Cloud SRE Engineer - Linux (AVP)

OCBC Bank; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Holistic benefits

Learning & development

Wellbeing programs

Vibrant career

Job summary

OCBC Bank is seeking a Technology Infrastructure Specialist in Singapore to design, implement and maintain a scalable Linux platform. You will work with multiple technology teams to ensure security, performance, and availability and participate in a 24/7 on‑call rotation.

You should bring 10–15 years of Linux infrastructure experience, strong automation skills, and familiarity with cloud and on‑prem deployments. The role emphasizes collaboration, continuous improvement, and mentoring others.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of Linux/Unix infrastructure experience.
• Banking domain experience preferred but not required.
• Experience in on‑prem and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, etc).
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Strong automation and release engineering background.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain a reliable, scalable Linux platform.
• Lead 24/7 on‑call rotation and drive SRE improvements.
• Improve toil reduction, observability, and monitoring across platforms.
• Contribute to deployment design, testing, and knowledge sharing.
• Mentor and develop team members to improve performance.

Skills

Linux admin

SRE practices

On-call rotation

Cloud (AWS)

Infrastructure automation

Monitoring/observability

CI/CD

Strong analytical skills

Mentoring

Resource management

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

AWS

CloudFormation

Job description

WHO WE ARE:

As Singapore’s longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. How? By taking the time to truly understand people. From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires. Today, we’re on a journey of transformation. Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation. But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia’s leading financial services partner for a sustainable future. We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver financial services. Work in friendly, supportive teams. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career. Your Opportunity Starts Here.

Why Join

Imagine being part of a team that powers the technology behind one of Singapore's longest established banks.

As a Technology Infrastructure Specialist at OCBC

You’ll play a critical role in ensuring our systems and infrastructure are secure, efficient, and always available. You’ll be part of a team that's driving innovation and transformation in the banking industry.

How you succeed: To succeed in this role, you’ll need to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to technology trends and advancements. You’ll work closely with our technology teams to design, implement, and maintain our infrastructure, ensuring it's aligned with our business goals and objectives. You’ll need to be proactive, collaborative, and always looking for ways to improve our systems and processes.

What you do

• You partner with various technology teams to design and deliver a reliable, scalable, secure, and performant Red Hat Linux Platform.
• You stay current on technical trends to suggest innovative tools and approaches to interesting problems in the Bank.
• You share your expertise with the entire Engineering /Operations organization.
• You participate in a 24/7 on‑call rotation and drive improvements using SRE practices.
• You actively participate in toil elimination, observability and monitoring improvements, knowledge management, error budget compliance, deployment designs and testing.

Who you are

• 10-15 years of experience in managing Linux or Unix based infrastructure preferably in a banking domain.
• Install, Maintain, Upgrade and Patch UNIX servers in the organization.
• Troubleshoot and fix system and software/hardware issues.
• Support and maintain High Availability of system using clustering software.
• Secure the systems by following published hardening guidelines.
• Assist in audit and compliance tasks.
• Perform Disaster Recovery activities.
• A passion for problem solving with strong analytical capabilities.
• Supporting OS instances on-premises cloud and on public cloud providers like AWS, Oracle Cloud etc.
• Know at least one of {Python, PowerShell, Ruby, Java, C++, C#, Go} at an intermediate level.
• Experience in automating releases, continuous integration/delivery systems and relevant tools in infrastructure.
• Experience / understanding of Software Defined Data Centre, AWS/Azure-based, cloud-native infrastructure and managed services, such as, EC2, S3 and other storage options, VPCs, IAM.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Knowledge of configuration management systems like SCCM, Ansible, Puppet, Chef.
• You consider it important to understand and appreciate your customers and enjoy seeing your work improve the work of others.
• Ability to mentor, coach and develop team members to reach their potential.
• Experience in resource allocation and workload balancing.
• Demonstrates accountability, ownership, and initiative.

What we offer

• Competitive base salary.
• A suite of holistic, flexible benefits to suit every lifestyle.
• Community initiatives.
• Industry-leading learning and professional development opportunities.
• Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers.
• Let’s build the bank we need for the future we want.
• Find the best version of yourself in a friendly, supportive team.
• Build lasting value in your community.
• Help people grow their assets, business, and investments.
• Take your learning as far as you can.
• Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career.
• Your Opportunity Starts Here.

About the Company

As the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932 from the merger of three local banks, we have grew from strength to strength to become a regional financial services group. With a deep history in Asia, we offer the most comprehensive coverage across ASEAN and Greater China, complemented with a presence in the leading economies of New York, London and Sydney. We are the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets with one of the world’s highest credit rating (Aa1 by Moody’s and AA- by both Fitch and S&P). We offer private banking services through our wholly-owned subsidiary, Bank of Singapore, which operates on a unique open-architecture product platform to source for the best-in-class products to meet its clients’ goals. Our insurance subsidiary, Great Eastern Holdings, is the oldest and most established life insurance group in Singapore and Malaysia.