Principal Data Platform Engineer

HackerTrail; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 240,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

StarHub is seeking a Principal Data Platform Engineer to lead and scale the DXP Data Platform. The role focuses on reliability, security, automation, and performance across AWS, Snowflake, and SageMaker environments, with a blended team of internal engineers and vendor resources.

You will drive platform maturity and Day 2 operations. The ideal candidate has 6–10 years in cloud/platform engineering, strong leadership, and hands-on experience with AWS services, Snowflake DB, SageMaker, and DevOps

Qualifications

• 6–10 years in cloud/platform engineering.
• Experience with multi-environment data platforms (DEV/SIT/PROD).
• Proven leadership of cross-functional teams.
• Hands-on AWS, Snowflake, SageMaker and Datapipe expertise.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end infrastructure and platform operations on AWS, Snowflake and SageMaker.
• Lead design, build and automation of data platform engineering and DevOps.
• Drive monitoring, cost optimization and performance tuning.
• Manage a hybrid team of internal engineers and vendor resources.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Platform engineering

Cloud automation

Tools

AWS

Snowflake

SageMaker

EKS

Datapipe

CI/CD

CloudFormation/CDK

CloudWatch

Job description

About the role

Principal Data Platform Engineer Role Mission: To lead and scale the Data Platform Engineering and Operations function within StarHub’s Digital Experience Platform (DXP) Data organization. This role ensures the continuous reliability, scalability, and security of StarHub’s C360 cloud data platform built on AWS, Snowflake, SageMaker, and Datapipe. The incumbent drives operational excellence, automation, and engineering maturity across the platform, while prototyping and rolling out new platform capabilities that enable agility, innovation, and performance for data and AI workloads across the enterprise. Lead a blended team of StarHub engineers and partner vendors responsible for platform sustainment and evolution. Partner with Data Engineering, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure & Tooling teams to ensure aligned technical roadmaps, compliance readiness, and audit traceability. Responsibilities Own end-to-end infrastructure and platform operations of the DXP Data Platform across AWS, Snowflake, and SageMaker environments (DEV , SIT, PROD). Lead the design, build, and automation of data platform engineering and DevOps practices, ensuring continuous improvement and zero-downtime operations. Lead the prototyping, implementation, and rollout of new platform capabilities and services across AWS, Snowflake, and SageMaker. Drive operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, cost optimization, and performance tuning. Manage a hybrid team of internal platform engineers and vendor-augmented resources supporting Day 2 operations and enhancements.

What you'll bring

Ideal Track Record 6-10 years of experience in cloud and platform engineering, with extensive experience on AWS-based data platforms. Proven leadership of cross-functional engineering teams managing production-grade, multi-environment platforms. Hands-on expertise in AWS Services: VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, KMS, CloudFormation/CDK, Transfer Family, CloudWatch, CloudTrail. Snowflake: administration, RBAC, warehouse optimization, DevOps automation, Cortex AI, and Streamlit integration. EKS / Airflow / Airbyte (Datapipe): container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation. SageMaker: multi-domain setup, pipeline management, Studio/Canvas lifecycle, and MLOps enablement. Experience managing Day 2 operations, incident response, and SRE-driven performance stabilization.

Benefits and perks

Benefits