Hays Hiring! Full Time Lead, Platform Engineering in Federal Territory - Ricebowl

A newly created Lead, Platform Engineering role in KL!

Your new company

You will be joining a leading regional technology-driven organisation with a significant presence across Asia, operating complex enterprise technology environments that support mission-critical services. As the organisation continues to strengthen its technology capabilities in Kuala Lumpur, it is expanding its infrastructure leadership team to drive platform reliability, infrastructure modernisation, automation and operational excellence across its regional operations.

Your new role

• As the Lead of Platform Engineering, you will provide both technical and people leadership across enterprise OS Platform Services, covering Windows, Unix and Linux environments.
  
• Lead a 24x7 infrastructure team supporting mission-critical enterprise platforms.
  
• Own platform availability, service reliability, operational excellence and continuous improvement.
• Lead major incidents, service recovery, root cause analysis and problem management.
• Drive OS engineering, patching, vulnerability remediation, security hardening and lifecycle management.
• Support infrastructure modernisation and transformation initiatives.
• Lead, coach and develop infrastructure professionals across a multi-location environment.
• Act as a key infrastructure leadership presence in Kuala Lumpur, driving employee engagement and collaboration.
• Partner with infrastructure, application and cybersecurity teams to deliver secure and resilient services.

What you'll need to succeed

• Minimum of 12+ years' experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Platform Engineering or IT Infrastructure Operations.
• Minimum of 5+ years' leadership experience managing enterprise infrastructure teams in a 24x7 environment.
• Strong expertise in Unix/Linux, preferably RHEL, including OS engineering, patching, security hardening and lifecycle management.
• Experience managing large-scale, mission-critical infrastructure environments.
• Strong background in automation, infrastructure transformation and platform standardisation.
• Proven experience leading major incidents, crisis management and service recovery.
• Experience managing geographically distributed or regional teams.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and people leadership skills.
• Exposure to VMware, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Nutanix, Public Cloud, Storage and Backup technologies would be advantageous.
• Relevant certifications such as RHCE, Microsoft, VMware VCP or ITIL are beneficial.

What you'll get in return

This is an opportunity to step into a high-impact infrastructure leadership role where you will combine hands-on technology leadership with people management. You will have the opportunity to lead large-scale enterprise infrastructure operations while influencing automation, platform modernisation, operational resilience and engineering transformation across a complex regional technology environment. If you are an experienced Infrastructure / Platform Engineering leader with strong Linux expertise who enjoys balancing technology, transformation and people leadership, this could be an excellent next step.

What you need to do now

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