# Lead Infrastructure Engineer, Managed Kubernetes Platform (MEKS)

About Grab and Our Workplace Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility. Get to Know the Role The Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Kubernetes & Service Mesh is a lead technical authority within the MEKS platform team. This role is responsible for designing, building, and operating the high-scale container and service mesh infrastructure. This infrastructure powers critical backend services across Grab. Reporting directly to the Platform Engineering Manager, this hands-on lead role focuses entirely on deep technical execution, platform architecture, system reliability, and developer experience. You will serve as the primary architect and technical mentor for the platform, driving multi-cluster AWS EKS strategies, Istio service mesh implementations, and cross-team developer enablement. This is an

- **Id**: 4063221
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/grab-lead-infrastructure-engineer-managed-kubernetes-platform-meks-2>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
- **Countries**: MY
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T07:14:53Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T21:34:54Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5650
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Health insurance, Life insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Delivery, Ride Hailing, Digital Banks & Neobanks

## Company

- **Id**: 158
- **Name**: Grab
- **Domain**: grab.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/grab>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SmartRecruiters

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 62
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **Blue-Green Deployment** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **CloudFormation** — Optional: no
- **Envoy** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Helm** — Optional: no
- **Istio** — Optional: no
- **Jaeger** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Kustomize** — Optional: no
- **Linkerd** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Service Mesh** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Unix** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T09:59:51Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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