Global Platform Engineering Lead

Ambition Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 300,000 - 480,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Long-term growth opportunities

Job summary

Ambition Singapore is seeking a hands-on Head of Platform Engineering to lead the architecture, development, and evolution of a mission-critical cloud platform in Singapore. You will define the engineering strategy, establish best practices, and build a high-performing team while remaining actively involved in technical design and delivery.

You will work with business and technology leaders to build a scalable, secure, and resilient platform that supports growth and future product expansion.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software/platform/infrastructure engineering with senior leadership.
• Proven experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes, containerisation, CI/CD, IaC.
• Experience with cloud providers AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and communication.
• Singapore-based or eligible to work in Singapore.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the platform engineering strategy, architecture, and technology roadmap.
• Lead the design, development, and scaling of cloud-native platforms and core engineering services.
• Build and enhance shared engineering capabilities, including CI/CD pipelines, developer platforms, infrastructure automation, monitoring, and observability.
• Drive platform scalability, availability, security, and performance across mission-critical systems.
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions that support future product and operational growth.
• Champion engineering best practices across software architecture, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and platform reliability.
• Establish operational excellence through robust incident management, disaster recovery, security, and resilience planning.
• Lead infrastructure and platform operations across modern cloud environments.
• Mentor, coach, and grow a high-performing engineering team while fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate closely with product, architecture, and business stakeholders to deliver innovative platform capabilities.

Skills

Backend engineering

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

Senior technical leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Tools

Kubernetes

Containerisation

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Developer platforms

Job description

Ambition Singapore is seeking a hands-on Head of Platform Engineering to lead the architecture, development, and evolution of a mission-critical cloud platform in Singapore. You will define the engineering strategy, establish best practices, and build a high-performing team while remaining actively involved in technical design and delivery.

You will work with business and technology leaders to build a scalable, secure, and resilient platform that supports growth and future product expansion.