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GCIO

Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

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senior full-time Guangzhou, Guangdong

First indexed 24 Oct 2026

Description

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist.

Principal responsibilities:

  • Architecture design on private cloud solution and integration with ecosystem
  • Provide end-to-end platform engineering and lifecycle management on Internal Kubernetes Platform
  • Build tools and automation to manage platform infrastructure and services lifecycle
  • Improve reliability, quality, and time to upgrade cluster and service versions
  • Measure and optimize system performance and resource utilization, and plan for future capacity
  • Build dashboards and visualizations to users for transparency of platform status
  • Define system alerts and automate responses where possible
  • Provide operational support and engineering for multiple software development teams
  • Gather and analyze metrics from cluster components and services to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
  • Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
  • Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
  • Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives

Requirements:

  • Experience of architecture design of large scale distributed system and cloud native system
  • Administrative Knowledge with practical hands-on of container and Kubernetes platforms engineering and management
  • Core competencies: Linux OS, Container, Kubernetes and K8S native system like Istio, engineering skillset to manage infrastructure as code
  • Ability to script in one or more shell languages, such as Bash or PowerShell
  • Ability to program (structured and OO) with one or more high level languages, such as Python or Golang
  • Experience with infrastructure support and operation automation following software lifecycle practice
  • A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks
  • Accept flexible working hour
  • Good written and reading in English
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