# Senior Engineer - Hypervisor, Backup & UNIX

Why PayNet / Why Now Build the infrastructure behind Malaysia’s national payments network, powering rails Malaysians use daily, including DuitNow, FPX, JomPAY, and MyDebit. Operate at true national scale (PayNet reports 8.44B transactions processed in 2025), where architecture decisions materially affect uptime, speed, and trust. Join a public-good operator that reinvests surplus back into making the country’s payment infrastructures more resilient, competitive, and accessible. Step in at an inflection point: PayNet has been shifting from legacy/private connectivity toward internet-based API connectivity and a cloud-based computing model, raising the bar for security and platform engineering. TL;DR Own day-to-day reliability of UNIX, virtualization, and backup platforms supporting national payments Keep mission-critical systems secure, performant, and recoverable Drive automation and modernisation across enterprise infrastructure Act as L3 technical escalation for complex infrastructure incidents Why This Role Matters Payment infrastructure must remain available, recoverable, and secure at all times Infrastructure failures directly affect transaction processing and national tru

- **Id**: 1274980
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/paynet-senior-engineer-hypervisor-backup-unix>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Malaysia
- **Countries**: MY
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-26T01:11:32Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-26
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T01:28:03Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 46
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- **Description chars**: 3267
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- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 2112342
- **Name**: PayNet
- **Domain**: paynet.my
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/paynet-my>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: BrioHR

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 15000
- **Max usd**: 45000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 7767

## Technologies

- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **KVM** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Nagios** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: no
- **Unix** — Optional: no
- **VMWare** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-26T01:11:32Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 15
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.424
- **P room**: 0.35
- **Age days**: 45
- **Expected fill days**: 11
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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