Head of Cloud Data Platform & AI on GCP

DBS Bank Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

DBS Bank Ltd. in Singapore seeks a VP, Senior Cloud Engineer (Data Platform) to design, build and operate enterprise-scale data, analytics and AI platforms on Google Cloud Platform. You will work with architects, data scientists and security teams to ensure secure, scalable production workloads.

You will lead engineering governance, promote best practices in IaC, CI/CD and DevSecOps, and mentor engineers while delivering resilient cloud capabilities for analytics and agentic workloads.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of infrastructure, platform or cloud engineering experience, including at least 5 years working with GCP.
• Strong hands-on experience designing, implementing and operating enterprise-scale solutions on GCP, including production workloads in hybrid cloud environments.
• Experience engineering platforms that enable AI/ML, Generative AI or agentic workloads, including reusable platform services, deployment patterns or model-serving capabilities.
• Expertise in BigQuery, Dataproc, Cloud Storage and cloud-native data platforms, with strong knowledge of Spark and data formats such as Avro and Parquet.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker and containerised workloads in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and cloud automation practices.
• Strong understanding of cloud IAM, service accounts, federated identities, workload identity, delegated authorisation and secure machine-to-machine or application-to-application access models.
• Experience implementing enterprise security controls, including least-privilege IAM, encryption, secrets and key management, policy-based access controls and workload-level security automation.
• Knowledge of data governance and secure data-access patterns, including fine-grained access controls and entitlement-aware authorisation.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, secure, and operate enterprise-scale data, analytics, AI and agentic platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Partner with architects, data engineers, data scientists, security and governance teams to deliver scalable platform capabilities.
• Define and promote engineering standards, coding reviews and governance for production workloads.
• Implement cloud-native patterns: IaC, CI/CD, automated testing and DevSecOps controls.
• Lead troubleshooting of complex production issues across cloud infra, data platforms, Kubernetes and distributed systems.

Skills

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

IAM & Security

Python/Java

Data governance

OpenTelemetry/Grafana/Prometheus

Tools

Docker

Kafka

PostgreSQL/MySQL

OpenTelemetry

Job description

DBS Bank Ltd. in Singapore seeks a VP, Senior Cloud Engineer (Data Platform) to design, build and operate enterprise-scale data, analytics and AI platforms on Google Cloud Platform. You will work with architects, data scientists and security teams to ensure secure, scalable production workloads.

You will lead engineering governance, promote best practices in IaC, CI/CD and DevSecOps, and mentor engineers while delivering resilient cloud capabilities for analytics and agentic workloads.