
Senior Cloud Engineer – AWS & Data Lake DBA
- Pulau Pinang
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage and maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS), focusing on reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency.
- Build and maintain scalable, secure, and cost-effective Data Lake architecture using services such as Amazon S3, AWS Glue, Lake Formation, and Athena.
- Administer large-scale database platforms (RDS, Redshift, EMR, DynamoDB) and perform backup/recovery, tuning, and upgrades.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and operations using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
- Design and operate ETL/ELT pipelines for ingesting data into the data lake.
- Ensure data quality, security, access control, and compliance for all lake-stored data.
- Ensure data platforms are highly available, backed up, and meet disaster recovery requirements.
- Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions for infrastructure, pipelines and data workloads.
- Participate in on-call rotation for cloud operations and database issue escalation.
- Work cross-functionally with data engineers, developers, and product teams to meet analytical and operational data needs.
- Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance and best practices are followed for data protection and cloud resource access.
- Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Over 5 years of experience in cloud operations, with a focus on AWS.
- In-depth knowledge of AWS services including S3, Glue, Lake Formation, Redshift, Athena, EMR, IAM, and CloudWatch.
- Solid hands-on experience with designing and managing Data Lake and big data analytics platforms.
- Strong experience in managing relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB).
- Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or Go.
- Familiar with tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Git, etc.
- Experienced in setting up monitoring and cost optimization for AWS-based infrastructure.
- Understanding of security, encryption, data governance, and compliance best practices for public cloud data platforms.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional.
- AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty or Database – Specialty.
- Experience with modern data stack tools (e.g., Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, dbt) is a plus.
- Kubernetes or containerization certification is preferred.
- A culture that values authenticity and diversity of thoughts and backgrounds;
- An inclusive and respectable environment with open workspaces and exciting start-up spirit;
- Fast-growing company with the chance to network with industrial pioneers and enthusiasts;
- Ability to contribute directly and make an impact on the future of the digital asset industry;
- Involvement in new projects, developing processes/systems;
- Personal accountability, autonomy, fast growth, and learning opportunities;
- Attractive welfare benefits and developmental opportunities such as training and mentoring.