Kerja Sepenuh Masa, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, Principal di AIA Malaysia Federal Territory - Maukerja

What You will Expect:

To deliver a secure, compliant, automated, resilient, and cost-efficient Azure cloud platform, supported by strong governance, enhanced observability and AIOps capabilities, and clear architecture and engineering leadership.

• Build and maintain secure, enterprise-grade Azure environments that meet regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Drive automation and modernization through Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and modern cloud engineering practices.
• Ensure platform resilience through high availability, reliability, scalability, and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Establish and enforce governance, risk, and compliance controls, including policies, guardrails, tagging standards, and security baselines.
• Enhance operational effectiveness through observability, AIOps, cost optimization, and technical leadership.

What You Will Do:

Cloud Infrastructure Engineering

• Design, build, and maintain enterprise-grade Azure cloud environments that are secure, scalable, and compliant with regulatory requirements.
• Develop and implement infrastructure automation solutions using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, scalability, and disaster recovery readiness across cloud platforms.
• Lead cloud modernization and platform transformation initiatives.
• Drive cloud cost optimization initiatives and support engineering teams in understanding and managing cloud cost drivers.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Operate within enterprise governance frameworks and ensure compliance with applicable industry standards and regulations.
• Enforce cloud governance controls, including resource tagging, cost management, security baselines, and policy compliance.
• Collaborate with risk, audit, and compliance teams to meet internal and external regulatory requirements.
• Define and implement cloud guardrails, Azure Policies, and governance blueprints.

Observability & AIOps Integration

• Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and AIOps teams to strengthen end-to-end observability across cloud infrastructure.
• Integrate AIOps capabilities to enable proactive incident detection, root cause analysis, and automated remediation.
• Develop and maintain SLIs, SLOs, dashboards, and alerting mechanisms to ensure optimal platform performance and reliability.

Architecture & Engineering Alignment

• Partner closely with Enterprise Architects to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards, principles, and roadmaps.
• Contribute to architecture reviews, solution approvals, and technology selection decisions.
• Translate business and architectural requirements into scalable, secure, and sustainable infrastructure solutions.

Innovation & Leadership

• Demonstrate innovation leadership by driving the adoption of modern cloud practices, automation, and emerging technologies.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency through automation, platform engineering, and AIOps capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, and influence engineering best practices.
• Champion a DevOps culture, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence across teams.

What You Will Need:

Technical Expertise

• 8-12+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, with a strong focus on cloud technologies (Azure preferred).
• Deep knowledge of Azure services (compute, networking, storage, security, identity), Azure Landing Zones and enterprise-scale architecture, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM).
• Proven experience implementing observability solutions, preferably Dynatrace or similar AIOps platforms.
• Knowledge of Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud) would be an advantage.

Governance & Regulated Environment

• Proven experience working in highly regulated industries such as banking, insurance, healthcare, or government.
• Strong understanding of security frameworks (e.g., NIST, CIS benchmarks) and Cloud governance models and compliance controls.
• Experience operating within engineering governance frameworks and approval processes.

Architecture Collaboration

• Experience working with or supporting Enterprise Architecture functions.
• Ability to interpret and implement enterprise architecture standards, reference architectures, and design principles.

Leadership & Soft Skills

• Demonstrated innovation leadership and a proven ability to drive transformation initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management, collaboration, and communication skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in complex, matrixed enterprise environments.

Certifications:

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
• Relevant security certifications (e.g., CISSP) are an added advantage

Experience With

• CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)
• Container platforms (Kubernetes, AKS)
• Platform engineering and self-service cloud capabilities
• FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization