Senior Platform Engineer (DevOps)
Bangsar South, W.P. Kuala Lumpur
|Hybrid
|Direct hire
|Job ID 7829|Posted Jul 22, 2025JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer (DevOps)
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
About Horizontal: Established since 2003 in the US, Horizontal solves complex challenges across two distinct businesses: Horizontal Digital and Horizontal Talent. We are consistently recognized for being a top workplace and one of the fastest growing private companies. Horizontal Talent specializes in staffing for IT, Digital & Creative and Business & Strategy markets. We have global offices in US, UAE, India, Malaysia and Australia.
Job profile
Job profile
Our Client is revolutionizing voice and data capturing and processing for telecommunications and governmental agencies through innovative IP and Voice data stream processing and analytics. Their cutting-edge solutions shape the future of global communication, processing billions of data points daily and directly impacting government operations.
Our Client is seeking a talented and exceptional Senior Platform Engineer who wants to make a difference in the world, has a strong will of constant learning and development, is open and collaborative, and never stops striving to improve and develop themselves and the products/services they are responsible for. He/she will manage continuous integration, continuous delivery of CICD, and observability processes and tools used in developing complex high-performance application stacks. You'll partner with our development team to create groundbreaking technology. This is an incredible opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the industry and our organization.
Key Responsibilities
Our Client is seeking a talented and exceptional Senior Platform Engineer who wants to make a difference in the world, has a strong will of constant learning and development, is open and collaborative, and never stops striving to improve and develop themselves and the products/services they are responsible for. He/she will manage continuous integration, continuous delivery of CICD, and observability processes and tools used in developing complex high-performance application stacks. You'll partner with our development team to create groundbreaking technology. This is an incredible opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the industry and our organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Participate in platform software engineering, writing code to continue reducing human intervention in operational tasks and automating processes.
- Lead in-depth technical and data analysis to gauge service trends and drive improvements.
- Contribute to prioritizing reliability features and the design, development, and delivery of effective tooling, alerts, and automated responses to identify and address reliability risks.
- Contribute to proactive technical communication of reliability, stability, and efficiency results (based on Service Level Objectives), service health (via dashboards), key reliability risks, and issues to senior business and technology stakeholders - to prioritize activity (based on trend analysis) and direct investment and action.
- Automate the installation and maintenance of the test/development server, release build, and deployment of existing tools and dependent solutions.
- Design and take ownership of innovations that improve software engineering velocity, infrastructure resiliency, and security.
- Evaluate new application packages and tools and perform research on best practices.
- Ability to debug and find the root cause of the errors related to infrastructure problems for an ongoing operation.
- Have the technical skills to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the DevOps project.
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years experience in software development and DevSecOps/SRE functions with at least two years in a senior technical capacity.
- You are either a Software Engineer with a real interest in systems, networking, monitoring, and automation or an experienced sysadmin or systems engineer with professional Linux skills, development experience managing distributed systems at scale, and a demonstrable interest and experience in using software engineering to solve operational problems.
- Comfortable writing software to automate API-driven tasks at scale. Tooling engineers primarily use Java C/C++, NodeJS, Python, and Go.
- Experience automating the build and deployment of software products and understanding the related challenges in distributed systems.
- Ability to quickly and clearly communicate incident status via email in business-friendly language
- Experience and advanced understanding of Observability tools (e.g., ELK, Grafana/Prometheus, Zabbix, Nagios, etc.
- Experience designing and implementing CI/CD and release management solutions.
- Well-rounded broad knowledge of OS platforms (Linux/UNIX), Networking, Web Systems, and DevSecOps.
- Experience working with large-scale distributed systems with an understanding of microservices architecture concepts.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to effectively manage multiple tasks.
- Experience with containers and CD tools – e.g., Pulumi, Docker, Ansible, Puppet, etc.
- Experience with integration and build tools – Jenkins, Groovy, Maven, Atlassian Suite, GitLab CI.
Preferred Qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Familiarity with Agile/Lean methodologies, particularly Kanban and Scrum.
- Good understanding and knowledge of distributed systems
- Experience with programming languages C/C++, Java, Golang, Python, etc.
- Experience with IaC (Infrastructure as a code), e.g., Pulumi/Terraform.
- Good understanding of the Linux Kernel and hardware optimizations.
- Experience with Networking, storage (SAN/NAS), and virtualization technology
Personal Attributes
- Exceptional problem-solving skills and ability to think critically based on first principles thinking.
- Strong leadership qualities with the ability to drive and motivate engineering teams.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Self-driven and proactive, with a passion for technology and innovation.
- Adaptable and open-minded, able to work effectively in a multicultural environment.
- Detail-oriented while maintaining a strategic, big-picture perspective.
Additional Information
- Language: Fluent oral and written English is mandatory.
- Good interpersonal skills
- Excellent organizational skills
- Team player but able to work on own initiative
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Enthusiastic, self-starter and highly self-motivated
- Appreciation of cultural differences
- Attention to detail
Horizontal is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.
We seek to provide employment opportunities to talented, qualified candidates regardless of race, color, sex/gender including gender identity and/or expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under federal, state or local law.
In addition, Horizontal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation in order to complete the application or interview process, please contact us.
All applicants applying must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment.