Abacus Strategic Advisory Hiring! Full Time Chief Technology Officer in WP Kuala Lumpur - Ricebowl

We are looking for an experienced and visionary technology leader to own the company's technology strategy, product development, engineering team, and infrastructure architecture. This role sets the technical roadmap, drives innovation, and aligns technology with business goals at the strategic level, while also architecting large-scale distributed systems, multi-cloud infrastructure, and security/disaster-recovery frameworks. The role carries ultimate technical responsibility for the company's overall technical capability and system stability.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

• 8+ years of software development / operations / SRE / architecture experience; 3+ years leading engineering teams

• Deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems, multi-cloud architecture, container orchestration (K8s), and security & DR design

• Mastery of automation and end-to-end IaC; strong in backend & frontend architecture, DevOps / CI-CD, database design, and system scalability

• Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience (AWS / Azure / GCP / Alibaba Cloud, etc.)

• Strong technical decision-making, architecture planning, and cross-team influence; excellent leadership and communication skills

• Experience with AI / Web3 / Fintech / SaaS

• Lead and oversee the company's overall technology strategy, roadmap, and evolution

• Build, manage, and mentor engineering and Operations/SRE teams; drive major architecture decisions and technical reviews

• Collaborate with founders and management on product direction; drive product development from concept to deployment

• Infrastructure Automation & Architecture: define organization-level IaC (Terraform, Ansible) and automation standards and tooling; design scalable, reusable automation systems that eliminate manual-ops bottlenecks at the architectural level

• System & Application Architecture: own end-to-end architecture design and technology selection across multiple stacks (Java, Python, Go, PHP, Node.js); define microservices, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and service-governance strategies

• Cloud & Multi-Cloud Strategy: design enterprise cloud architecture and multi-cloud/hybrid-cloud strategy (Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Huawei Cloud, AWS); own capacity planning, cost optimization (FinOps), and high-availability design

• CDN & Global Acceleration: design CDN and edge-acceleration architecture (multi-CDN scheduling domestically, overseas acceleration); define traffic-scheduling, protection, and HA standards

• Domain, Certificate & Security Systems: plan the organization's domain and DNS architecture and full-lifecycle certificate management; design the overall security-protection architecture (defense-in-depth, zero-trust, WAF, DDoS mitigation) and hold ultimate technical responsibility for security incidents

• DevOps Strategy & Platform Engineering: lead DevOps modernization and platform-engineering initiatives; design enterprise CI/CD platforms and containerization/orchestration architecture to improve engineering effectiveness and release quality

• Network & Security Architecture: design overall network and zero-trust/remote-access architecture (firewalls, proxies, OpenVPN, WireGuard, SD-WAN); define security baselines and compliance requirements (ISO, etc.)

• Observability & Reliability: design enterprise observability (metrics, logging, tracing); define SLOs/SLIs; lead capacity planning, performance optimization, and reliability governance (chaos engineering, failure drills)

• Data & Storage Architecture: design database and storage architecture (sharding, read-write splitting, multi-active, backup DR); define data reliability and consistency standards

• Business Continuity & DR: design enterprise backup, disaster-recovery, and business-continuity (BCP/DR) architecture; define RTO/RPO targets to ensure resilience of critical business

• Manage technical budgets and vendor relationships; establish engineering best practices and processes

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