Senior DevOps Engineer

Involve Asia is a performance-based marketing technology company headquartered in Malaysia that connects advertisers with publishers across web, mobile, and social channels to automate campaigns, optimize performance, and grow revenue.

We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to design, operate, and continuously improve cloud infrastructure and the application delivery platform across AWS and Kubernetes, driving automation, CI/CD/GitOps, reliability, security, observability, and efficiency.

• Design, build, operate, and improve highly available and scalable infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes.
• Own Kubernetes platform architecture, including cluster configuration, upgrades, networking, workload scheduling, scaling, security, and production reliability.
• Design and maintain reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, and automate system configuration, provisioning, and operational tasks using Ansible.
• Develop and maintain reusable Terraform modules and Ansible roles/playbooks to ensure infrastructure is consistent, repeatable, and maintainable across environments.
• Build and improve CI/CD and GitOps workflows that enable safe, repeatable, and efficient application deployments.
• Improve platform reliability through effective monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex production infrastructure and application deployment issues.
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-incident improvements to prevent recurrence.
• Implement and continuously improve cloud and Kubernetes security, including IAM, secrets management, network security, access controls, and infrastructure hardening.
• Identify opportunities to improve cloud cost efficiency, infrastructure performance, and resource utilization.
• Automate repetitive operational processes using scripting and engineering tools.
• Establish and promote DevOps standards, infrastructure best practices, documentation, and operational processes.
• Partner closely with Software Engineering, QA, Product, and other teams to improve developer experience and production readiness.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers and contribute to infrastructure architecture and technology decisions.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a similar infrastructure-focused role, with strong hands-on experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting production cloud infrastructure.
• Strong production experience with AWS, including services such as EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, load balancing, auto scaling, and related cloud services.
• Strong hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating Kubernetes environments.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes architecture, networking, storage, security, resource management, scaling, and troubleshooting.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code, including reusable modules, state management, and infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Hands-on experience with Ansible, including developing and maintaining playbooks, roles, inventories, and configuration-management automation.
• Experience integrating Terraform and Ansible into CI/CD or GitOps workflows for automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure automation principles, including idempotency, version control, testing, secrets handling, and environment consistency.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using platforms such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of Docker and containerized application environments.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog, or equivalent.
• Strong Linux, networking, and production troubleshooting skills.
• Experience automating operational tasks using Bash, Python, Go, or similar languages.
• Good understanding of cloud security, IAM, secrets management, infrastructure security, and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience operating production systems with an emphasis on availability, scalability, security, and operational excellence.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

• Hands-on experience implementing GitOps using tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
• Experience with Kubernetes package management and deployment tooling such as Helm.
• Experience managing large-scale or multi-environment infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience with Ansible Vault, dynamic inventories, or AWX/Ansible Automation Platform.
• Experience designing or operating multi-account or multi-environment AWS architectures.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native security tooling and practices.
• Experience defining or working with SLIs, SLOs, availability targets, and operational metrics.
• Experience with cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices.
• Experience supporting high-traffic or business-critical production platforms.
• Experience mentoring engineers or leading infrastructure/platform initiatives.

Skills

Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, GitOps, Docker, Prometheus, Linux, Python