Principal Data Platform Engineer

Sourceo Pte Ltd; Selangor; Hybrid; MYR 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Jora Malaysia is seeking an experienced platform engineer to own the DXP Data Platform across AWS, Snowflake, and SageMaker, guiding architecture, automation, and production readiness. You will work with a hybrid team of StarHub engineers and partners to deliver scalable data platform capabilities.

The role focuses on Day 2 operations, incident response, security compliance (IAM, KMS, PDPA/GDPR), cost governance, and observability using CloudWatch, Splunk, and dashboards, while advancing

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of cloud and platform engineering experience on AWS data platforms.
• Proven leadership of cross-functional engineering teams.
• Snowflake administration, RBAC, and warehouse optimization experience.
• CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation on EKS/Airflow.
• SageMaker multi-domain setup and MLOps experience.
• Monitoring and observability using CloudWatch, Splunk, and dashboards.
• Day 2 operations, incident response, and SRE practices.
• ITSec/compliance with IAM, KMS, PDPA/GDPR.

Responsibilities

• Own design and implementation of platform features across AWS, Snowflake, and SageMaker.
• Operate and optimize data platform components for reliability and performance.
• Lead rollout and production hardening of new platform components.
• Enforce security policies and coordinate vulnerability remediation.
• Develop design standards, IaC governance, and automation.
• Drive cost governance and utilization visibility across platforms.
• Mentor a hybrid team of engineers and vendors; ensure knowledge transfer.

Skills

AWS

Snowflake

SageMaker

EKS

Airflow

CI/CD

IaC

Monitoring

Security

Cost governance

Tools

CloudWatch

Splunk

PagerDuty

ServiceNow

KMS

Secrets Manager

Job description

Jora Malaysia will close on 9th September 2026. Thank you for being with us, we are cheering you on as you continue your career journey.

• Own AWS infrastructure for DXP Data Platform (multi-AZ, multi-VPC setup).
• Administer Snowflake environments, including user roles, RBAC, performance optimization, warehouse lifecycle, and cost controls.
• Operate DataPipes (EKS + Airflow) for ingestion orchestration, ensuring high availability and version-controlled configurations via IaC (CloudFormation/CDK).
• Maintain & enhance logging, monitoring, observability & DevOps automation via modern tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, PagerDuty, Slack, ServiceNow, Snowflake observability features.
• Design, prototype, and implement new platform features across AWS, Snowflake, and SageMaker to support innovation in data processing, analytics, and ML operations.
• Lead rollout and production hardening of new platform components (e.g., new Snowflake Cortex AI features, SageMaker pipelines, AWS-native services).
• Evaluate and integrate new services or capabilities aligned to StarHub’s data platform roadmap.
• Develop technical design standards and documentation for new features and automation processes.
• Implement Day 2 platform enhancements including auto-scaling, self-healing workflows, and CI/CD automation.
• Enhance EKS cluster performance, pipeline automation, and integration efficiency across cloud and on-prem data sources.
• Drive infrastructure-as-code (IaC) adoption for all environments and standardize rollout strategies (blue-green/canary).
• Governance, Security & Compliance:
• Enforce enterprise security policies for IAM, VPC isolation, PrivateLink, and encryption (KMS, Secrets Manager).
• Coordinate vulnerability remediation (EKS upgrades, CVE patching, EC2 AMI refresh, Docker image hardening).
• Ensure infrastructure audit readiness in partnership with Information Security (ITSec) and Compliance teams.
• Operations & Cost Management:
• Monitor and optimize Snowflake warehouse utilization, compute spend, and S3 data lifecycle management.
• Maintain tagging, dashboards, and cost visibility frameworks across AWS and Snowflake.
• Implement cost governance guardrails and usage quotas across platform components.
• Lead a blended team of StarHub engineers and partner vendors responsible for platform sustainment and evolution.
• Manage augmented vendor teams, ensuring consistent delivery quality and knowledge transfer to internal engineers.
• Build in-house capability in platform engineering, IaC, and automation disciplines.

Areas of Impact:

• Scope: DXP Data Platform infrastructure (AWS, Snowflake, SageMaker, Datapipe) supporting C360, AI/ML, and analytics workloads enterprise-wide.
• Decision Rights: Platform design approval, selection of new AWS/Snowflake/SageMaker capabilities, DevOps tooling and IaC framework choices, and vendor performance oversight.
• Stakeholders: Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Science, Architecture & Governance, Information Security, and Infrastructure teams.
• Resources: Hybrid team of ~2-4 engineers (StarHub and partner resources) managing infrastructure, platform automation, enhancements, and operations.

Ideal Track Record:

• 8-10 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.
• 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.
• Monitoring & Observability: CloudWatch, Splunk, Snowflake Account Usage, cost dashboards, PagerDuty, Slack, ServiceNow.
• Demonstrated success in prototyping, implementing, and scaling new cloud and data platform features into production.
• Experience managing Day 2 operations, incident response, and SRE-driven performance stabilization.
• Familiarity with machine learning integration and model lifecycle management.
• Experience enforcing ITSec and compliance standards (IAM, KMS, PDPA/GDPR).
• Proven success in transitioning platform operations from vendor-managed to in-house ownership.