Senior Cloud Engineer

Singtel; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Singtel in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to ensure reliability and operational excellence of cloud platforms powering mission-critical telco services. You will operate and maintain production cloud environments across AWS and Azure, participate in on-call rotations, and drive incident resolution with cross-functional teams.

The ideal candidate brings 3–6 years of cloud operations experience, strong scripting/automation skills, and hands-on IAM, networking, and security

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 3–6 years of cloud operations or infrastructure experience.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP; cloud networking and IAM.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain production cloud platforms across AWS and Azure.
• Lead incident response and drive service restoration within SLAs.
• Improve operational resilience through automation and IaC.

Skills

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Infrastructure-as-Code

Automation

Incident management

Scripting

Security IAM

On-call operations

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Be a part of something BIG!

Say HELLO to BIG Possibilities with Singtel!
Singtel is Asia's leading communications technology group, driven by innovation, digital transformation and the use of technology to create a more sustainable and connected future.

Be a part of something BIG!
Say HELLO to BIG Possibilities with Singtel!
Singtel is Asia's leading communications technology group, driven by innovation, digital transformation and the use of technology to create a more sustainable and connected future.
We are looking for a dedicated and highly motivated Senior Cloud Engineer to join our team. This role is responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and operational excellence of cloud platforms supporting mission-critical telco services. The ideal candidate will bring strong hands-on cloud operations experience, sound incident-management judgement, and the ability to improve operational resilience through automation and continuous improvement.
Make an Impact by
Operate and maintain production cloud platforms across AWS and Azure to meet availability, performance, and operational-readiness targets for 24x7 support.
Participate in scheduled on-call rotations and lead high-severity or complex cloud incidents, driving service restoration within agreed SLAs and MTTR targets.
Coordinate incident response across cloud, network, security, and application teams, ensuring clear and timely stakeholder communication throughout recovery.
Perform root cause analysis, implement corrective and preventive actions, and reduce incident recurrence through structured problem and change management.
Improve operational resilience through automation, self-healing, alert optimization, Infrastructure-as-Code, and continuous improvement of runbooks and operational documentation.
Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve complex cloud platform issues using logs, metrics, alerts, and relevant monitoring, logging, and alerting tools.
Ensure cloud operations comply with security, regulatory, governance, and change controls, including supporting audits, vulnerability remediation, IAM, and operational risk management.
Provide on-call guidance and escalation support to junior engineers, and share operational best practices and lessons learned across teams.
Assess and escape major risks, outages, policy exceptions, architecture deviations, and high-risk or non-standard changes to the appropriate authority.
Skills For Success
Bachelor’s degree in IT, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience, with 3–6 years of relevant cloud operations or infrastructure experience.
Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP; cloud networking, security and IAM; ITSM and on-call operations; and scripting or automation. Infrastructure-as-Code, Kubernetes/container experience, telco or regulated-environment experience, and relevant professional certifications are advantageous.
Strong communication, collaboration, presentation, and operational documentation skills.