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.