Infrastructure Lead

Bond Financial Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Bond Financial Group is seeking an Infrastructure Lead to own the infrastructure strategy and architecture. You will lead the team with hands‑on technical capability, ensuring reliability, security, and cost-efficiency across cloud and on‑prem environments.

You’ll drive governance, IaC practices, and patch/DR programs, while mentoring staff and coordinating with service providers to meet 24x7 incident requirements and business continuity goals.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering with leadership experience.
• Proven experience with production infrastructure, 24x7 on-call, and DR execution.
• Background in regulated industries and ISO 27001:2022 exposure.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive infrastructure strategy, platform decisions, and technology roadmap.
• Budget, capacity planning, and IaC change controls across environments.
• Lead the infrastructure team as a hands-on player-manager.
• Mentor staff, manage third-party providers, and ensure security hardening.
• Maintain DR/BCP plans and support ISO 27001:2022 audits.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Terraform

Kubernetes

Security hardening

IaC governance

On-call management

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/IT/Engineering

Job description

The Infrastructure Lead is a senior player-manager responsible for owning the infrastructure strategy, architecture, and roadmap. This role leads the infrastructure team with strategic oversight and handson technical capability, ensuring platform reliability, security, cost-efficiency, and business continuity, underpinned by modern DevSecOps practices.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure Strategy, Governance, Provisioning & Operations

• Own and drive the infrastructure strategy, platform decisions, and technology roadmap in alignment with organisational objectives.
• Govern infrastructure costs, capacity planning, and IaC change controls across all environments.
• Ensure infrastructure controls are documented and evidenced to support the ISO 27001:2022 certification programme.
• Build and configure cloud infrastructure using IaC tooling; manage networking, secrets, and certificate lifecycle across all environments.
• Maintain production infrastructure stability, manage Kubernetes clusters, and execute patch management within defined SLAs.
• Lead the infrastructure team as a player-manager, remaining hands‑on and technically capable.
• Provide mentorship to the Senior Cloud Engineer and infrastructure staff; cover on‑call duties as required.
• Manage third‑party infrastructure service providers, including SLA governance and performance management.

Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Support

• Establish and maintain the DR plan across all infrastructure systems, ensuring it is documented, tested, and evidenced.
• Collaborate with the BCM on BCP and produce DR test records as ISO 27001:2022 audit evidence.
• On-call availability is required to support 24x7 incident response coverage.

Requirements

Experience

• 10+ years of hands‑on infrastructure or platform engineering experience, with 3+ years in a leadership role.
• Proven experience managing production infrastructure including 24x7 on‑call incident response and DR execution.
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering DR and BCP programmes.
• Experience managing third‑party infrastructure or managed service providers; ISO 27001:2022 frameworks exposure.
• Background in regulated industries (financial services preferred); on-premise or hybrid infrastructure experience advantageous.

Technical Skills

• Cloud infrastructure: architecture, provisioning, governance, and security hardening (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, or equivalent
• Networking: LAN/WAN, VPCs, security groups, firewall rules, DNS, and TLS certificate management
• Container orchestration: Kubernetes cluster management and CI/CD pipeline infrastructure
• DevSecOps practices: GitOps workflows, infrastructure‑as‑code governance, and platform engineering standards
• Observability: monitoring, alerting, and on‑call incident management for 24x7 environments
• Secrets management, patch management, and configuration management at scale

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Cloud platform certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP) strongly preferred; ITIL or TOGAF advantageous.