Infra Platform Engineer

Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies in Singapore seeks a DevOps/SRE professional to design, build, and maintain distributed platforms for internal developers.

You will implement cloud orchestration portals, scalable API services and observability, while enforcing security and reliability metrics across infrastructure. A background in CS/IT and 2+ years in scripting and DevOps is required.

Qualifications

• Background in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or related STEM with relevant experience.
• Software development experience (DevOps, SDLC, Agile development).
• Proficient in infra-as-code and scripting tools like Ansible, Terraform, Linux shell scripts, PowerShell, etc.
• System operations and administration experience on enterprise systems.
• At least 2 years of relevant working experience, including scripting and programming is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a cloud orchestration portal for developers to provision infrastructure, manage deployments and monitor resource usage.
• Design, develop and maintain scalable API services for infra capabilities (storage access, pipelines, etc).
• Eliminate repetitive tasks to improve developer and infra engineer efficiency and system reliability.
• Add observability for monitoring to aid in problem diagnosis and provide health/performance insights.
• Define, track and report SRE metrics including SLOs, SLIs and error budgets.
• Collaborate with Developers and Infra Engineers to understand needs for reliable infra services.
• Implement and adhere to security best practices for infra systems and services.

Skills

DevOps

SDLC

Agile development

Infra-as-code

Scripting

System operations

2+ years experience

Education

CS/CE/IT degree

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Linux shell

PowerShell

Job description

You will be part of a dynamic team responsible for exploring, designing, building, maintaining and optimising distributed systems and platforms that support internal developers and products. You must have a good understanding of IT architecture, systems design, application and systems integration and site reliability engineering (SRE).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a cloud orchestration portal that provides a single pane for developers to provision infrastructure, manage deployments and monitor resource utilization.
• Design, develop and maintain scalable API services for developers to access infra capabilities (i.e. object storage access, file transfer pipelines, etc).
• Identify and eliminate repetitive and mundane tasks to improving Developer and Infra Engineer’s efficiency and overall system reliability.
• Build in observability for monitoring to assist in problem diagnosis and to provide insights to systems health and performance.
• Define, track and report on SRE metrics, including SLO, SLI and error budgets.
• Collaborate with Developers and Infra Engineers to understand their needs for reliable infra services.
• Implement and adhere to security best practices for infra systems and services.

Requirements (Minimum Qualifications)

• Background in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related STEM qualification with relevant experience.
• Software development experience (i.e. DevOps, SDLC, Agile development, etc).
• Proficient in infra-as-code and scripting tools like Ansible, Terraform, Linux shell scripts, Powershell, etc.
• System operations and administration experience on enterprise systems.
• At least 2 years of relevant working experience, including scripting and programming is preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiar with CI/CD processes.
• Familiar with metrics/logging systems such as Elastic Stack and Prometheus/Grafana.

As CSIT is an agency under the Ministry of Defence (Singapore), only Singapore Citizens will be considered.