Lead DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineering

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

The Team:

S&P Global Enterprise Data Organization team is a creative team of experts collaborating across divisions and driving continuous improvements in platform innovation and usability.

The Impact:

Joining our team in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the candidate will be responsible for supporting and expanding our cloud infrastructure, monitoring and alerting frameworks, onboarding/migration projects, and interacting with the wider DevOps, QA, and development teams. We are looking for someone with proven DevOps experience who has development and operational skills and can deliver a secure and structured automated solutions to our operational tasks.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with software development teams to improve application reliability, performance, security and scalability.

• Provide BAU Production support, and resolve issues either spotted by monitoring or reported by users before causing business impact

• Develop scripts in Terraform, Python and Unix shell scripting to automate tasks and streamline processes.

• Design, implement, and manage infrastructure using Terraform on AWS cloud platform utilizing best practices

• Comfortable with writing database queries and performing database management with an added advantage of experience in Document-Oriented Data Bases, AWS storage solutions

• Set up and configure monitoring solutions, including Grafana, PagerDuty, Splunk to ensure system health and respond to incidents promptly.

• Availability to occasionally participate in weekend production releases/deployments and availability to sometimes discuss handovers with teams in Europe and Asia at the early mornings or late afternoon.

What We’re Looking For:

Basic Qualifications:

• 7-15 years of relevant DevOps and Software Engineering experience.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field. Relevant certifications.

• Proven experience working with AWS cloud technologies, GitHub, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Familiar with Database and Database query (Document-Oriented Data Bases experience preferred but not mandatory, good experience on scripting or coding would be a plus)

• Familiarity with monitoring solutions/logging solutions such as PagerDuty/Splunk and other industry-standard tools.

• Lunix and networking knowledge. Good understanding of AWS network configurations such as Routing, DNS, Load Balancing, IAM, security group

• Demonstrated problem-solving ability and a proactive approach to identifying, resolving issues and raising improvement opportunities

• Ability to adapt to a dynamic work environment and handle multiple priorities.

• Good written and verbal communication skills, including experience speaking to technical and business audiences.

• Be able to work independently, or drive a group of people, to work on improvement projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional or a comparable AWS certification.
• Certification in an enterprise container platform.
• Certification or demonstrated experience with Amazon DocumentDB or another enterprise-managed document-oriented database service.
• Experience supporting enterprise cloud environments with formal security, governance, incident management, and change-control requirements.

What’s In It For You?

Our Mission:

Advancing Essential Intelligence.

Our People:

We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide-so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you-and your career-need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include:

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.

• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.

• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards-small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

Global Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global:

At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering a connected and engaged workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and merit, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets.

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Equal Opportunity Employer

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.

If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: [email protected] and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.

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