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Principal Engineer - Hypervisors, Backup & UNIX Systems

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Job Description

Why PayNet / Why Now

  • Build the infrastructure behind Malaysia's national payments network, powering rails Malaysians use daily, including DuitNow, FPX, JomPAY, and MyDebit.
  • Operate at true national scale (PayNet reports 8.44B transactions processed in 2025), where architecture decisions materially affect uptime, speed, and trust.
  • Join a public-good operator that reinvests surplus back into making the country's payment infrastructures more resilient, competitive, and accessible.
  • Step in at an inflection point: PayNet has been shifting from legacy/private connectivity toward internet-based API connectivity and a cloud-based computing model, raising the bar for security and platform engineering.

TL; DR

  • Own the future-state infrastructure architecture behind Malaysia's most critical payment rails.
  • Lead large‑scale virtualization, automation, and migration initiatives with national impact.
  • Work on always‑on, mission‑critical systems where your decisions truly matter.
  • Combine deep technical ownership with long‑term platform strategy.

Why This Role Matters

  • Malaysia's core payment systems depend on resilient, low‑latency infrastructure at scale.
  • Infrastructure decisions here directly affect availability, security, and public trust.
  • This role reduces systemic risk while enabling growth, innovation, and automation.
  • Strong architecture leadership now prevents outages, bottlenecks, and technical debt later.

What You Will Actually Do

  • Own and shape PayNet's future‑state infrastructure architecture across compute, storage, virtualization, and backup.
  • Design and operate highly available, low‑latency virtualization platforms supporting mission‑critical payment systems.
  • Lead multi‑year migrations of core services (e.g., DuitNow, FPX, JomPAY) with minimal disruption.
  • Build automation frameworks that enable repeatable, secure, and scalable infrastructure operations.
  • Drive observability and performance management to ensure capacity, reliability, and uptime.
  • Act as technical lead across deployment, integration, and cross‑functional infrastructure initiatives.

Examples of This Role in Practice

  • Designing a new virtualization platform and migrating live payment services without customer impact.
  • Automating patching and hardening across hundreds of servers to reduce operational risk.
  • Diagnosing performance bottlenecks during peak transaction periods and resolving them permanently.
  • Partnering with security and network teams to implement resilient, compliant infrastructure designs.
  • Proactively scaling infrastructure ahead of national usage spikes or regulatory changes.

Required

What Will Help You Succeed

  • Strong hands‑on experience with RedHat Linux and Windows Server in production environments.
  • Proven ability to design and deploy highly available virtualization platforms from the ground up.
  • Experience automating infrastructure using tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
  • Practical experience with enterprise platforms such as Active Directory, DNS, LDAP, Jenkins, Terraform, and monitoring tools.

Helpful

  • Certifications such as RHCE or LPIC demonstrating advanced Linux expertise.
  • Experience in financial services or telecommunications with strict uptime and security requirements.
  • Exposure to AWS or GCP, particularly in hybrid infrastructure environments.
  • Familiarity with modern CI/CD, monitoring, and logging stacks (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, ELK).
  • Experience supporting enterprise application and web platforms (e.g., Nginx, HAProxy, JBoss, WebLogic).

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Job ID: 152342937

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