Cloud Architect

Cloud Architect – Pioneer Fintech Team | Malaysia

We are currently assisting a high-growth fintech and digital payments company in establishing its pioneer technology team in Malaysia .

As part of this expansion, we are looking for an experienced Cloud Architect with strong cloud infrastructure expertise and exposure to the fintech, digital payments or financial technology ecosystem .

This is an opportunity to join an early-stage Malaysia team while working within a regional technology environment supporting business-critical financial platforms.

Key Requirements

• Experience within Fintech, Digital Payments, Banking Technology, Financial Services Technology or related transaction-based platforms
• Strong architecture experience across public cloud environments
• Professional cloud architecture certification in AWS, Alibaba Cloud or Oracle Cloud (OCI)
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD and cloud-native architecture
• Experience designing secure, scalable and highly available production infrastructure
• Strong communication skills in English and Chinese for regional and cross-border stakeholder collaboration

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, design, build and manage secure and scalable cloud environments across public cloud platforms.
• Design cloud architecture covering networking, compute, storage, security and shared platform services.
• Architect and manage cloud landing zones and multi-tier application environments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation and Ansible.
• Integrate IaC with CI/CD pipelines to enable automated infrastructure provisioning and minimise manual intervention.
• Design and support containerised environments using Docker and Kubernetes .
• Build highly available and resilient infrastructure capable of supporting business-critical financial applications.
• Monitor and optimise infrastructure performance, scalability, reliability and cloud costs.
• Work closely with Engineering, Security and Technology Operations teams to align infrastructure architecture with application and business requirements.
• Support incident management, root-cause analysis, disaster recovery and infrastructure resilience.
• Ensure cloud environments adhere to relevant security, governance and compliance standards.
• Continuously evaluate new cloud technologies and identify opportunities to improve automation, reliability and operational efficiency.

Minimum Qualifications

• Proven experience in Cloud Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, DevOps Infrastructure or a related field .
• Strong experience with at least one major public cloud platform, ideally AWS, Oracle Cloud (OCI) or Alibaba Cloud .
• Hands-on experience designing and managing cloud landing zones and production-grade cloud environments.
• Professional working proficiency in both Mandarin and English is required for cross-border technical discussions and stakeholder collaboration.
• Strong experience with Terraform, CloudFormation or equivalent Infrastructure as Code technologies .
• Experience integrating infrastructure automation with CI/CD pipelines , ideally GitLab or similar platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Experience supporting highly available, scalable and business-critical production environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis capabilities.
• Experience working within fintech, digital payments, banking technology or financial services environments .