IT jobs in Malaysia

IT Industry Developments in Malaysia

The government of Malaysia will now focus to provide new modified incentives in order to draw more investments in IT regionally. Government officials asserted that the incentives would be on the basis of the taxation patterns from that of the investors. It also would be based on the amount of the jobs generated for the local candidates. Some selected IT companies were of opinion once that there was a dearth of network and software professionals in Malaysia, with skills needed to carry on with the job. Research suggests that the major shortfalls were in the fields of network security, VoIP and wireless networking. Hence, with the increased global IT boom and the Malaysian Government now would secure greater IT investments and funds that in turn would create scopes for IT jobs in Malaysia.

IT services in Malaysia

Some time back mostly all IT services in Malaysia were more or less at the level of IT support, customer-sales support and applications development. The industry is now far developed from before and has upgraded the value chain. Malaysia recorded a high growth over the year 2009, particularly in the areas of outsourcing and security, which now is responsible for over one quarter spending. The rate of maintenance and support is estimated to expand more steadily, and the procurement of bigger contracts seems to be contributing as well. The IT industry in Malaysia is expected to grow and gather prominence from the developing interest amidst huge companies that are looking at business process outsourcing.

With regards to the IT jobs in Malaysia and their requirements or criteria, the preferences vary from place to place. There are certain basic qualifications that are required if an individual would want to make IT his career field. For instance an IT project Manager, is required to have an Engineering or MCA degree and have good communication skills. Similarly a Chief Technical Official is expected to have mastered a degree in Engineering and have knowledge about other technologies, for instance Java, Unix, C++ and so on. Apart from these managerial qualities and other interpersonal skills too are required.

IT jobs in Malaysia are increasing now by the day, with more IT companied expanding their operations as per the customer feedback and need. The atmosphere is set with eminent companies and challenging job profiles.

Some of the eminent companies that provide IT jobs are:-

• Hitachi
• Ceva Logistics
• IBM
• Acer
• Intel
• HCL
• Accenture

Hitachi

• Senior IT Support Manager.
• Senior Information Security Analyst
• Siebel Integration Developer.
• IT Project Head
• Specialist IT support Engineer

Hitachi looks forward to freshers or professionals with adequate technical training and good managerial, communication and reasoning skills. A relevant job experience always would be beneficial

HCL

Located at Bukit Jalil, HCL has been operating in Malaysia since 1982, and by now has developed strong and credible associations with the eminent and established companies in the city. Also HCL has been recognized and was awarded the esteemed MSC title.

HCL handles several national projects and assignments in Malaysia. The Malaysian government has now undertaken an eProcurement project which is termed as ePerolehan with HCL being a part of it.

HCL works towards providing its value added services to all IT requirements in Malaysia. Hence, there lies a great scope in the domain of IT jobs in Malaysia with this company. The company seeks individuals in IT field who are well informed about the software developments and their applications. They should be able to work in a disciplined and integrated way in order to deliver the best to the audience and the target consumers. Some of the technical and IT jobs that HCL provides to the aspiring candidates are:-

• System Administrator
• System Analyst
• Technical Leader
• Sr.Software engineer
• Group Project Manager

Intel

Over the last 30 years of its existence, Intel Malaysia located at Bayan Lepas has evolved as the most developed and largest manufacturing plant. The company at Malaysia now supports about three centers and absorbs a work force of 8,500 people and more. Intel Penang is known as a testing unit and Intel Kulim classifies as a plant for processing and packaging. It is also an important unit for mobile components. Intel has been very proactive in absorbing able and potential IT candidates who are energetic and has an aptitude for the IT operations and systems. Some of the IT related job profiles with Intel are:-

• Software Engineer
• Software Simulation Engineer
• Data Analyst
• Project Manager
• Chief Technical Officer