Senior Cloud & Platform Services Lead

AFFIN Group; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

AFFIN Group in Kuala Lumpur seeks a Senior Cloud & Platform Operations Lead to drive the bank's cloud and infrastructure platforms, ensuring availability, security, and regulatory compliance. You will manage cloud services, virtualization, and platform operations while guiding modernization and automation.

You will lead incident and change management, optimise costs (FinOps), and build dashboards for performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 5-8 years of experience in Cloud, Infrastructure, Platform Operations, or IT Services.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and virtualization.
• Experience in cloud migration, automation, and service management in highly available environments.
• Familiarity with ITIL practices, disaster recovery, business continuity, and technology risk management.
• Experience in managing technology vendors, budgets, contracts, and cloud cost optimization initiatives.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Experience in banking/financial services industry is an added advantage.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise cloud and infrastructure platform operations.
• Ensure 24x7 availability of critical services via proactive monitoring and incident management.
• Define and maintain platform standards, SOPs, and SLAs.
• Ensure cloud governance, cost optimization, resource utilization, and security compliance.
• Drive cloud adoption initiatives, migrations, and modernization programs.
• Lead incident, problem, and change management activities.
• Build operational dashboards and service performance reports; drive continuous improvement.
• Ensure platform resilience through disaster recovery and business continuity readiness.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Communication

Cloud awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Virtualization

Disaster Recovery

Job description

AFFIN Group in Kuala Lumpur seeks a Senior Cloud & Platform Operations Lead to drive the bank's cloud and infrastructure platforms, ensuring availability, security, and regulatory compliance. You will manage cloud services, virtualization, and platform operations while guiding modernization and automation.

You will lead incident and change management, optimise costs (FinOps), and build dashboards for performance.