Senior SRE: Automation, Reliability & Scale

Swift Software; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Swift is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer in Kuala Lumpur to manage system administration lifecycles, design architectures, automate deployments, and drive reliability across multi-tenant infrastructure.

You will review architectures, implement monitoring, and collaborate with developers to improve reliability. Proficiency in Python scripting and IaC (Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, OpenShift) and experience with ITIL, Agile, and cross-border teams are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in engineering, CS, IT or equivalent.
• Minimum 15 years of experience in SRE or sys admin/software development in an international company.
• Minimum 2 years of experience leading projects.
• Familiarity with data ingestion using Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana and Kafka.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, Git and Docker.
• Proficiency in Linux and scripting/automation (Python, PowerShell, YAML).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, REST/SOAP APIs.
• Experience with ITIL processes and Agile environments.
• Experience building data-driven metrics and reporting.
• Strong collaboration across time zones and cultures.

Responsibilities

• Work through all phases of the system administration life cycle: capacity planning, architecture design, deployment, monitoring and incident management.
• Develop automation scripts, infrastructure as code, and tooling to improve reliability and reduce manual work.
• Review architectures, deployment strategies, observability, and ops docs to ensure reliability.
• Analyze production issues, identify root causes and implement long-term improvements via automation and monitoring.
• Collaborate with team members and mentor juniors.
• Ensure efficient handovers with high-quality documentation and training.
• Automate deployment and operation of multi-tenant infrastructure for resilience and availability.
• Develop and maintain monitoring tools and dashboards with self-healing capabilities.
• Participate in on-call rotations and blameless postmortems; drive continuous learning.
• Work with developers, product teams, and engineers to troubleshoot and integrate reliability improvements.
• Provide accurate project estimates and adapt plans across project lifecycles.

Skills

SRE

Linux

Python

Automation

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Terraform

OpenShift

REST APIs

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s in Engineering/CS/IT

Tools

Maven

Jenkins

Nexus

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Terraform

Ansible

vCenter

Job description

Swift is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer in Kuala Lumpur to manage system administration lifecycles, design architectures, automate deployments, and drive reliability across multi-tenant infrastructure.

You will review architectures, implement monitoring, and collaborate with developers to improve reliability. Proficiency in Python scripting and IaC (Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, OpenShift) and experience with ITIL, Agile, and cross-border teams are essential.