- Kuala Lumpur
- Engineering – Software (Information & Communication Technology)
- Full time
- RM 15,000 – RM 16,000 per month
Position: Lead Sec DevOps engineer
Location: Kuala Lumpur ( Hybrid )
Job Family: IT
Johnson Matthey, a FTSE 250 global leader in sustainable technologies, specialises in catalysis, precious metal products, chemicals, and process technology. With over 200 years of innovation and success, we operate in more than 30 countries with a team of 12,600+ dedicated professionals.
Be part of our journey “Together for a cleaner, healthier world” and contribute to the next chapter of our growth story.
Key Responsibilities
· Lead the design, delivery, and evolution of scalable, secure-by-default infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines that enable fast, reliable software delivery.
· Define and own the DevOps strategy and roadmap, aligning with platform engineering, product development, and security teams.
· Drive automation-first initiatives across infrastructure provisioning, deployments, monitoring, and incident response.
· Establish best practices for cloud-native platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, serverless, microservices) including observability, performance, cost optimization, and governance.
· Proactively reduce organizational risk by embedding resilience, compliance, and security controls into infrastructure, pipelines, and workflows.
· Serve as the technical authority for DevOps and platform reliability, contributing to architecture reviews, operational readiness, and incident management.
· Enable developers through scaffolding, self-service platforms, and golden paths (e.g., Backstage, internal developer portals), improving productivity while maintaining standards.
· Partner with Security Operations and Vulnerability Management to integrate SecDevOps practices into pipelines, tooling, and infrastructure.
· Mentor engineers across teams on DevOps practices, fostering a culture of ownership, automation, and continuous improvement.
· Collaborate with leadership and stakeholders to balance speed, security, reliability, and cost efficiency in system design and operations.
· Refine incident response and postmortem processes, ensuring lessons learned improve resilience, tooling, and processes.
Technical Capability
· 5+ years in DevOps, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering, including experience in a lead or senior role.
· Proven track record of building and scaling cloud-native platforms at enterprise scale (ideally Azure).
· Expert in Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation) and Kubernetes ecosystem (Helm, Operators, GitOps).
· Strong experience with CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Argo, etc.) and pipeline security.
· Proficient in at least one scripting or programming language (Python, Go, Bash, etc.).
· Hands-on experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, etc.) and automation frameworks.
· Familiarity with developer enablement tooling such as Backstage, scaffolding frameworks, and internal developer platforms.
· Familiarity with FinOps and cost optimization in cloud environments.
· Exposure to security tooling (e.g. Wiz, Snyk, Trivy, Checkov, Vault, Prisma, SonarQube, etc.) and compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR).
· Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders.
APPLY AT :- JOBSTREET MALAYSIA – JOHNSON MATTHEY SERVICES