Malaysian Communications And Multimedia Commission Hiring! Full Time Specialist, Sovereign Cloud Architect in Selangor - Ricebowl

Job Summary

Design and govern the cloud orchestration and application architecture of the sovereign AI cloud, setting reference designs, standards and technology direction, ensuring the infrastructure and application delivery teams build to an approved, secure and scalable architecture.

Job Responsibilities:

1. Develop and maintain the target cloud, orchestration and application architecture, including reference architectures and High-Level Designs (HLD), for the sovereign AI cloud platform.

2. Define standards and design patterns for workload placement, container orchestration, scaling and resilience to guide the infrastructure and delivery teams.

3. Review and approve designs submitted by the Cloud Infrastructure Engineer and the App Delivery and Releases Engineer, ensuring conformance to approved architecture.

4. Specify non-functional requirements (availability, performance, scalability, disaster recovery) to ensure solutions meet service expectations.

5. Translate sovereign security and compliance requirements (data residency, workload isolation) into architecture constraints in consultation with Information Security.

6. Evaluate technologies, platforms and vendor solutions, and recommend selections that balance fit, cost and avoidance of vendor lock-in.

7. Provide technical architecture, capacity and cost inputs for proposal papers, business cases and technology roadmaps.

8. Maintain architecture documentation, decision records and diagrams to reflect approved and as-built cloud architecture designs.

Qualification & Work Experience

1. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field from a recognized university.

2. Possess professional certification e.g. AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Solutions Architect, CKA, TOGAF or equivalent.

3. 8 years in cloud architecture, container orchestration platforms and application platform design, including at least 2 years designing production cloud or hybrid solutions.

Technical Competencies/Skills

• Cloud and hybrid architecture design (HLD formulation and review).

• Container orchestration architecture (Kubernetes and equivalent platforms).

• Infrastructure-as-code and automation design principles.

• Cloud-native application architecture (microservices, APIs, CI/CD patterns).

• Security-by-design for sovereign and isolated cloud environments.

• High availability, disaster recovery and capacity planning.

Behavioral Competencies/Skills

• Structured, strategic thinking and sound technical judgement.

• Technical leadership and influence across teams and vendors.

• Clear documentation and communication of complex designs

Candidate must be willing to work in Cyberjaya and Malaysian Citizen.