Infrastructure Lead

BOND FINANCIAL GROUP PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

BOND FINANCIAL GROUP PTE. LTD. is seeking an Infrastructure Lead to own the infrastructure strategy, architecture and roadmap. This senior player-manager will lead the team, stay hands-on, and ensure platform reliability, security, cost-efficiency and business continuity.

You will govern cloud and on-premise environments, drive IaC (Terraform), Kubernetes operations, DR/BCP programmes, ISO 27001:2022 compliance, and manage third-party providers while supporting 24x7 incident response.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering.
• 3+ years in a leadership role with hands-on delivery.
• Experience with 24x7 production support, DR and BCP.
• Background in regulated industries (financial services preferred).
• ISO 27001:2022 familiarity or exposure.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive infrastructure strategy, platform decisions, and roadmaps.
• Govern costs, capacity planning, and IaC change controls.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters and patch management.
• Lead the infrastructure team and mentor staff; handle on-call duties.
• Collaborate with third-party providers; ensure ISO 27001:2022 audit evidence.

Skills

Infrastructure

Leadership

Kubernetes

IaC

Cloud

Security

ISO27001

BCP/DR

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Cloud certifications

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS/Azure/GCP

CI/CD

GitOps

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.

Team Leadership

• 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.