Senior Cloud Engineer: Lead Multi-Cloud & Automation

Valmont Industries; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Valmont Industries Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to join on-site and lead cloud design across Azure, AWS, and GCP. This on-site role focuses on scalable, secure architectures, cost optimization, governance, and migration planning for legacy systems.

You will mentor technical teams, establish CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, and drive best practices in infrastructure as code, security, and incident resolution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher with 4+ years relevant experience, or associate’s degree with 6+ years relevant experience, or 8+ years total experience.
• 4+ years of experience in design, manage, and develop information systems.
• Cloud service and tenant design and implementation.
• Proven leadership in enterprise cloud strategy, governance, and solution delivery.
• Strong proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code, scripting, and CI/CD tools.
• Designing and implementing automated configuration management, provisioning, and application deployment across hybrid environments.
• Develop migration plans, scripts, and automation tools to streamline repository transfers and configuration.
• Experience with multi-cloud strategy and vendor management.
• Lead end-to-end migration of repositories, pipelines, and integrations from Bitbucket and other version control systems to GitHub Enterprise.
• Establish governance policies including branching strategies, pull request workflows, and code review standards.
• Work with project managers to ensure migration timelines and milestones are met.
• Track cloud usage and spending across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• Identify underutilized resources and cost-saving actions.
• Implement and manage RBAC, MFA and privileged access management.
• Design and enforce identity federation and single sign-on (SSO) across cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and train technical teams and peers on cloud technologies and best practices, including optimized design, automation, and deploying code using industry best practices and Valmont standards.
• Design, coordinate, direct, and curate complex systems involving multiple platforms and technologies, ensuring scalability, security, and performance.
• Research and evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and tools to continuously improve Valmont’s cloud architecture and development practices.
• Oversee cloud operations and governance across all Valmont tenants and vendors including Azure, AWS, and GCP, ensuring compliance, security, and cost optimization.
• Establish and maintain standards for Source Control repositories and development tools across Valmont’s global enterprise.
• Architect and manage systems that enable development teams to build, test, and deploy code using CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices.
• Lead prioritization and delivery of system enhancements, ensuring timely and high-quality releases.
• Provide technical leadership in resolving complex problems and incidents across cloud environments.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand functional requirements and advise on optimal cloud-native or hybrid solutions.
• Translate business needs into technical requirements and guide development teams on necessary customizations.
• Evangelize cloud software development best practices across all business units, fostering consistency and innovation.
• Document and validate requirements in partnership with business users and sponsors.
• Align cloud strategy with Valmont’s strategic business drivers to support growth and innovation.
• Assess risks and proactively inform stakeholders of potential impacts to timelines or scope.
• Create and maintain technical specifications, architecture diagrams, and operational documentation.
• Develop and enforce cloud security policies, including identity and access management, encryption, and compliance controls.
• Monitor and optimize cloud resource usage, implementing cost-saving strategies and performance improvements.
• Support disaster recovery and business continuity planning for cloud-hosted systems.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration between infrastructure, operations, security, application development, and business teams.
• Lead cloud readiness assessments and migration planning for legacy systems.
• Drive automation initiatives to reduce manual effort and improve deployment consistency.
• Participate in vendor evaluations and contract negotiations for cloud services and tools.
• Stay current with cloud computing innovations and industry trends, recommending adoption of new technologies.
• Continuously evaluate emerging Azure services and technologies to enhance platform capabilities.
• Work on cost optimization strategies and helps justify cloud investments.
• Provide real-time visibility into cloud consumption and design more efficient systems.
• Facilitate collaboration between technical and financial teams, ensuring cloud solutions are both effective and economical.

Skills

Cloud strategy

Leadership

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Automation

Agile/SDLC

Cross-functional collaboration

Multi-cloud

Security & compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Enterprise

Bitbucket

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Valmont Industries Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to join on-site and lead cloud design across Azure, AWS, and GCP. This on-site role focuses on scalable, secure architectures, cost optimization, governance, and migration planning for legacy systems.

You will mentor technical teams, establish CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, and drive best practices in infrastructure as code, security, and incident resolution.