Technical Service Operations Lead (TSO Lead), Kuala Lumpur

Skills

About the Role

Lead major incident response, coordinate cross-functional investigations, make escalation decisions, manage stakeholder and customer communications, maintain status-page updates, facilitate blameless post-incident reviews, track corrective actions, analyze operational trends, mentor Operations Engineers, produce operational reports, govern service-management workflows, provide operational coverage, and participate in rotating weekend on-call.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in incident management, SRE, NOC leadership, or technical operations supporting high-availability and high-transaction production systems.
• Incident management experience coordinating multi-team responses, making escalation decisions, and communicating with executive stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
• Strong ITIL knowledge across incident, problem, and change management.
• Observability expertise, including logs, traces, metrics, APM, SLOs, error budgets, burn-rate alerting, and synthetic monitoring.
• Hands-on experience with Datadog, PagerDuty or OpsGenie, JIRA or JIRA Service Management, Slack, and Confluence.
• Ability to analyze incident data and provide actionable recommendations.
• Experience with SLA/SLO-driven operations and MTTD, MTTA, and MTTR metrics.
• Experience with or strong interest in AI/ML-assisted operations.
• Ability to work in 24x7 shift-based operations and participate in rotating weekend on-call.
• Background in gaming, payments, fintech, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, microservices, or distributed systems is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Incident Commander for major incidents and coordinate cross-functional response teams.
• Drive incident investigations, escalation decisions, and resolution within SLA targets.
• Own incident communications for leadership, Customer Success, partners, and customers.
• Manage customer-facing status page updates.
• Facilitate blameless post-incident reviews and track corrective actions to closure.
• Analyze incident trends, recurring issues, and production bugs.
• Create Problem tickets and report recommendations to product and engineering teams.
• Enforce the incident management framework, including severity, priority, SLA, escalation, and deployment-readiness processes.
• Mentor Operations Engineers on triage, investigation, runbooks, and documentation.
• Produce shift handoff reports and operational KPI reporting.
• Audit service catalogue completeness and govern JIRA Service Management workflows.
• Cover Operations Engineer duties during absences or surge incidents.
• Participate in a rotating weekend on-call schedule for major incidents.

Benefits

• Mac workstation and additional hardware.
• Health insurance covering medical, dental, and optical care for employees and dependants.
• Flexible working hours.
• No dress code.
• New office environment.
• Professional training and specialized conference participation.
• Knowledge exchange within the company.

Hiring Process

Final interview stage followed by background checks where permitted by law.