Director / Senior Manager, Infrastructure (Cloud)

About iPrice Group

Think shopping. Think iPrice.

Southeast Asia is seen as the e-commerce haven, where new online stores are popping up every day. As such, shoppers are faced with more and more websites in their search for what they want and engage with retailers online. All this can get a little confusing.
With this in mind, iPrice was set up to offer shoppers the widest selection of products and brands, provided by hundreds of partners in Southeast Asia – all made available on one shopping website. No more having to search through the plethora of websites.
Going through many different websites often takes time. iPrice recognized the importance of saving time and money and has provided shoppers the benefit of comparing prices of products from its partners. Other useful information like delivery time and costs, payment options and good coupon deals are also readily available.
iPrice has in place a stringent selection process of acquiring partners in order to offer shoppers high quality and reliable partners. This is to ensure that online purchases are made in a safe environment.
With a click of a button, the avid shopper can now search for products, compare prices and save with great deals – all in one safe shopping site.

Position

• Ensure all services are at a high quality of health, reliability, availability and security, within our Service Level Objectives
• Define the blueprint for our architecture that easily allows daily deployments of any workload, consistently from development all the way to production
• Provide architectural input for system design to improve scalability, reliability and availability
• Set the budgets, plan ahead of required system capacity and drive infrastructure cost efficiency
• Own the relationships across all our cloud infrastructure providers and ensure the teams are working within the given constraints
• Set and drive the strategic direction and OKRs of our infrastructure partners and technologies
• Collaborate with engineering teams on their infrastructure needs, and advise them throughout the development lifecycle
• Drive process for incident management 
• Create easy-to-understand Service Level Objectives
• Lead the team to design, develop and manage monitoring tools to provide performance dashboards, alerts, and collect data required to proactively identify issues and/or recommend improvements
• Advocate and promote knowledge sharing and the “DevOps culture” across the engineering functions
• Coach, lead, develop your people to create a passionate can-do culture

Your qualification

• A Bachelor's Degree/Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related subject
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in managing infrastructure teams, preferably in start-ups
• Strong familiarity with deployment automation/configuration management tools like Chef, Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform
• Possess solid experience with AWS cloud services. Experience in GCP or Azure is a plus 
• Have extensive experience building scalable platforms leveraging containers in a production environment 
• Operated distributed data storage systems at scale, especially Elasticsearch and SQL Azure
• Operated big data processing and workflow tools such as Spark, Airflow 
• Have experience with logging and telemetry services
• Solid knowledge of continuous integration, continuous delivery, automated testing and all phases of the software development lifecycle
• Experience of working in an agile and multi-cultural environment across many SCRUM teams at the same time
• A Kaizen mindset and spirit of continuous improvement on a personal level and always up to date with the latest technology trends professionally
• Expertise in designing, analysing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills and a sense of drive 
• Highly organized and capable of providing appropriate technical leadership while requiring minimal day-to-day guidance

What we offer

• Comprehensive healthcare including outpatient/in-patient benefits for you and your family
• Work permit / visa coverage for expatriates to work in Malaysia
• Extra perks including claimable grab rides if you’re in the office past 7 pm; stocked pantry; subsidised vending machine/ snacks and plenty of iPrice events