Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Get to Know the Team

Join the DevTools team at Grab where we focus on cloud engineering and developer platforms. Our mission is to build automation and tooling that empower our platform and development teams to operate effectively securely and at scale. We are a team of DevOps and infrastructure engineers dedicated to making a lasting impact on one of the largest cloud deployments in the region.

Get to Know the Role

We are seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to drive complex platform engineering initiatives end-to-end. You will report to the Engineering Manager and work onsite in Petaling Jaya Malaysia. This is a hands-on technical role where you will independently deliver critical projects influence architectural direction and manage stakeholders across engineering security and platform teams.

As a Senior Engineer you will not only contribute technically but also contribute directly to architecture decisions own delivery end to end mentor team members drive best practices and act as a trusted advisor on cloud automation infrastructure reliability and DevOps culture.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Automation at Scale: Design and implement automation frameworks for cloud operations including account/subscription creation secrets management monitoring/logging and policy guardrails.
• CI/CD Ownership: Architect optimize and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab Jenkins Spinnaker etc.) to enable secure scalable and reliable software delivery.
• Cloud Engineering: Manage and scale large deployments in AWS (preferred) Azure or GCP including Kubernetes clusters etc.
• Innovation & Thought Leadership: Identify and introduce new tools frameworks and practices that drive efficiency and developer self-service with an automation-first mindset.
• Mentorship & Guidance: Coach junior engineers lead technical reviews and foster adoption of clean architecture and DevOps/SRE best practices across teams.
• Reliability & Security: Work with SRE and security teams to embed automated guardrails enforce compliance and improve reliability of mission-critical systems.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with product infrastructure and security stakeholders to align solutions with developer agility business priorities and compliance needs.
• End-to-End Delivery: Lead the design and rollout of large-scale infrastructure and developer platform initiatives with minimal supervision ensuring measurable impact.

Qualifications :

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of hands-on experience in DevOps Cloud Engineering or Platform Engineering with proven ability to independently deliver complex projects.
• Proficient in deploying public cloud services in AWS Azure or GCP.
• Understanding of complex platform engineering concepts around cloud infrastructure automation and integration.
• Strong Unix/Linux skills including scripting (Python shell or similar) system administration and troubleshooting in distributed environments.
• Experience designing resilient architectures for microservices container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS/AKS).
• Ability to align engineering solutions with developer experience business needs and long-term platform goals.
• Comfortable working with distributed teams managing stakeholders and mentoring junior engineers.
• You have experience engaging with AI tools and emerging technologies to enhance productivity improve workflows and contribute new ideas.

Additional Information :

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through lifes challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and lifes demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality ethnicity race religion age gender family commitments physical and mental impairments or disabilities and other attributes that make them unique.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time