Assistant VP (Cloud Engineering) - United Overseas Bank

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB); Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) seeks a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to manage multi-cloud environments (AWS and Azure) and OpenShift clusters. You will handle incident management, DR planning, and security hardening across distributed Unix/Linux/Windows systems.

Participation in a 24×7 on-call rotation is expected. You will collaborate with application teams to ensure high availability, implement backups, and monitor resources with CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and related tools, while

Qualifications

• Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent.
• Strong hands-on experience in AWS production support.
• Solid operational knowledge of OpenShift / Kubernetes.
• Working knowledge of Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Good understanding of Windows and Linux system administration.
• Experience in monitoring, alerting, and incident management ecosystems.
• Scripting skills in Shell, Bash, or Python (basic-intermediate).

Responsibilities

• Manage and support AWS production environments, ensuring high availability, reliability, and strict compliance.
• Perform incident management, RCA, and problem resolution for production issues.
• Monitor AWS resources using tools such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and third-party monitoring platforms.
• Operate and support AWS core services: EC2, EBS, ELB/ALB, Auto Scaling; VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, NACLs, IAM; S3, RDS (basic operational support).
• Implement backup, restore, and disaster recovery (DR) strategies.
• Provide basic support for Azure components: Azure VMs, VNets, NSGs, Storage, Load Balancers; Monitor Azure services using Azure Monitor and Alerts.
• Support hybrid cloud or multi-cloud integration and connectivity scenarios.
• Manage and support OpenShift clusters in production environments.
• Perform cluster health checks, upgrades, lifecycle management, and troubleshooting.
• Support containerized workloads: pods, deployments, services, ingresses/routes.
• Collaborate with application teams to troubleshoot deployment and runtime issues.
• Manage OpenShift RBAC, user access, and platform security policies.
• Solid understanding of container technologies (Docker/OCI) and Kubernetes fundamentals.

Skills

AWS

Azure

OpenShift / Kubernetes

Unix/Linux/Windows administration

On-call rotation

Education

Degree in IT/CS

Tools

CloudWatch

CloudTrail

Azure Monitor

Docker/OCI

Job description

Company: 1011 United Overseas Bank Ltd

About UOB

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices. Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values - Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long‑term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.

Job Description

We are seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with hands‑on experience in managing multi‑cloud environments, specifically AWS, Azure, and OpenShift infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in administration and troubleshooting across distributed platforms (Unix/Linux/Windows), with a solid understanding of high availability, performance tuning, resilience engineering, and security implementation.

This role is critical in supporting service recovery, including disaster recovery (DR) testing, environment hardening, and root cause analysis (RCA) of production incidents. Candidates must be willing to participate in a 24×7 on-call rotation.

Responsibilities:

Multi-Cloud Infrastructure

• Manage and support AWS production environments, ensuring high availability, reliability, and strict compliance.
• Perform incident management, RCA, and problem resolution for production issues.
• Monitor AWS resources using tools such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and third‑party monitoring platforms.
• Operate and support AWS core services:
  • EC2, EBS, ELB/ALB, Auto Scaling
  • VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, NACLs, IAM
  • S3, RDS (basic operational support)
• Implement backup, restore, and disaster recovery (DR) strategies.
• Provide basic support for Azure components:
  • Azure VMs, VNets, NSGs, Storage, Load Balancers
  • Monitor Azure services using Azure Monitor and Alerts.
• Support hybrid cloud or multi‑cloud integration and connectivity scenarios.

OpenShift

• Manage and support OpenShift clusters in production environments.
• Perform cluster health checks, upgrades, lifecycle management, and troubleshooting.
• Support containerized workloads: pods, deployments, services, ingresses/routes.
• Collaborate with application teams to troubleshoot deployment and runtime issues.
• Manage OpenShift RBAC, user access, and platform security policies.
• Solid understanding of container technologies (Docker/OCI) and Kubernetes fundamentals.

Requirements:

• Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent.
• Strong hands‑on experience in AWS production support.
• Solid operational knowledge of OpenShift / Kubernetes.
• Working knowledge of Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Good understanding of Windows and Linux system administration.
• Experience in monitoring, alerting, and incident management ecosystems.
• Scripting skills in Shell, Bash, or Python (basic-intermediate).

Good-to-have:

• ITIL Foundation (preferred for Incident & Problem Management)
• Red Hat EX280 - OpenShift Administration
• AWS or Azure Associate/Professional-level certifications

Additional Requirements

Be a Part of the UOB Family

UUB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non‑merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.

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