Platform Engineer

AS White Global; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 59,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangement

Job summary

AS White Global in Manila is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to maintain secure, reliable systems and design scalable architectures for internal and external customers. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver highly available platforms and automated, containerised workloads using IaC and modern CD tooling.

You will drive continuous improvements in performance, cost-efficiency, and developer experience, while mentoring junior engineers and participating in on-call rotations

Qualifications

• Expert Linux system administration in distributed production environments.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience (on-prem/upstream) with multi-cluster setups.
• Advanced IaC using Terraform, Ansible and Helm for scalable deployments.
• GitOps tooling with ArgoCD and Flux for CD workflows at scale.
• Deep knowledge of container networking (BGP, Load Balancing, Ingress).
• Strong observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger).
• Proficient in Go or Python scripting; interest in CNCF/OCI standards.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the security, reliability, and availability of client systems.
• Design and evolve platform architecture for scalable, observable, secure solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver business outcomes.
• Deliver highly available, scalable platforms to support growth and initiatives.
• Build on-premises containerised workloads with IaC and CI/CD pipelines.
• Provide platform capabilities and environments to accelerate delivery.
• Champion reliability practices including monitoring, alerts, and post-incident reviews.
• Contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing across the team.
• Mentor junior engineers and participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Linux administration

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

GitOps CI/CD

Networking concepts

Observability stacks

Go/Python scripting

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or related

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

ArgoCD

Flux

Prometheus

Grafana

Jaeger

OpenTelemetry

Job description

The Opportunity

If you are looking to join an Australian Telco company recognized as Australia’s most trusted Telco that upholds value and focus on continuously delivering excellent results and customer experience, then this is for you!

Why join us?

• Proudly Great Place to Work® certified
• Celebrate globally: Company trips (2025: Hong Kong, 2024: Thailand), Culture Champs, Year-end parties, leadership awards & more
• Grow with stability: 100+ in our 10-Year Club by 2025
• Dynamic talent network: 2,000+ across APAC and beyond
• Competitive compensation with annual reviews
• Comprehensive medical care for you and your family
• Generous paid leave because work-life balance matters
• Level up with LinkedIn Learning and tailored training
• Flexible work setup

Staff Testimonial

“I’m proud to be part of a team where our work supports hundreds of thousands of Australians with reliable connectivity every day — and where quality service and customer trust truly matter.” – Delivery Lead, ASW Philippines.

What You’ll Do

• Maintain the security, reliability, and availability of client’s critical systems infrastructure.
• Design and evolve platform architecture to deliver scalable, observable and secure solutions for internal and external customers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across a broad range of experience and skills to deliver business outcomes.
• Deliver highly available, scalable and resilient platforms and services to support business growth and initiatives.
• Build, automate and enhance on-premises containerised & virtualised workloads, with a strong focus on infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Support development teams by providing platform capabilities, tooling and environments that accelerate delivery.
• Champion reliability practices, including monitoring, alerting, incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Continuously improve platform performance, cost-efficiency and developer experience through proactive engineering and feedback loops.
• Contribute to technical documentation, standards and knowledge sharing across the engineering organisation.
• Act as an escalation point and provide technical guidance and support to other members of the systems team, helping resolve complex issues and drive continuous improvement.
• Mentor and help develop junior team members through coaching, knowledge sharing, and technical training.
• Act as an escalation point and provide technical guidance, mentoring, and training to other members of the systems team, helping resolve complex issues and grow team capability.
• Take ownership of delivering assigned projects and business outcomes end-to-end, applying established architectural and design patterns with minimal oversight.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure platform reliability and rapid response to critical incidents.

Key Criteria

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Expert Linux system administration with proven experience operating highly available, distributed production systems in a Telco environment.
• Hands-on Kubernetes expertise (on-prem/upstream), including cluster lifecycle management, performance tuning, service mesh (Istio, Linkerd), and multi-cluster architectures.
• Advanced Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm) and GitOps CI/CD tooling (ArgoCD, Flux) for continuous delivery at scale.
• Deep knowledge of containerized and virtualized networking concepts (BGP, Load Balancing, Ingress/Egress, eBPF/XDP, VPP).
• Security-first design mindset (encryption, segmentation, compliance) alongside full observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger).
• Proficiency in Go or Python for scripting, with a strong passion for CNCF/OCI open-source standards and continuous improvement.

Work setup:

• Manila (BGC, Taguig): Australian hours (6:00am–3:00pm PHT) with a flexible work arrangement.