Platform (PaaS/CaaS) Infrastructure Lead

Location: Ang Mo Kio, Singapore

Experience Required: 6+ years

We are seeking an experienced Platform Infrastructure Lead to manage and operate enterprise platform services within a tenant environment above the hypervisor layer, ensuring the reliability, security, availability, and operational excellence of container platforms and COTS components supporting mission-critical applications. This role requires strong technical leadership to manage platform operations, drive continuous improvement, and lead a team of infrastructure engineers.

Key Responsibilities

•    Lead and manage the Platform Operations team supporting container platforms and COTS services

•    Ensure availability, reliability, security, and performance of platform services

•    Manage platform incidents, service requests, changes, problem management, and root cause analysis

•    Install, configure, administer, and troubleshoot COTS components including MongoDB, Microsoft SQL Server, Nginx, Apache HTTP Server, IBM MQ, MQTT, and ArcGIS

•    Collaborate with Application and Authority Furnished Equipment (AFE) teams on system integration, deployments, and issue resolution

•    Develop and maintain SOPs, operational runbooks, and platform architecture documentation

•    Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions

•    Plan and execute platform patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, and lifecycle management

•    Ensure OS compliance with security hardening standards, including golden image compliance

•    Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and resource optimization

•    Lead Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) activities, including testing and validation

•    Drive operational excellence through automation and process improvement

•    Mentor and provide technical leadership to a team of infrastructure engineers

Requirements

•    Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or related discipline

•    7-10 years of experience in infrastructure, platform operations, or systems engineering

•    Proven experience managing enterprise Kubernetes or container platform environments; hands-on experience with Docker and Podman

•    Strong experience installing, configuring, and troubleshooting enterprise COTS software (MongoDB, Microsoft SQL Server, Nginx, Apache HTTP Server, IBM MQ, MQTT, ArcGIS, or equivalent)

•    Experience with enterprise messaging technologies (IBM MQ, MQTT, Kafka, or equivalent)

•    Good understanding of networking concepts (firewalls, load balancers, DNS, SSL/TLS)

•    Strong Linux system administration skills, including OS hardening and performance tuning

•    Experience with monitoring/observability platforms (eG Enterprise, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK Stack, or equivalent)

•    Experience in government, defense, or other highly regulated environments highly preferred

•    Preferred: CI/CD and DevOps practices, infrastructure automation (Ansible, Shell scripting, Python), REST APIs/message queues/event-driven architectures, cybersecurity standards and compliance knowledge

•    Experience leading and mentoring a team of 4-6 infrastructure engineers

Eligibility

Due to government security clearance requirements for this role, only Singapore Citizens are eligible to apply.