Senior DevOps Engineer – Cloud, Kubernetes, Security

Meteora

Singapore

On-site

SGD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Meteora in Singapore or Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and improve the infrastructure behind a high-traffic production platform. You will work hands-on on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, incident response, automation and production security.

This role is a deeply hands-on, individual-contributor position; you will design infrastructure, write automation, deploy changes and take ownership from implementation through ongoing operation, collaborating

Qualifications

At least 7 years of hands-on experience across DevOps, SRE, cloud infrastructure or production engineering.
Strong production experience with Google Cloud Platform or another major cloud provider.
Deep experience deploying and operating Kubernetes in production.
Strong knowledge of networking, Linux systems, containers, DNS, load balancing and cloud architecture.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
Strong experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
Experience building monitoring, logging, alerting and observability systems.
Demonstrated ability to investigate and resolve complex production incidents independently.
Strong understanding of IAM, authentication, authorisation, secrets management and infrastructure security.
Ability to navigate infrastructure configurations, application code, logs and distributed production systems.
Proficiency in at least one relevant programming or scripting language, such as Go, Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Java or Rust.
Strong debugging, automation and problem-solving capabilities.
Ability to operate independently in a fast-moving engineering environment.
Working knowledge of cryptocurrency, blockchain, DeFi and exchange infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Design, build and operate highly available production infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform.
Manage and improve Kubernetes clusters, networking, compute, storage, databases and other managed cloud services.
Build reusable infrastructure through infrastructure-as-code and automation.
Improve the scalability, reliability, performance and cost efficiency of production systems.
Establish consistent infrastructure standards across development, staging and production environments.
Identify and resolve infrastructure bottlenecks, configuration issues and operational risks.
Evaluate and implement new infrastructure tools where they provide clear operational value.
Maintain clear documentation and runbooks for critical systems.
Own and improve CI/CD pipelines, build systems and deployment workflows.
Automate testing, builds, releases, environment provisioning and production deployments.
Improve deployment speed and reliability while maintaining appropriate safeguards.
Secure source-code repositories, build environments, automation systems and deployment credentials.
Implement branch protections, approval workflows, rollback processes and deployment auditability.
Review infrastructure-as-code and deployment configurations for reliability and security issues.
Work closely with engineers to make deployments simple, repeatable and safe.
Build and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting and observability across infrastructure and applications.
Define service-level indicators and operational metrics for critical production systems.
Improve visibility into system health, application performance and infrastructure utilisation.
Detect and investigate abnormal service behaviour before it becomes a major incident.
Reduce alert noise and ensure that operational alerts are clear and actionable.
Identify recurring production issues and implement long-term preventive improvements.
Conduct capacity planning and prepare systems for periods of increased activity.
Respond to production incidents involving infrastructure, services, APIs, databases and deployment systems.
Lead technical investigations from initial alert through containment, diagnosis and resolution.
Coordinate recovery efforts across DevOps, SRE, backend and frontend engineering.
Perform root‑cause analysis and lead post‑incident reviews.
Develop and maintain incident‑response and disaster‑recovery playbooks.
Improve system resilience, redundancy, backup and recovery processes.
Participate in an appropriate production support or on‑call rotation.
Apply security best practices across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD and developer environments.
Manage IAM, service accounts, privileged access and least‑privilege policies.
Improve the management of credentials, secrets, API keys and deployment permissions.
Monitor infrastructure and production systems for suspicious access, configuration changes and abnormal activity.
Identify exposed services, excessive permissions, insecure configurations and other infrastructure weaknesses.
Introduce network segmentation and appropriate controls around sensitive systems.
Strengthen software‑supply‑chain security across repositories, dependencies and build environments.
Support the investigation and remediation of infrastructure or application security incidents.
Establish secure infrastructure baselines and monitor environments for deviations.
Partner with backend and frontend engineers to improve application deployment, reliability and performance.
Provide infrastructure guidance during the design of new services and products.
Help engineers diagnose production and performance issues.
Review backend architecture from an operational, scalability and security perspective.
Contribute to backend or DevOps code when additional engineering support is required.
Improve service‑to‑service authentication, API security and production configuration.
Make infrastructure and security practices practical and easy for engineers to adopt.