Ørsted

DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes Platform Team

Join Ørsted in Kuala Lumpur as a DevOps Engineer to operate and enhance Kubernetes platforms supporting green energy. Work hands-on with cloud technologies, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD in a collaborative, agile environment. Benefit from global impact and continuous learning opportunities.
Ørsted
Ørsted Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Hybrid Full time UTC+08:00

Ørsted

Company Overview

Ørsted

Fredericia, Denmark

1972

Approximately 8,700 employees globally (source: linkedin.com). Revenues of DKK 82.0 billion (approximately €11 billion) in 2023 (source: orsted.com).

What They Do

Ørsted is a global leader in renewable energy, focusing on offshore wind as its primary business model. The company develops, constructs, and operates large offshore wind farms using both fixed and floating turbines, and offers services in project development, engineering, procurement, construction, operation and maintenance, as well as power purchase agreements (source: orsted.com). Additionally, Ørsted works with onshore wind, solar energy, energy storage, renewable hydrogen, green fuels, and bioenergy, making them a versatile player in the renewable energy market (source: stateofgreen.com). Target markets include Europe, particularly the UK, Germany, and Denmark, as well as the USA, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea, where they serve large customers such as national grid operators and utilities (source: orsted.com). Ørsted holds a leading competitive position as the world's largest developer of offshore wind with over 15 GW of installed capacity globally and a pipeline of over 37 GW under development (source: orsted.com).

Projects & Achievements

Among Ørsted's notable projects is the Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm in the UK, which, with a capacity of 1.4 GW, was fully commissioned in 2022 and is the world's largest operational offshore wind farm (source: orsted.com). The Race Bank offshore wind farm, also in the UK, was completed in 2018 with a capacity of 573 MW (source: orsted.com). In the USA, Revolution Wind (704 MW) reached financial close in 2024 with operations planned for 2026, while South Fork Wind (132 MW), the first offshore wind farm in the state, began delivering power to New York in 2024 (source: orsted.com). Current major projects include Hornsea 3 (2.9 GW, UK, under construction with first power expected in 2025) and Greater Changhua 4 (112 MW, Taiwan, commissioning in 2025) (source: orsted.com).

Recent Developments

In the past two years, Ørsted has won a contract for the 2.4 GW Atlantic Shores Project 4 offshore wind lease off the coast of New Jersey, USA, in October 2024 (source: orsted.com). They reached financial close on the 1.1 GW Greater Changhua 4 & 5 offshore wind farms in Taiwan in July 2024, valued at over DKK 10 billion (source: orsted.com). In 2023, Ørsted acquired a 20% stake in the 900 MW Nissen offshore wind project in Germany for €227 million (source: orsted.com). Ørsted also secured €1.2 billion in green financing in 2024 and reported an EBITDA of DKK 18.0 billion in 2023 despite project delays (source: orsted.com).

Working There

Ørsted offers roles in engineering (wind turbine technicians, project engineers), project development (site acquisition, permitting specialists), operations and maintenance (offshore service technicians), supply chain, finance, IT, legal, and sustainability analysis, with high demand in offshore wind construction and hydrogen R&D (source: orsted.com). Active recruitment is taking place at offices in Fredericia and Copenhagen (Denmark) for engineering and HQ functions, London (UK) for project development, as well as in the USA, Taiwan, and Germany for offshore wind and hydrogen initiatives (source: linkedin.com). The company culture emphasizes innovation and transformation, as evidenced by their successful shift from fossil fuels, with employee reviews on Glassdoor averaging 4.0/5 for work-life balance and career opportunities (source: glassdoor.com). Documented benefits include competitive salaries, a 37-hour workweek in Denmark, six weeks of paid vacation, pension contributions up to 12%, hybrid work arrangements, and green benefits such as electric vehicle schemes and sustainability training (source: orsted.com).

Last updated on May 22, 2026 | Report an issue

Imagine a future where your cloud and Kubernetes skills are the key to driving the digital transformation of green energy production.

You'll join us in this role where you'll operate and continuously improve our Kubernetes platforms, ensuring they remain stable, secure, and easy to consume by multiple product teams across the organization. You'll play a hands-on role in platform operations, incident handling, and maturing our Infrastructure as Code and self-service capabilities.

Welcome to Cloud Platforms Products Suite

You'll be part of the Cloud Platforms Product Suite, part of larger IT Infrastructure Product Line., joining the Kubernetes product team responsible for delivering a stable and secure enterprise container platform. Alongside your colleagues, will provide IT integration services to all business units in our organization, enabling the business to grow rapidly across the globe. As a global platform team, we follow lean‑agile principles emphasising collaboration and continuous improvement.

You'll play an important role in

  • operating and supporting Kubernetes clusters in Azure and AWS
  • maintaining and extending Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
  • troubleshooting platform issues and participate in incident resolution
  • supporting CI/CD activities used by platform and customer product teams
  • contributing to platform standards, documentation, and self-service capabilities
  • collaborating with product teams, architects, and security to ensure compliant platform usage.

To succeed in the role, you

  • have hands-on experience operating Kubernetes clusters in Azure or AWS
  • have a team-player mindset to platform engineering
  • are strongly aligned work our technology stack: Terraform, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Bash, Go, or Python
  • have an understanding of cloud networking, identity, and security fundamentals
  • have worked with an agile methodology in an international, English-speaking environment
  • have experience and relevant certifications within CKA, CKAD, or CKS
  • have experience with internal developer platforms and/or shared cloud platforms,
  • have exposure to observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch,
  • have experience supporting multiple teams on a shared Kubernetes platform.

Maybe you've read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don't quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

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About the role

July 9, 2026

July 10, 2026

Full time

Hybrid

Company

Smart Grid

Ørsted

orsted.com

  •  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and relevant certifications

UTC+08:00

Tags

Cloud Computing · IT · Software Development