Senior AWS DevOps Engineer - Cloud Reliability & Automation

Trapeze Group AMEA - ASEAN, Middle East, Africa; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Trapeze Group AMEA - ASEAN, Middle East, Africa is seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to own cloud infrastructure, automation, deployments, monitoring, security and reliability across development, test, staging and production environments. You will collaborate with Engineering, Support, Professional Services, customer IT teams and partners to keep platforms secure, resilient and cost‑effective.

The role requires hands‑on experience in AWS, IaC, CI/CD, Linux, scripting and strong

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of relevant experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering or Systems Engineering.
• At least 3 years of hands-on AWS production experience.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly Terraform and/or AWS CDK/CloudFormation.
• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows.
• Solid Linux administration and scripting/automation skills.
• Good understanding of AWS networking, IAM, and security fundamentals.
• Experience with Docker and preferably ECS and/or EKS.
• Experience supporting production environments, troubleshooting incidents, and conducting root‑cause analysis.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work independently and with customer IT teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain AWS infrastructure supporting production applications using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK and/or CloudFormation).
• Deploy, upgrade and patch application environments across development, test, staging and production.
• Manage AWS services including EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, Route 53, ELB, IAM, CloudWatch, Systems Manager and Backup.
• Build and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, ShipHat, and related tooling.
• Automate application deployments, infrastructure provisioning and operational processes.
• Maintain Git‑based source control and release workflows.
• Use scripting and automation with Bash, PowerShell and/or Python.
• Implement monitoring, logging and alerting for application and infrastructure health, capacity and performance.
• Respond to production incidents within agreed SLAs, perform root‑cause analysis and drive permanent corrective actions.
• Manage backup, restore and disaster recovery processes and participate in regular DR testing.
• Maintain security and compliance through patching, vulnerability remediation, least‑privilege IAM, encryption, certificate management and security‑group hygiene.
• Monitor AWS consumption and identify opportunities for rightsizing, reserved capacity, and architectural cost optimization.
• Work with Engineering, Support, Professional Services, customer IT teams and third‑party vendors to coordinate deployments, integrations, change windows and issue resolution.
• Support production environments and customers across the ASEAN region and multiple time zones.
• Contribute to ITIL‑based incident, change and configuration management.
• Maintain technical documentation, runbooks and as‑built environment records.
• Participate in an on‑call rotation and scheduled after‑hours maintenance windows as required.
• Identify and deliver continuous service improvements in automation, reliability, and operational efficiency.

Skills

DevOps experience

Cloud engineering

Systems engineering

AWS production experience

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Git workflows

Linux administration

Scripting/automation

AWS networking

Security fundamentals

Docker

ECS/EKS

CI/CD tooling

Python/PowerShell/Bash

Education

Tertiary qualification in Computer Science/Information Technology/Engineering or related discipline

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Git

CodePipeline

CodeBuild

ShipHat

Docker

ECS

EKS

CloudWatch

Grafana

Datadog

Nagios

PowerShell

Python

Bash

Job description

Trapeze Group AMEA - ASEAN, Middle East, Africa is seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to own cloud infrastructure, automation, deployments, monitoring, security and reliability across development, test, staging and production environments. You will collaborate with Engineering, Support, Professional Services, customer IT teams and partners to keep platforms secure, resilient and cost‑effective.

The role requires hands‑on experience in AWS, IaC, CI/CD, Linux, scripting and strong