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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.\n Get to Know the Role\nThe 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 onsite position based in the Jakarta office.\nThe Critical Tasks You Will Perform Architecture & Platform Engineering\nService Mesh Implementation involves designing and deploying production-grade Istio service mesh infrastructure. This infrastructure consists of a data plane and control plane. It requires managing various aspects, including mTLS, traffic management, canary/blue-green deployments, rate limiting, and circuit breaking, to optimize the service mesh.\nArchitect and manage large-scale AWS EKS clusters, driving multi-cluster/multi-region topologies, node-pool optimization, custom scheduler strategies, and automated cluster lifecycles.\nEstablish standardized cluster templates, namespaces, network policies, RBAC, and policy-as-code guardrails across the organization.\nDeveloper Experience & Self-Service Tooling\nBuild and maintain self-service APIs, GitOps workflows, and automation that simplify onboarding, deployments, and traffic management for internal product engineering teams.\nPartner directly with application teams to guide architectural choices, streamline workload migrations to MEKS, and accelerate time-to-market.\nCreate comprehensive platform documentation, golden path templates, runbooks, and reference architectures to foster engineering self-sufficiency.\nReliability, Observability & Incident Response\nImplement telemetry, metrics, distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry/Jaeger), and centralized logging across clusters, Envoy proxies, and application workloads.\nEstablish and uphold technical SLOs/SLAs, driving proactive capacity management, resource right-sizing, and performance tuning for peak availability and optimal infrastructure efficiency.\nAct as a senior technical point of escalation for complex platform outages, lead root-cause analyses , and execute corrective actions to prevent recurrence.\nTechnical Mentorship & Collaboration\nMentor mid-level and senior engineers on the team in modern Kubernetes, mesh architecture, and distributed systems best practices.\nCollaborate with Security, SRE, Networking, and Cloud Infrastructure teams to ensure platform security, regulatory compliance, and seamless integration.\n What Essential Skills You Will Need\n10+ years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or cloud platforms, combining a proven track record of designing, deploying, and managing production Kubernetes environments with demonstrated success in mentoring and leading technical teams.\nExpert-level knowledge of Kubernetes architecture and container technologies, including experience with configuration managers (Helm, Kustomize), service meshes (Istio, Linkerd), and cloud-native deployment patterns.\nHands-on experience across major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and multi-cloud management, leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.\nProven ability to design and implement automated CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and modern GitOps practices.\nSolid foundation in Linux/Unix system administration and networking principles, paired with proficiency in scripting languages like Python, Bash, or Go.\nPractical experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack) and a strong understanding of infrastructure security and compliance frameworks.\n Life at Grab\nWe care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:\nWe have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.\nWith GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.\nCelebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave\nWe have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.\nBalancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours\nWhat We Stand For At Grab\nWe are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. 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