Senior site reliability engineer

Location: Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur

Remote Type: This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Entity:

Technology

Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

Job Description:

Who you will work with

A multi-disciplinary squad, engaging enterprise platform teams, data platform teams, vendors, third party resources in resilient and optimal operations of one or more business critical platform.

 

Let me tell you about the role

As a site reliability engineer, we will be responsible for building, maintaining and operating the software solutions, infrastructure and services that powers technology platforms. In this role, we work with a team of engineers and team members to ensure that the digital solutions are highly available, scalable, and secure and will be responsible for automating routine tasks, improving the solution's performance, and providing technical support to other teams.

 

What you will deliver

• Ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of large-scale, cloud-based applications and infrastructure.
• Creating automated solutions to improve operational aspects of the site.
• Ensure that applications and websites run smoothly and efficiently.
• Detect issues and automatically managing failures to keep systems up and running.
• Work with software developers, engineers, and operations teams to improve system performance.
• Analyse incidents to prevent future disruptions.

 

What you will need to be successful (experience and qualifications)

 

Technical skills

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field or equivalent work experience.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS / Azure cloud engineering, fundamentals, DevOps, architect certifications) can be beneficial. Knowledge of networking concepts, protocols, and tools, willingness to learn new technologies and adapt to changing environments.
• Skilled in managing configuration, deployments, observability, handling and resolving incidents, including root cause analysis, managing and operating large-scale systems scalability, availability and performance
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with development and operations teams.

 

Software skills

• Skilled in languages like Python, Go, Java, or Ruby, and scripting skills in Bash or PowerShell.
• Skilled in software engineering practices for full SDLC, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI), testing, and operations.
• Skilled in building sophisticated software systems end-to-end which have been efficiently delivered and operated in production, should understand security and privacy standard methodologies as well as how to properly supervise, log, and alarm production systems.

 

Infrastructure skills

• Skilled knowledge of Linux/Unix systems, including system configuration, networking, and debugging.
• Expert in building and scaling infrastructure services using Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure
• Skilled with infrastructure tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or Terraform for infrastructure as code, monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) and logging systems (e.g., ELK stack).
• Skilled in the understanding of using core cloud application infrastructure services including identity platforms, networking, storage, databases, containers, and serverless
• Skillful knowledge of databases, such as relational, graph, document, and key-value, including performance tuning and improvement.

 

Skills that set you apart

• Possess a passion for mentoring and coaching engineers in both technical and soft skills

Travel Requirement

No travel is expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Agility core practices, Agility core practices, Analytics, API and platform design, Business Analysis, Cloud Platforms, Coaching, Communication, Configuration management and release, Continuous deployment and release, Data Structures and Algorithms (Inactive), Digital Project Management, Documentation and knowledge sharing, Facilitation, Information Security, iOS and Android development, Mentoring, Metrics definition and instrumentation, NoSql data modelling, Relational Data Modelling, Risk Management, Scripting, Service operations and resiliency, Software Design and Development, Source control and code management {+ 4 more}

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.

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