# Lead Software Reliability Engineer, Defence

**Company**: Grab
**Location**: Beijing
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Lead Software Reliability Engineer, you will drive the infrastructure and operational tooling that support GrabDefence. You will partner closely with Grab's central site reliability engineering (SRE) team to manage Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources, support infrastructure migrations and make operations easier through automation and AI-enabled tools.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform:

- Design and manage AWS infrastructure,including networking, storage, compute and databases,to support reliable and scalable GrabDefence services.

- Partner with the central SRE team to deliver infrastructure capabilities, clarify ownership and align operational practices across shared and GrabDefence environments.

- Plan and execute infrastructure maintenance and migrations, managing dependencies and rollback plans to minimise service disruption.

- Implement infrastructure policies and access controls, including identity and access management, least-privilege permissions and configuration guardrails.

- Build and improve infrastructure management and orchestration tools that make provisioning, changes and routine operations easier and more consistent.

- Use generative AI and develop AI-enabled tooling where appropriate to accelerate investigations, documentation and operational workflows, with safeguards and human review for consequential changes.

- Improve reliability through monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis and automation that reduces recurring operational work.

QUALIFICATIONS: What Essential Skills You Will Need:

- At least 8 years of experience in software engineering, site reliability engineering or infrastructure engineering, including hands-on responsibility for production systems.

- Deep hands-on experience designing, operating and troubleshooting AWS infrastructure across networking, storage, compute and managed databases.

- Experience implementing AWS identity and access management, security policies and least-privilege access controls.

- Experience using infrastructure as code to provision, maintain and safely change cloud resources.

- Experience programming in a language such as Python or Go to build automation, operational tools or infrastructure platforms.

- Experience leading production infrastructure changes or migrations, including risk assessment, monitoring, incident response and recovery.

- Experience engaging with AI tools and emerging technologies to enhance productivity, improve workflows and contribute new ideas.

Life at Grab: We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

- Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.

- GrabFlex, to create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.

- Parental and Birthday leave, and Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave.

- Confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.

- FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours.

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## Skills

### Required
- AWS
- Python
- Go
- site reliability engineering
- infrastructure engineering
- software engineering
- AI tools
- emerging technologies

### Nice to have
- self-service infrastructure platforms
- orchestration tools
- CI/CD tools
- non-relational / noSQL database
- AI-agent workflows

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