# Lead Infrastructure Engineer, Managed Kubernetes Platform (MEKS)

**Company**: Grab
**Location**: Jakarta
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp, providing various services such as food delivery, financial management, and transportation.

The Lead Infrastructure Engineer – Kubernetes & Service Mesh is a lead technical authority within the MEKS platform team. This role is responsible for designing, building, and operating the high-scale container and service mesh infrastructure.

**Responsibilities**

- Architecture & Platform Engineering:

- Design and deploy production-grade Istio service mesh infrastructure.

- Architect and manage large-scale AWS EKS clusters.

- Establish standardized cluster templates, namespaces, network policies, RBAC, and policy-as-code guardrails.

- Developer Experience & Self-Service Tooling:

- Build and maintain self-service APIs, GitOps workflows, and automation.

- Partner with application teams to guide architectural choices and streamline workload migrations.

- Create comprehensive platform documentation and reference architectures.

- Reliability, Observability & Incident Response:

- Implement telemetry, metrics, distributed tracing, and centralized logging.

- Establish and uphold technical SLOs/SLAs.

- Act as a senior technical point of escalation for complex platform outages.

- Technical Mentorship & Collaboration:

- Mentor mid-level and senior engineers on modern Kubernetes and mesh architecture best practices.

- Collaborate with Security, SRE, Networking, and Cloud Infrastructure teams.

**Qualifications**

- 10+ years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or cloud platforms.

- Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes architecture and container technologies.

- Hands-on experience across major cloud platforms and multi-cloud management.

- Proven ability to design and implement automated CI/CD pipelines and modern GitOps practices.

- Solid foundation in Linux/Unix system administration and networking principles.

**Benefits**

- Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.

- GrabFlex benefits package.

- Parental and Birthday leave.

- Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave.

- Confidential Grabber Assistance Programme.

- FlexWork arrangements.

## Skills

### Required
- Kubernetes
- Istio
- AWS EKS
- Terraform
- Ansible
- CloudFormation
- Python
- Bash
- Go
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- ELK Stack

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