Lead DevOps Engineer (Bangkok based, Relocation provided)

Agoda is hiring a Lead DevOps Engineer (IC5) for its Data department in Bangkok, Thailand, with relocation provided. The role defines the vision, architecture, and multi-year technical roadmap for DevOps, automation, and platform engineering across hybrid multi-cloud and on-premises infrastructure, partnering with engineering directors, principal architects, and QA leads.

Responsibilities include leading SRE and GitOps adoption, designing CI/CD and automation frameworks, resolving high-severity incidents in distributed data pipelines, mentoring engineers, and evaluating emerging platform technologies. Candidates need advanced software engineering skills, deep distributed systems expertise, and proven leadership in large-scale infrastructure initiatives.

Architect, scale, and lead the technical vision for hybrid infrastructure orchestration and automation across multi-cloud and on-premises environments

Spearhead departmental adoption of DevOps, SRE, and GitOps methodologies to accelerate release velocity

Establish architectural standards and lead design reviews for large-scale automation frameworks, CI/CD platforms, and core infrastructure services

Define and execute the strategic technical roadmap for DevOps and developer productivity

Diagnose and resolve systemic high-severity incidents, performance bottlenecks, and architectural trade-offs within complex distributed data pipelines

Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and cultivate a culture of engineering excellence

Advanced software engineering mastery in one or more core languages (e.g., Golang, Python, Java)

Deep foundation in distributed systems, network fundamentals, storage engine architecture, and high-concurrency systems design

Subject matter expertise in containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, custom operators)

Hands-on experience implementing enterprise Service Mesh and Service Discovery solutions (e.g., Istio, Linkerd, Consul, Envoy)

Deep expertise in SRE principles, continuous delivery patterns, Infrastructure as Code, and GitOps methodologies (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux)

Deep expertise in architecting, scaling, and operating enterprise-grade relational and non-relational database infrastructure (e.g., PostgreSQL, MSSQL)

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