Designs end-to-end technology solutions for media, OTT, and digital platforms. Translates business requirements into scalable and secure architectures, evaluates technologies, recommends integrations, and guides implementation. Collaborates with business, engineering, infrastructure, and technology teams while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and security standards. The role requires AWS expertise, cloud and microservices experience, infrastructure as code, programming and scripting skills, solution documentation, and stakeholder management.
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We practice a vibrant & energetic office culture.
We provide opportunities for career advancement within the company.
Good performance is always rewarded accordingly.
“It's our people that make Astro Malaysia’s leading entertainment company. We are an inclusive employer, to enable everyone at Astro to be their best. We embrace differences – we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products/services and our community. We also understand and appreciate that diversity is a driver of creativity and innovation, which will make our business more competitive, compelling and profitable.”
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
Job Descriptions
- Design and architect end-to-end technology solutions for media, OTT, and digital platforms.
- Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and reliable technical architectures.
- Collaborate with business, engineering, infrastructure, and technology teams.
- Evaluate technologies and recommend appropriate solutions and integration approaches.
- Provide technical guidance throughout solution design, implementation, and delivery.
- Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture, security, and technology standards.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field with minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience
- Strong experience in solution architecture, software development, systems integration, or related technology roles.
- Handes on experience in AWS technologies
- Experience with cloud, APIs, microservices, data platforms, and enterprise integration is an advantage.
- Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder-management, and problem-solving skills.
- Media, broadcasting, streaming, or OTT industry experience is an advantage.
- In-depth expertise with various AWS services including VPC, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and more. Proficiency in utilizing Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, AWS CDK, and Serverless Framework.
- Proficient in JavaScript (ES6), NodeJS, Python (for scripting), and Bash scripting. Familiarity with Java, Python (for scripting), and Bash scripting is a plus.
- Skilled in project management and solution documentation using tools such as Confluence, JIRA Suite, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Markdown.
REQUIREMENTS:
Certifications:
Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate certification
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