Senior Data Platform SRE — Cloud, Kubernetes & Analytics

Guidewire Software; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Guidewire invites a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Data Platform) to lead reliability across our data stack on AWS, building automation, scalable cloud infrastructure, and robust observability. You will drive CI/CD automation, blue/green deployments, and incident response improvements while collaborating with product, data, and security teams to support AI and analytics workloads.

The role emphasizes governance, cost-aware design, and continuous improvement, with a focus on reliability and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or similar roles.
• Formal degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement self-service automation and tooling to streamline deployment, operations, and troubleshooting for data platform services.
• Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines to support safe, frequent deployments with automated checks.
• Use Infrastructure as Code to build, harden, and maintain repeatable cloud infrastructure for data workloads.
• Operate and improve Kubernetes-based environments (AWS EKS) for containerized data services.
• Apply blue/green and canary deployments and support chaos engineering for resilience validation.
• Collaborate on capacity planning and cost-aware cloud design across compute, storage, and networking.
• Build end-to-end observability using Datadog and ELK, with metrics, traces, and dashboards.
• Develop dashboards and alerts for data pipeline health and platform performance.
• Analyze operational data to identify reliability risks and inform roadmaps.
• Partner with product engineering, data platform, security, and other SRE teams on architectural improvements.

Skills

Automation tooling

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Kubernetes & Docker

Cloud platforms (AWS)

Monitoring/Observability

Education

BS/MS in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Datadog

ELK

TeamCity

Github Actions

Kafka

Hadoop

Spark

Job description

Guidewire invites a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Data Platform) to lead reliability across our data stack on AWS, building automation, scalable cloud infrastructure, and robust observability. You will drive CI/CD automation, blue/green deployments, and incident response improvements while collaborating with product, data, and security teams to support AI and analytics workloads.

The role emphasizes governance, cost-aware design, and continuous improvement, with a focus on reliability and