Closing Date : 30/11/2025

Solutions Architect - Cloud Platforms

We are Malaysia’s leading Credit Reporting Agency (CRA) and we are aggressively expanding our business, and looking for dynamic, driven and motivated individuals to join our team. Our Direct-To-Consumer segment (D2C), is one of our fastest growing product areas in the market, with an abundance of expansion plans and innovative ideas on hand.

ROLE OVERVIEW

The Solutions Architect – Cloud Platforms serves as the technical lead driving the organization’s cloud strategy and architecture across infrastructure, applications, and operations. This role focuses heavily on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and modern cloud practices, ensuring scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions are delivered to support innovation, transformation, and business agility.

The role will also be expected to contribute to technical documentation, mentor team members, and participate in project planning and implementation.


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Define and continuously refine the company’s cloud computing strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and emerging technologies.

2. Act as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for cloud-native solutioning, providing technical leadership in R&D, architecture design, and evaluation of new cloud services

3. Lead TCO analysis and architectural reviews for infrastructure, network, and application workloads to guide cloud adoption and optimization decisions.

4. Oversee and foster innovation on cloud technologies including account provisioning, compute, storage, databases, serverless, and network ensuring compliance with security, performance, operational best practices and well architected frameworks.

5. Architect and implement high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), and observability solutions using AWS-native services.

6. Develop and maintain reference architectures and cloud engineering standards to guide technology selection and implementation across teams.

7. Provide strategic advisory for cloud modernization, digital transformation, and DevOps/ SRE enablement initiatives and lead onboarding of new services to cloud using IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and XaaS models, ensuring scalability, security, and compliance.

8. Participate in annual technology planning, identifying areas for innovation, technical debt remediation, and architectural refresh and recommend cost optimization strategies, including billing transparency, contract renewals, and usage tracking.

9. Support project planning, quality assurance, and stakeholder engagement across business and technology domains.

10. Define and enforce cloud governance frameworks, including infrastructure policies & guardrails, security guidelines, and operational SOPs.

11. Design fault-tolerant, scalable, and high-performance architectures for both monolithic and microservices-based applications.

12. Ensure adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CDK to automate provisioning and configuration.


Cloud Architecture & Engineering

1. Lead onboarding new services to cloud using IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and XaaS models, ensuring scalability, security, and compliance.

2. Architect and implement high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), and observability solutions using AWS-native services:

§ Amazon EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda

§ Amazon RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB

§ Amazon S3, S# Glacier, EFS, FSx

§ CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Backup, Route 53

§ API Gateway, App Mesh, CloudFront, etc

3. Define and enforce cloud governance frameworks, including infrastructure policies, security guidelines, and operational SOPs.

4. Design fault-tolerant, scalable, and high-performance architectures for both monolithic and microservices-based applications.

5. Ensure adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CDK to automate provisioning and configuration and foster adoption of integration to CI/CD pipelines using tools like CodePipeline, CodeBuild, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.

6. Collaborate with DevOps and SRE teams to embed DevSecOps practices, automated testing, and monitoring into the delivery lifecycle.

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE SUCCESSFUL

Qualifications

· A Bachelor’s Degree, Post Graduate Diploma, or Professional Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
· AWS certifications (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect) preferred.

Work Experience

· 6-7 years’ experience in managing an environment running on hybrid enablers (Data Centre and Cloud Premises, preferably VMWare and AWS technologies)
· 7+ years of experience in cloud architecture and engineering, with a strong focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
· Experience working in the financial industry is a plus.

Skills & Competencies

· The candidate is expected to have strong experience and understanding on Infrastructure & Network management across datacentres and cloud computing landscape (WINTEL/ LINUX, LDAP, DNS, DHCP, CDN, Load Balancers, Clustering, Email Gateway, IPVPN, SFTP, etc) especially in 24x7 operations environment.
· Strong organizational and interpersonal skills and the ability to lead complex technical decision making as well as maintain complex technical documentation.
· Experience with project tracking and workflow tools such as Jira, VSTS, Trello, etc.
· Experience in purchasing, contracts, commercial engagement, project tender processes (RFP, RFQ, etc)
· Demonstrated leadership and the ability to provide advisory, guidance and coaching to team members on new approaches, products and technologies.
· Experience addressing audit, compliance, and security requirements to meet organization standards, especially in driving implementation and preventive measures.