Senior DevOps Engineer: AI-Powered Production Infra

Deriv; Cyberjaya; On-site; MYR 66,960 - 133,920; Full time

Job summary

Deriv is seeking an experienced production infrastructure and reliability engineer to own end-to-end systems that run millions of trades. You’ll design, build, and operate cloud, container, and database environments with AI-assisted tooling, automate delivery, and harden security alongside a dedicated security team.

You’ll lead incident response, implement self-healing patterns, and continuously improve availability while advancing autonomous AI-based operational capabilities.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of DevOps, SRE, or production operations experience.
• Hands-on experience shipping and supporting real production infrastructure.
• Strong background in incident response, on-call operations, escalation handling, and high-availability web services.
• Infrastructure automation and configuration management experience: Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or equivalent.
• Practical containerization experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Cloud infrastructure experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar, at scale.
• Working knowledge of Linux and Windows Server environments, networking, databases, security, monitoring, and CI/CD.
• Scripting or programming ability in Bash, Python, Go, PowerShell, or similar.
• AI-first operating style using tools to build, troubleshoot, document, and improve infrastructure.
• Ability to move fast while protecting reliability: prototype, test with real workloads, deploy carefully, learn from incidents.

Responsibilities

• Production Infrastructure — Cloud, container, database, monitoring, and CI/CD environments for high-availability services; design it, not just patch it.
• AI-Native Delivery — Automation design, infrastructure-as-code generation, testing, refactoring, documentation, and runbook creation with AI tooling.
• Incident Response & Resilience — Alerting logic, remediation scripts, self-healing patterns, circuit breakers, fault-tolerant architecture.
• Security Operations — Hardening, intrusion detection, configuration audits, and AI-enhanced threat detection with security team.
• End-to-End Ownership — Define problem, architect, implement, deploy safely, monitor, and iterate.
• Monitoring & Observability — Maintain Datadog, Grafana, and custom observability systems with AI-assisted analysis.
• Incident Diagnosis — Diagnose production incidents, coordinate with developers, and drive durable infra improvements.
• Autonomous Operations — Prototype and deploy autonomous AI systems for operations, including always-on agents for remediation.

Skills

DevOps

SRE practices

Incident response

On-call operations

Automation

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Datadog

Grafana

PostgreSQL

Redis

Linux

Windows Server

Python

Go

PowerShell

Job description

Deriv is seeking an experienced production infrastructure and reliability engineer to own end-to-end systems that run millions of trades. You’ll design, build, and operate cloud, container, and database environments with AI-assisted tooling, automate delivery, and harden security alongside a dedicated security team.

You’ll lead incident response, implement self-healing patterns, and continuously improve availability while advancing autonomous AI-based operational capabilities.