Senior Devops Engineer

Xplor Education; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Xplor Technologies is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer in Malaysia to own cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and security across our stack. You will design scalable systems on AWS, implement IaC with Terraform, and mentor junior engineers while enabling faster, safer deployments.

The role emphasizes incident response, CI/CD improvements, and collaboration with security teams to uphold best practices in a high-availability environment.

Qualifications

• Malaysian citizen; Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related IT field.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in a similar DevOps environment.
• Solid knowledge of cloud infrastructure management (preferably AWS).
• Understanding of security best practices for web applications.
• Understanding of internetworking concepts and protocols.
• Linux administration experience.

Responsibilities

• Keep the lights on by implementing and maintaining monitoring and observability; respond to incidents promptly.
• Manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform and related tooling; design scalable, resilient systems.
• Coach and mentor junior developers on DevOps practices and continuous learning.
• Implement security across the stack and collaborate with security teams to address concerns.
• Enhance developer experience by improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling.

Skills

DevOps

Cloud infrastructure

Security best practices

Linux administration

Networking basics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering or related IT field

Tools

Terraform

Packer

CircleCI

AWS

Job description

Company Description

Xplor Technologies powers the experiences at the heart of everyday life. Through modern vertical software, embedded payments, and AI-powered capabilities, we help businesses in fitness, recreation, golf and club, field services, laundry, education, and other membership-based and service-based industries simplify operations, uncover insights, and elevate customer and member experiences.

In late 2025, we acquired Ezypay – a multi-award-winning recurring payments facilitator operating across 10 countries in Asia Pacific. Ezypay now sits within our Xplor Pay division, expanding our global payment processing capabilities and opening up new growth opportunities for SaaS platforms across the region.

Job Description

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Keeping the Lights On: Implement and maintain monitoring and observability solutions to proactively identify and address issues. Respond to incidents and troubleshoot production issues promptly.

• Infrastructure Management: Manage cloud infrastructure using tools like Terraform, Packer. Design, build, and maintain scalable and resilient infrastructure.

• Coaching and Mentoring: Mentor junior team members and other developers on DevOps best practices. Share knowledge and promote a culture of continuous learning.

• Security: Implement security best practices across the entire stack. Collaborate with security team to address security concerns.

• Developer Experience: Enhance CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes. Provide tools and documentation to streamline development and deployment

Our Technical Environment:

• Our next generation payments platform has been developed using Java – specifically leveraging the Spring Boot framework
• Our infrastructure is hosted on AWS; using a mixture of containerization (Fargate) and vanilla EC2
• Our systems are secure and highly available – we have implemented passive and active monitoring and incident escalation using a combination of Datadog, CloudWatch Logs and Metrics, Postman, and Pagerduty
• We utilise GraphQL (leveraging Apollo and Hasura) to open up our rich data model to internal and external stakeholders
• We develop frontend systems using the Vue, Angular, and Ionic frameworks
• We aggregate and analyze logs from all of our systems via the ELK stack
• Our operating system of choice is CentOS and our DevSecOps team is fanatical about security, monitoring, and patch management
• Our infrastructure is immutable and managed using IaC principles via Terraform
• We leverage build automation (specifically CircleCI), and we’re working toward continuous deployment across all environments
• We take advantage of AWS services to meet our various technology requirements:
• PostgreSQL databases run on Aurora Serverless or Aurora clusters managed via RDS
• Redis clusters are managed via ElastiCache
• KMS provides managed security services
• AWS Lambda and API Gateway support our serverless infrastructure; DynamoDB is also an important part of our stack
• We utilise highly durable messaging technologies such as SQS, Kinesis, Amazon MQ and AWS EventBridge

Qualifications

• Malaysian citizen (Required).Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or relevant Information technology industry experience.

• Minimum 4 years experience in a similar environment

• Solid working knowledge in managing cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS)

• Understanding of security best practices in the context of web applications

• Understanding of internetworking concepts and protocols

• Linux Administration experience

Additional Information

Values and Life at Xplor

Our five core values guide us from how we hire and recognise our team members to how we interact with our customers day to day:

• Find a better way
• Do the right thing
• Say it straight
• Win together
• Own the outcome

If these values sound like you, and describe people you want to work with, you will thrive at Xplor.

As an Xplorer, you will be part of a global network of talented colleagues who will support your success. We look for commonalities and shared passions and give people the tools they need to deliver great work and grow at speed.

Some of our perks and benefits are:

• Flexible working arrangements
• Access to free mental health support
• Ongoing dedication to Diversity & Inclusion initiatives such as D&I Council, Global Mentorship Program

We understand that diverse candidates have diverse needs. We welcome you to inform us of any additional needs related to completing your job application or participating in the interview process, via [email protected]

More about us

More than 130,000 businesses in 72+ countries rely on Xplor to run their day and get paid, processing over $47 billion in payments annually. Our connected ecosystem helps operators spend less time managing complexity and more time delivering the experiences that matter most.

Xplor is backed by world-class investors Advent International, Battery Ventures, and Silver Lake.

Good to know

To be considered for employment, you must be legally authorised to work in the location (country) you're applying for. Xplor does not sponsor visas, either at the time of hire or at any later time.

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EEO and Artificial Intelligence

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