Job description
Role Purpose
As a hands-on Senior Platform Engineer ā Lead, you will work within the Infra Delivery APAC team to transform from server-based infrastructure to a modern, AWS/Cloud-native platform. You will lead the design, build, secure, and operate cloud platforms and delivery pipelines; coach DevOps and infrastructure colleagues to uplift skills; and embed a disciplined planābuildātestāreleaseādeployāmonitor rhythm across teams. You are comfortable with frequent, incremental testing and deployments and champion a DevOps culture of automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Influence
- Mentor and educate DevOps and infrastructure teammates to build competent, professional DevOps practice.
- Establish and socialize standards across:
- Continuous Integration (CI)
- Continuous Delivery (CD)
- Microservices
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Monitoring & Logging
- Communication & Collaboration
- Translate business requirements into robust, scalable and replicable platform solutions aligned with enterprise architecture.
- Act as a technical advisor and trusted partner across engineering, operations, data, and security.
- Drive process improvements for seamless handovers to operations and ensure knowledge redundancy.
- Proactively identify opportunities to support global colleagues and streamline ways of working.
Cloud Platform Engineering (AWS/Cloud)
- Design, provision, and operate secure, scalable AWS/Cloud environments.
- Build patterns for networking, compute resources, storage, identity, observability, and security guardrails.
- Migrate on-premises workloads to AWS/Cloud, modernizing where appropriate (containers/serverless, managed data services).
DevOps SDLC & Automation
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines with automated build, test, security scans, and deployment gates.
Microservices & Application Platform
- Support teams adopting microservices: service boundaries, APIs, contracts, schema/versioning, and eventing patterns.
- Operate container platforms (Docker, EKS/Kubernetes) and/or serverless (Lambda, Step Functions).
Infrastructure as Code & Configuration Management
- Codify infrastructure with Terraform or CloudFormation; enforce modules, tagging, and policy-as-code.
- Apply configuration management (Ansible/SSM), including patching and drift detection.
Observability & Reliability
- Define and measure SLOs/SLIs, set error budgets, and run blameless postmortems.
- Build observability with CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and centralized logging.
Security & Compliance
- Implement least-privilege IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, VPC security, WAF, and data protection.
- Integrate DevSecOps (SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, container image scanning) into pipelines.
Documentation & Knowledge Management
- Maintain concise, current documentation (runbooks, architecture diagrams, standards, onboarding guides).
- Drive cross-skilling and ensure no single points of failure in knowledge.
Operations & Support
- Participate in onācall rotation (if applicable), incident response, and problem management.
- Champion Continuous Service Improvement (CSI) and defect elimination.
Team Deliverables
Delivering on his/her functional leadership practice, the candidate will help the DevOps team achieve the following benefits:
Speed
- Move at high velocity to innovate faster and adapt to changing markets.
- Mature in microservice creation, CI/CD approaches.
- Learn ownership of services and release updates quicker.
Rapid Delivery
- Increase release frequencies to improve code and product quality.
- Release bug fixes timely to respond to customer needs.
- Mature in CI/CD and microservices for rapid delivery.
Reliability
- Improve quality of updates in both application and infrastructure changes.
- Ensure service reliability and positive end-user experience.
- Mature in CI/CD and Monitoring & Logging practices.
Improved Collaboration
- Foster pride, ownership, and accountability for releases.
- Reduce inefficiencies and save time through shorter handovers.
- Mature in DevOps cultural model and facilitate collaboration.
Security
- Move quickly while retaining control and preserving security.
- Adopt Infrastructure as Code and Policy as Code for compliance.
- Design with security first before functionality.
Design
- Design and implement scalable, automated, and secure infrastructure.
- Align systems with long-term architectural strategy.
- Create technical design specifications.
Development
- Develop and build IT solutions to meet business requirements.
- Install, configure, and integrate solutions.
- Design reusable components, maintain scripts, and execute/document test plans.
Deployment
- Build automated deployments using configuration management technology.
- Deploy new modules, upgrades, and fixes to production.
- Document and transfer knowledge to production support.
Maintenance (Break/Fix)
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaborate with developers for scalability, reliability, and security.
- Perform routine maintenance and act as escalation point for production support.
Continuous Service Improvement
- Evaluate existing applications/platforms and recommend improvements.
- Continuously improve DevOps processes, tools, and systems.
- Maintain documentation and assist in user guides/training.
Documentation
- Maintain all documentation required to support DevOps functions.
- Assist in developing user guides and training documentation.
- Promote knowledge sharing and cross-skilling across teams.