Director, Platform Infrastructure Engineering

Government Technology Agency; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Total rewards package

Leave benefits

Employee wellness programs

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

GovTech in Singapore seeks an Assistant Director, Engineering Management (Platform Infrastructure) to drive scalable, secure platform infrastructure and resiliency across cloud platforms. You will lead automation, observability, and modernization initiatives while guiding engineers, defining standards, and partnering with security, operations, and application teams.

The role requires hands-on expertise in AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, and infrastructure automation, with a focus on platform reliability,

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• Strong experience in infrastructure/platform engineering and cloud operations.
• Deep hands-on expertise in AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, networking, and infrastructure automation.
• Strong experience with Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, and GitOps practices.
• Experience designing and operating observability and monitoring platforms.
• Strong understanding of resiliency engineering, SRE concepts, and production operations.
• Experience leading complex infrastructure transformation or modernisation initiatives.
• Strong troubleshooting, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.
• Experience mentoring engineers and driving engineering standards.
• Exposure to AI-assisted operations, observability, automation or infrastructure engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and engineering of scalable, secure, and resilient platform infrastructure.
• Define and drive platform engineering standards, automation strategy, and operational best practices.
• Lead Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, observability, and platform modernisation initiatives.
• Drive resiliency improvements including failover readiness, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and operational health standards.
• Architect and support Kubernetes platforms and cloud-native infrastructure capabilities.
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex production platform incidents.
• Drive reduction of operational toil through automation and standardisation.
• Partner with security teams on vulnerability remediation, hardening, compliance, and governance requirements.
• Work closely with application teams to improve operational readiness and cloud-native adoption.
• Mentor and guide engineers across platforms, infrastructure, and automation domains.
• Support strategic planning, technical roadmap development, and platform capability uplift.
• Drive technical governance and operational accountability across vendor-supported infrastructure operations, remediation activities, platform enhancements and operational incidents.
• Engage stakeholders across the agency and internal engineering teams

Skills

Cloud Ops

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

GitOps

Leadership

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD pipelines

GitOps

Observability tools

AWS/Azure

Kubernetes

Job description

GovTech in Singapore seeks an Assistant Director, Engineering Management (Platform Infrastructure) to drive scalable, secure platform infrastructure and resiliency across cloud platforms. You will lead automation, observability, and modernization initiatives while guiding engineers, defining standards, and partnering with security, operations, and application teams.

The role requires hands-on expertise in AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, and infrastructure automation, with a focus on platform reliability,