Senior Executive, DevOps & Release Engineering

Cloud Kinetics; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Part time

Job summary

Cloud Kinetics Senior Executive, DevOps & Release Engineering in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, seeks an experienced professional to lead CI/CD, IaC, and cloud operations across on‑prem and cloud environments. You will implement automations, enforce security standards, and guide multi‑discipline teams.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product and engineering teams, with focus on reliability, monitoring, and release governance within financial services contexts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or related field.
• Proven expertise in VMware, Linux, Wintel, storage, and data centre operations.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Alibaba, GCP, Azure).
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with containers (Docker, Kubernetes), serverless, IAM, and SSO.
• Deep understanding of network computing, monitoring, alerting, and email systems.
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks and financial industry standards.
• Proficiency with source code repositories and CI/CD services (GitLab, Bitbucket, GitHub).

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and optimization of CI/CD pipelines for deployments.
• Drive automation using Terraform, Ansible, Atlantis across on-prem and cloud.
• Oversee deployments and operations on AWS and hybrid environments.
• Champion SRE practices: HA, DR, monitoring, and alerting.
• Manage toolchain integration (GitLab, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, Slack).
• Ensure compliance with financial/regulatory standards in deployments.
• Collaborate with product/engineering/ops to drive automation and improvements.
• Provide technical leadership in customer-facing scenarios in financial services.

Skills

DevOps practices

SRE principles

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud computing

Automation

Security awareness

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science/IT

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Atlantis

AWS

Alibaba

GCP

Azure

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab

Bitbucket

GitHub

Jira

Confluence

Slack

PagerDuty

Grafana

Datadog

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

VMware

Linux

Wintel

IAM

SSO

Job description

Senior Executive, DevOps & Release Engineering Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia 3 - 6 Years Contractor

Job Description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Pipeline & Release Management : Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of CI/CD pipelines for product and engineering deployments.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) : Drive automation using Terraform, Ansible, Atlantis, and related tooling to manage infrastructure across on-prem and cloud environments.
• Cloud & Hybrid Operations : Oversee deployments and operations across cloud computing platform (primarily AWS) including containers, RDS, serverless stacks, IAM, and SSO.
• Reliability Engineering : Champion SRE principles, ensuring high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), monitoring, and alerting practices.
• Toolchain Leadership : Manage and integrate tools such as GitLab, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, Slack, PagerDuty, Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.
• Security & Compliance : Ensure adherence to compliance frameworks, including financial regulations (e.g., Bank Negara RMIT), and enforce security standards across deployments.
• Collaboration & Leadership : Partner with product, engineering, and operations teams to drive automation, scripting, scheduling, and continuous improvement.
• Customer & Stakeholder Engagement : Provide technical leadership in customer-facing scenarios, especially within financial services environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Proven expertise in VMware, Linux, Wintel, storage, and data centre operations.
• Strong knowledge of cloud computing platforms (AWS, Alibaba, GCP, Azure).
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with containers (Docker, Kubernetes), serverless architectures, IAM, and SSO.
• Deep understanding of network computing, monitoring, alerting, and email systems.
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks and financial industry standards.
• Proficiency with source code repositories and CI/CD services such as GitLab, Bitbucket, and GitHub, including branching strategies, pipeline orchestration, and release governance.