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Platform Engineer

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  • Build, automate and scale secure highly available platforms; own CI/CD, IaC, Kubernetes, on-call and incidents.
  • Great Place to Work® certified Australian telco connecting hundreds of thousands across APAC.
  • Tailored training, cross-APAC exposure!

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Kuala Lumpur

Job Description

Job Description

If you are looking to join an Australian Telco company recognized as Australia’s most trusted Telco that upholds value and focus on continuously delivering excellent results and customer experience, then this is for you!

The Opportunity

As our Platform Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in designing, building, and scaling our core platforms to keep our systems resilient, efficient, and secure.

Why join us?

  • Proudly Great Place to Work® certified
  • Celebrate globally: Company trips (2025: Hong Kong, 2024: Thailand), Culture Champs, Year-end parties, leadership awards & more
  • Grow with stability: 100+ in our 10-Year Club by 2025
  • Dynamic talent network: 2,000+ across APAC and beyond
  • Competitive compensation with annual reviews
  • Comprehensive medical care for you and your family
  • Generous paid leave because work-life balance matters
  • Level up with LinkedIn Learning and tailored training
  • Flexible work setup

Staff Testimonial

“I’m proud to be part of a team where our work supports hundreds of thousands of Australians with reliable connectivity every day — and where quality service and customer trust truly matter.” – Delivery Lead, ASW Philippines.

What You'll Do

  • Maintain the security, reliability, and availability of client's critical systems infrastructure.
  • Design and evolve platform architecture to deliver scalable, observable and secure solutions for internal and external customers.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams across a broad range of experience and skills to deliver business outcomes.
  • Deliver highly available, scalable and resilient platforms and services to support business growth and initiatives.
  • Build, automate and enhance on-premises containerised & virtualised workloads, with a strong focus on infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Support development teams by providing platform capabilities, tooling and environments that accelerate delivery.
  • Champion reliability practices, including monitoring, alerting, incident response and post-incident reviews.
  • Continuously improve platform performance, cost-efficiency and developer experience through proactive engineering and feedback loops.
  • Contribute to technical documentation, standards and knowledge sharing across the engineering organisation.
  • Act as an escalation point and provide technical guidance and support to other members of the systems team, helping resolve complex issues and drive continuous improvement.
  • Mentor and help develop junior team members through coaching, knowledge sharing, and technical training.
  • Act as an escalation point and provide technical guidance, mentoring, and training to other members of the systems team, helping resolve complex issues and grow team capability.
  • Take ownership of delivering assigned projects and business outcomes end-to-end, applying established architectural and design patterns with minimal oversight.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure platform reliability and rapid response to critical incidents.

Key Criteria

  • Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
  • Expert Linux system administration with proven experience operating highly available, distributed production systems in a Telco environment.
  • Hands-on Kubernetes expertise (on-prem/upstream), including cluster lifecycle management, performance tuning, service mesh (Istio, Linkerd), and multi-cluster architectures.
  • Advanced Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm) and GitOps CI/CD tooling (ArgoCD, Flux) for continuous delivery at scale.
  • Deep knowledge of containerized and virtualized networking concepts (BGP, Load Balancing, Ingress/Egress, eBPF/XDP, VPP).
  • Security-first design mindset (encryption, segmentation, compliance) alongside full observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger).
  • Proficiency in Go or Python for scripting, with a strong passion for CNCF/OCI open-source standards and continuous improvement.

Work setup:

  • Manila (BGC, Taguig): Australian hours (6:00am–3:00pm PHT) with a flexible work arrangement.
  • Ho Chi Minh City (Ree Tower, Xom Chieu Ward): Vietnam business hours (8 am – 5 pm) with a flexible work arrangement.
  • Kuala Lumpur (Mid Valley City): Australian hours (6 am–3 pm PHT) with a flexible work arrangement.

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Company Benefits

Medical Coverage

Comprehensive health insurance is provided for employees and their dependents

Professional Development

AS White Global encourages personal growth by providing access to online courses through platforms like Coursera and LinkedIn Learning

Team Activities

Regular team outings, company events, and annual trips are organized to foster a collaborative and enjoyable work environment.

Competitive Remuneration

The company offers competitive salaries with opportunities for annual reviews.


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As White Sdn. Bhd.

We’re an Australian company specialising in international staffing solutions. Since 2011, ASW Global has been disrupting the remote staffing industry by bridging the gap in finding, integrating and managing the best possible talent. With our Head Office in Sydney; we have contemporary offices located in Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia. Sourcing from a high performing pool of qualified professionals, we’re able...