative problem solving and reliable energy we provide. And when it comes to developing industrial solutions to reduce carbon emissions, ExxonMobil is truly the leader.

We don't stop at \"good enough.\" We are committed to doing what's right, even if it's difficult or unpopular. We hold ourselves to high standards, challenge what's possible and invest in innovation to meet society's critical needs.

Real change begins with bold questions, drive, and ambition. Here, your talent, determination and contributions shape how far you'll go and the impact you'll make along the way.

Our future success depends on exceptional people. We invest in developing talent through meaningful work, challenging assignments, mentorship, and experiences that help build the next generation of leaders.

Our Culture

We are uniquely ExxonMobil. Integrity, care, excellence, resilience and courage, these core values determine how we work every day. At ExxonMobil, our values aren't just words— they're how we show up, focused on delivering the right answer, the right way, every day.

ExxonMobil in Malaysia

In Malaysia, we host a global business and technology center in Kuala Lumpur that provides high-level information technology and engineering expertise to ExxonMobil’s Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses worldwide. In the upstream, we have interests in two Production Sharing Contracts with PETRONAS, while in the Product Solutions business, we supply a portfolio of specialty chemical products to the marketplace.

Job Group Capability

Information Technology

Job Group

Compute & Application Platform

Job Role Description

The IT Platform Engineer - Advanced is responsible for providing engineering and operational support for IT platform technologies to address business needs and apply new IT solutions. This role focuses on creating and managing the infrastructure and tools that business capability teams use to build and deploy applications. The goal is to provide stable, scalable, and self-service platforms, allowing teams to concentrate on application deployment without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. This involves, but is not limited to, automating tasks, providing reusable components, ensuring infrastructure and data resilience, enhancing observability, and ensuring security and compliance.

This is a broad role that will have very specialized knowledge but will allow experience on a broader environment. The engineer will lead projects, begins to mentor others and ensures the effective integration and support of global IT systems.

Job Role Responsibilities

• Deploy and configure cloud services, apply governance and security controls, optimize resource usage to achieve higher cost efficiency, and ensure environments comply with enterprise standards.


• Perform full Platform lifecycle administration, performance tuning, and root‑cause analysis


• Build and improve virtualized environments, manage capacity, optimize performance, and support upgrades and expansions of storage and virtualization platforms


• Maintain and enhance Platform resiliency design, support recovery operations, and contribute to improving disaster recovery readiness


• Deploy updates, configure platform components, troubleshoot platform‑level issues, and ensure application environments remain stable and well‑supported also perform lifecycle administration, performance tuning, and root‑cause analysis


• Create and enhance automation scripts, IaC templates, AI services, and deployment workflows to improve consistency, reduce manual work, and support platform scalability


• Analyze observability data, identify trends, and proactively address performance or reliability issues across infrastructure and application platforms


• Perform advanced administration tasks, such as system refreshes, change management, performance troubleshooting, and cross‑platform integration support


• Help define security best practices and document procedures to avoid security incidents


• Assist on writing documented processes for incident / change management, service requests, etc.

Functional Skills

Hosting Compute Design Engineering & Implementation

Infrastructure & Platform Programming & Automation

Infrastructure - Operating Systems

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