Kubernetes Platform Engineer — OpenShift On-Prem

Government Technology Agency; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total rewards

Flexible work

Wellness programs

Job summary

GovTech is recruiting a hands-on engineer to build, automate, and operate our on-premises OpenShift platform for government workloads across multiple data centres. You will leverage strong Kubernetes experience to ensure highly available clusters and reliable platform services.

You will collaborate with networking, security, storage, and application teams, implement GitOps workflows, and contribute to incident response, runbooks, and disaster recovery planning.

Qualifications

• Experience building or operating self-managed Kubernetes clusters.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture, networking, scheduling, storage, and workload lifecycle.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with cluster upgrades, node lifecycle management, monitoring, and incident response.
• Automation experience using Ansible, Terraform, Go, Python, shell, or similar tools.
• Experience with GitOps, infrastructure as code, and version-controlled configuration.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, load balancing, routing, and firewalls.
• Ability to troubleshoot across application, platform, operating-system, and infrastructure layers.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate highly available OpenShift clusters.
• Automate cluster provisioning, configuration, upgrades, scaling, and recovery.
• Manage platform services including networking, ingress, DNS, identity, certificates, storage integration, monitoring, and logging.
• Implement GitOps workflows for cluster and platform configuration.
• Establish tenant onboarding, access control, quotas, policies, and workload-isolation standards.
• Monitor platform health and troubleshoot incidents across Kubernetes, Linux, networking, storage, and infrastructure.
• Develop runbooks and test upgrade, backup, restore, and disaster-recovery procedures.
• Work with network, security, storage, and application teams to deliver reliable platform services.
• Participate in production support and share knowledge with the wider engineering team.

Skills

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Linux

Ansible

Terraform

Go

Python

Shell

GitOps

IaC

DNS

TLS

Load balancing

Networking

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Linux

Ansible

Terraform

Go

Python

Shell

Job description

GovTech is recruiting a hands-on engineer to build, automate, and operate our on-premises OpenShift platform for government workloads across multiple data centres. You will leverage strong Kubernetes experience to ensure highly available clusters and reliable platform services.

You will collaborate with networking, security, storage, and application teams, implement GitOps workflows, and contribute to incident response, runbooks, and disaster recovery planning.