SR. CLOUD PLATFORM & SRC LEAD

We're hiring a Senior Cloud Platform & SRC Lead to set standards, architect platform-wide systems, and turn fuzzy organizational pain into funded, measurable platform programs.

This is an architect-and-influence role. You'll own the design and rollout of platform initiatives that span teams, regions, and accounts — multi-region HA, the Zero-Trust program, the supply-chain baseline, the FinOps strategy, the AI/ML infrastructure bet. You'll write architecture decision records that stick, mentor Mids toward Staff, and be the person the org trusts to de-risk big bets.

If you've architected multi-region platforms, driven org-level reliability or security programs, and want a team that treats the platform as a product with users and a roadmap — this is the role.

Responsibitly:

• Has architected multi-region or multi-account platforms — can defend active-active vs active-passive, cell-based vs replicated, and the consistency/cost/complexity trade-offs of each.
• Reliability program ownership — has run an org-wide SLO program, used error budgets as a governance tool (not just a metric), led game days / DR exercises, and owned post-incident reviews that changed how the org works.
• Security program ownership — has driven Zero Trust, supply-chain, or compliance-automation as a program, not a feature.
• FinOps leadership — has owned unit economics across teams, set commitment strategy, run chargeback/showback, and made platform cost a first-class engineering concern.
• Deep cloud-native fluency — Kubernetes (multi-cluster, operators, CRDs, policy), service mesh (Istio/Linkerd/Cilium), GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux + progressive delivery), IaC (Terraform + CDK/Pulumi/Crossplane), OpenTelemetry, eBPF-based observability. Can name the trade-off of every tool they propose.
• Architecture communication — writes ADRs and strategy docs that survive review and drive decisions. Can frame a problem before proposing a solution.
• Influence and ambiguity — turns fuzzy org pain into a funded initiative, aligns cross-functional stakeholders, sequences work, says what to cut.
• Mentorship — has grown at least one engineer to the next level; can calibrate the hiring bar; sponsors others growth.

Qualification (must-have):

• 5+ years in cloud infrastructure/platform/SRE, with 2+ years operating Kubernetes at scale (multiple clusters, production traffic, real on-call).
• Has architected multi-region or multi-account platforms — can defend active-active vs active-passive, cell-based vs replicated, and the consistency/cost/complexity trade-offs of each.
• Reliability program ownership — has run an org-wide SLO program, used error budgets as a governance tool (not just a metric), led game days / DR exercises, and owned post-incident reviews that changed how the org works.
• Security program ownership — has driven Zero Trust, supply-chain, or compliance-automation as a program, not a feature. Knows SPIFFE/SPIRE, workload identity, admission control, and breach-readiness.
• FinOps leadership — has owned unit economics across teams, set commitment strategy, run chargeback/showback, and made platform cost a first-class engineering concern.
• Deep cloud-native fluency — Kubernetes (multi-cluster, operators, CRDs, policy), service mesh (Istio/Linkerd/Cilium), GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux + progressive delivery), IaC (Terraform + CDK/Pulumi/Crossplane), OpenTelemetry, eBPF-based observability. Can name the trade-off of every tool they propose.
• Architecture communication — writes ADRs and strategy docs that survive review and drive decisions. Can frame a problem before proposing a solution.
• Influence and ambiguity — turns fuzzy org pain into a funded initiative, aligns cross-functional stakeholders, sequences work, says what to cut.
• Mentorship — has grown at least one engineer to the next level; can calibrate the hiring bar; sponsors others growth.

Nice to have (differentiators)

• AI/ML infrastructure — GPU scheduling, model serving, LLMOps, vector DB ops, inference cost optimization. Strong 2026 differentiator.
• Internal Developer Platform leadership — Backstage/Humanitec-style portals, golden-path programs, DX metrics, platform-team org model.
• Multi-cloud honesty — can articulate when multi-cloud is the right answer and when it's cargo cult.Regulator-grade DR — RTO/RPO discipline, audited game days, compliance automation that survives an audit.
• Open-source leadership — maintainer, frequent contributor, or recognized voice in cloud-native (talks, sigs, the CNCF).
• Hiring committee / calibration experience — has shaped a hiring bar at a previous org.

About Kawan Lama Group

Established in 1955, Kawan Lama Group is a multi-sector group of companies who are constantly innovating for improving the quality of lives. Manages 28 brand portfolios operating in six different sectors: Commercial & Industrial, Consumer Retail, Food & Beverages, Property & Hospitality, Manufacturing & Engineering, and Commercial Technology. Aiming to be more than family business - but beyond that, we are business for families, we carry the mission to bring values for betterment of lives through business development and continuous growth.