Lead SRE for Sovereign AI Platform

YTL AI Labs; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

YTL AI Labs seeks a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, platform security, and scalable AI workloads. You will guide a small team, lead incident responses, and own platform security workstreams, applying IaC, CI/CD, and robust observability across services.

You will collaborate with product teams, set reliability standards, and ensure secure, compliant operations for sovereign AI infrastructure in a fast‑moving environment.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years in software or infrastructure engineering, with senior SRE or tech lead experience.
• Proven ability to lead a small engineering team and direct day‑to‑day work.
• Track record of improving reliability, operability, and incident response for distributed systems.
• Hands‑on security practices: cloud hardening, vulnerability mgmt, IAM, secrets.
• Strong knowledge of cloud infra, Kubernetes, networking, identity, and security fundamentals.
• Proficiency in Python or Go and building internal tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small group of engineers across site reliability and platform security, setting priorities, providing direction, and mentoring staff.
• Lead incident response for services within scope and drive blameless post‑mortem reviews.
• Own platform security workstream, including vulnerability management, container hardening, network policy, and monitoring.
• Implement secure identity, access, and secrets management, and coordinate incident response.
• Maintain reliability of critical services by defining and tracking SLOs, error budgets, and alerts.
• Improve observability with metrics, logs, tracing, and synthetic monitoring.
• Design multi‑tenant, sovereign deployment topologies with regulatory compliance.
• Advance infrastructure‑as‑code, CI/CD, and auditable delivery patterns.
• Develop tooling that reduces MTTD/MTTR and informs capacity planning.
• Collaborate with product/solutions teams on reliability during design and changes.

Skills

SRE leadership

Incident response

Platform security

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Automation tooling

Education

CS/Software Eng degree or equivalent

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

IaC (infrastructure as code)

Observability tooling

Job description

YTL AI Labs seeks a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, platform security, and scalable AI workloads. You will guide a small team, lead incident responses, and own platform security workstreams, applying IaC, CI/CD, and robust observability across services.

You will collaborate with product teams, set reliability standards, and ensure secure, compliant operations for sovereign AI infrastructure in a fast‑moving environment.