Carsome Group
LEAD SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Sre
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles
- Strong experience with GCP services (GKE, Cloud SQL, Memorystore, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage) or equivalent AWS services (EKS, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS/SNS, S3)
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes administration, networking, and troubleshooting
- Proficiency in scripting (Bash, Python) and IaC tools (Terraform)
- Experience with message brokers (Kafka) and caching systems (Redis)
- Hands-on experience with monitoring and logging stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Loki)
- Understanding of networking concepts, load balancing, and security best practices
- Experience with GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD or similar pipeline tools
Nice to have
- Experience with cost optimization in cloud environments
- Familiarity with service mesh (Istio) or API gateways
- Background in high-traffic e-commerce or marketplace platforms
- Experience with PHP (fpm/nginx), Node.js, and Golang application deployments
- Knowledge of database administration and query optimization
Full description
About the Role
We're looking for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to join our small, dynamic DevOps team responsible for managing our cloud environment. You'll work on infrastructure supporting 120+ microservices across 150+ nodes, playing a critical role in maintaining high availability and reliability as we scale for IPO.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Manage and optimize Kubernetes (GKE) clusters, including deployment strategies, autoscaling, and resource optimization
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI
- Implement and manage observability solutions (Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, Prometheus)
- Troubleshoot production issues across distributed systems including Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch and MySQL/PostgreSQL
- Develop infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
- Implement backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies
- Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment reliability and reduce incident response times
- Document runbooks, architecture decisions, and operational procedures
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident management
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles
- Strong experience with GCP services (GKE, Cloud SQL, Memorystore, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage) or equivalent AWS services (EKS, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS/SNS, S3)
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes administration, networking, and troubleshooting
- Proficiency in scripting (Bash, Python) and IaC tools (Terraform)
- Experience with message brokers (Kafka) and caching systems (Redis)
- Hands-on experience with monitoring and logging stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Loki)
- Understanding of networking concepts, load balancing, and security best practices
- Experience with GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD or similar pipeline tools
Nice to Have
- Experience with cost optimization in cloud environments
- Familiarity with service mesh (Istio) or API gateways
- Background in high-traffic e-commerce or marketplace platforms
- Experience with PHP (fpm/nginx), Node.js, and Golang application deployments
- Knowledge of database administration and query optimization