COMPANY OVERVIEW
A well-established client of us in Kuala Lumpur is seeking for Site Reliability Engineering Lead.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Team Leadership:
○ Lead and mentor a team of SREs, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
○ Define clear goals, performance metrics, and development plans for the team.
- System Reliability & Performance:
○ Design and implement strategies to improve system reliability, scalability, and performance.
○ Conduct root cause analysis of production incidents and develop preventive solutions.
- Infrastructure Management:
○ Oversee the deployment, monitoring, and management of production environments.
○ Collaborate with development teams to design cloud-native infrastructure and architecture.
- Automation & CI/CD:
○ Drive automation of operational processes, reducing manual intervention and response times.
○ Optimize CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth and rapid deployments.
- Incident Management:
○ Establish incident response protocols and lead efforts during major incidents.
○ Ensure robust monitoring and alerting systems are in place to proactively detect issues.
- Collaboration & Communication:
○ Act as a liaison between engineering, operations, and other teams to align objectives.
○ Share insights and best practices with internal stakeholders to enhance overall system resilience.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- Technical Expertise:
○ Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, etc.).
○ Proficiency in programming/scripting languages (Python, Go, Shell, etc.).
○ Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, containerization, and distributed systems.
- Leadership Skills:
○ Proven track record of leading SRE or DevOps teams and managing large-scale production environments.
○ Strong decision-making, prioritization, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Monitoring & Metrics:
○ Expertise in implementing and using monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.) and logging systems.
○ Familiarity with service-level objectives (SLOs), service-level agreements (SLAs), and error budgets.
- Soft Skills:
- Experience:
○ Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work across cross-functional teams.
○ Ability to mentor and upskill team members, fostering a learning-oriented culture.
○ At least 8 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or related roles with a focus on reliability engineering