Principle Cloud Platform Engineer

Our Vision

At Rotate, we are revolutionising the air cargo industry through data-driven consulting and the development of innovative SaaS products. Our mission is to empower industry professionals to transform data into actionable insights, driving more effective commercial and strategic decision-making.

With offices in the Netherlands and Malaysia, our team of approximately 35 experts—including strategy consultants, air cargo specialists, and technology professionals—is committed to delivering practical solutions that create significant value for the industry.

About the Role

We are experiencing rapid growth and are seeking an experienced Principle Cloud Platform Engineer to take ownership of our infrastructure. This role includes maintaining our current platform while improving and extending it to meet future needs. You will have a lot of autonomy and responsibility on projects starting with design and finishing with the full implementation and adoption in the organization or with clients.

Our infrastructure is maintained and deployed using Terraform, and we leverage the AWS stack extensively, utilising services like EKS, Cognito, IAM, DocumentDB, CloudWatch, and more. When AWS services fall short, we integrate best-in-class technologies such as Databricks, Okta, GitHub, and ArgoCD.

As a Cloud Platform Engineer, you will manage these tools to ensure the availability, performance, security and scalability of Rotate’s services.

What You’ll Be Doing

In this role, you will play a pivotal part in developing and supporting our SaaS platform and Rotate’s operational infrastructure. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure for our SaaS platform.

• Collaborating with product teams and effectively communicating with management.

• Supporting operations by deploying and configuring infrastructure.

• Monitoring, troubleshooting, and ensuring the availability, security and performance of systems.

• Proactively improving and updating the platform to adhere to the latest security and performance standards.

What You Will Need

• 5+ years of experience as a Platform, DevOps or Cloud Engineer in a professional environment.

• You have hands-on experience with different AWS services (VPC, IAM, S3, EC2, Lambda, Cloud watch, KMS, RDS, EKS Mongo/DocumentDB, SQS)

• Experience with concepts like event-sourcing, infra structure as code (terraform), CICD, scrum, micro-services, SSO, RBAC

• Knowledge on Kubernetes, Docker, (R)DBMS (MongoDB), Databricks (Spark)

• Experience with programming languages like Typescript (angular/nodejs/nestjs) and Python are a big plus.

• You are inquisitive, proactive, and comfortable in an informal yet professional environment that offers a high degree of autonomy and responsibility.

• You thrive in cross-cultural and multidisciplinary teams.

• Proficiency in English is required, and knowledge of other languages is a valuable asset.

• You are a resident of Malaysia.

• You possess a valid work permit for Malaysia.
  

Why Work at Rotate

We are a team that solves an endless list of complex problems in an exciting industry. Our products are critical to airlines’ commercial decision-making and are built leveraging the latest technologies. We will tailor your development and career ambitions – ensuring you share in the success. In addition to excellent compensation, we think you’ll be proud and motivated to build a career at Rotate because you will be able to:

• Build things that matter.

• Solve complex problems in a critical industry.

• Partner with airlines to co-develop data-driven SaaS products with the latest technology stack.

• Drive efficiency and sustainability in global supply chains.

• Write your own story.

• Feel like an entrepreneur within a well-funded company and established team.

• Help us build Rotate and share in our joint success.

• Partner with us to tailor your development and career ambition.

• Live unforgettable experiences.

• Get exposed to different cultures, go on unforgettable offsites, experience the highs and lows of start-up life…and if you’re keen, travel the world and eat sushi in Tokyo!
  

Where is the Position Located

This role is based in our newly established office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Our Malaysia office specializes in Software Engineering, Data Engineering, and Data Analysis. You will collaborate with talented tech colleagues.