Linux Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

OCBC Group; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Holistic benefits

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

OCBC Bank is seeking an experienced Linux Systems Engineer to join the Infrastructure as a Service team in Cyberjaya. Responsibilities include designing a reliable Red Hat Linux platform, reducing incidents, and raising service quality through SRE practices.

You will work across engineering and operations to ensure secure, scalable systems. Ideal candidates will have 6+ years on Red Hat Linux, hands-on with Terraform or CloudFormation, Ansible, and cloud-native infra.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in IT, CS or related field.
• 6+ years of Red Hat Linux experience.
• Install, patch and upgrade UNIX servers.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver a reliable, scalable Red Hat Linux platform.
• Drive 24/7 on-call rotations and improve service quality using SRE practices.
• Eliminate toil, improve observability and monitoring, and manage deployments.
• Collaborate with vendors and internal teams to secure infrastructure.

Skills

Red Hat Linux

SRE practices

APIs development

Coding (Python/Java/C/C++)

Cloud familiarity (AWS/Azure)

IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation)

Configuration management (Ansible/Pupp

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Job description

WHO WE ARE

As Singapore’s longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. How? By taking the time to truly understand people. From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires. Today, we’re on a journey of transformation. Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation. But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia’s leading financial services partner for a sustainable future. We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver financial services. Work in friendly, supportive teams. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career. Your Opportunity Starts Here.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The successful candidate will be part of OCBC Bank Infrastructure as a Service team based in Cyberjaya. This role will involve significant focus on process improvements, incident reduction and service quality improvements.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• You partner with various technology teams to design and deliver a reliable, scalable, secure, and performant Red Hat Linux Platform.
• You stay current on technical trends to suggest innovative tools and approaches to interesting problems in the Bank.
• You share your expertise with the entire Engineering /Operations organization.
• You participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation and drive improvements using SRE practices.
• You actively participate in toil elimination, observability and monitoring improvements, knowledge management, error budget compliance, deployment designs and testing.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent experience in Information Technology, Computer Science or Business Management.
• Have a relevant experience of above 6 years on Red Hat Linux Platform.
• Install, Maintain, Upgrade and Patch UNIX servers in the organization.
• Troubleshoot and fix system and software/hardware issues.
• Support and maintain High Availability of system using clustering software.
• Secure the systems by following published hardening guidelines.
• Assist in audit and compliance tasks.
• Perform Disaster Recovery activities.
• A passion for problem solving with strong analytical capabilities.
• Demonstrable web development experience, ability to write APIs.
• Know at least one of {Python, Ruby, Java, C++, C#, Go} at an intermediate level.
• Experience with Querying relational databases, and NoSQL databases.
• Experience in automating releases, continuous integration/delivery systems and relevant tools in infrastructure.
• Experience / understanding of Software Defined Data Centre, AWS/Azure-based, cloud-native infrastructure and managed services, such as, EC2, S3 and other storage options, VPCs, IAM.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Knowledge of configuration management systems like SCCM, Ansible, Puppet, Chef.

KNOWLEDGE, SOFT SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Excellent communications skills, with the ability to explain complex technological ideas and concepts in a way that is understandable to a non-technical audience.
• Must display excellent teamwork skills, written and oral communication skills, and formal documentation skills.
• Exceptional information sharing skills with sense of responsibility, attention to detail.
• Proactive Incident management with situational analysis and decision-making abilities.
• Ability to work independently and with little guidance while keeping the focus.
• Extensive experience, collaborating with vendors, professional services, and providers.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Competitive base salary.
• A suite of holistic, flexible benefits to suit every lifestyle.
• Community initiatives.
• Industry-leading learning and professional development opportunities.
• Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers.

As the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932 from the merger of three local banks, we have grown from strength to strength to become a regional financial services group. With a deep history in Asia, we offer the most comprehensive coverage across ASEAN and Greater China, complemented with a presence in the leading economies of New York, London and Sydney. We are the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets with one of the world’s highest credit rating (Aa1 by Moody’s and AA- by both Fitch and S&P). We offer private banking services through our wholly-owned subsidiary, Bank of Singapore, which operates on a unique open-architecture product platform to source for the best-in-class products to meet its clients’ goals. Our insurance subsidiary, Great Eastern Holdings, is the oldest and most established life insurance group in Singapore and Malaysia.

Let’s build the bank we need for the future we want. Find the best version of yourself in a friendly, supportive team. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career. Your Opportunity Starts Here.