DevOps Engineer

Overview

BJAK is building the next-generation insurance and financial services platform - designed to be intuitive, intelligent and personalised. Presently we are the largest insurance platform in Southeast Asia, and expanding globally with a strong focus on technology and product superiority. We are looking for talented, ownership-minded individuals.

In return, expect growth, trust, autonomy, rewards, and impact.

you will be responsible for building and operating the infrastructure that enables BJAK’s engineering teams to ship reliably, securely, and at scale.

Requirements

work closely with developers to design deployment workflows, maintain production systems, and continuously improve reliability, performance, and security across our cloud environments. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys owning systems end-to-end, solving real production issues, and building platforms that support fast-moving product teams.What you'll be doing: - Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support automated build, test, and deployment workflows - Manage, operate, and scale Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GKE, AKS, or self-managed) - Provision and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation) - Improve system reliability, performance, availability, and scalability - Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog) - Support zero-downtime deployments, rollbacks, and release strategies - Troubleshoot production issues including latency, errors (e.g. 502s), pod crashes, OOMs, and networking problems - Implement and enforce security best practices, including secrets management, IAM, and network policies - Collaborate closely with software engineers on deployment strategies, system design, and operational readiness What you'll need: - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience - Strong experience with Linux environments and shell scripting - Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes - Experience working with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure) - Solid understanding of CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.) - Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code - Good understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing) - Comfortable debugging and resolving production issues - Strong understanding of performance, scalability, and reliability principles - Experience with backend or web application environments - Proficiency in at least one scripting language such as Bash or Python - Ability to work independently, take ownership, and drive initiatives end-to-end

Experience with Groovy - Familiarity with frontend frameworks such as React or AngularJS - Familiarity with JavaScript / TypeScript - Experience working with Node.js - Familiarity with MongoDB

Benefits

Work on production systems that operate at real scale ac