Kubernetes Platform Engineer – OpenShift & On-Prem

GovTech Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

GovTech Singapore is seeking a hands-on engineer to build, automate, and operate our on-premises OpenShift platform for government workloads across multiple data centres. Strong Kubernetes experience is essential; OpenShift experience is preferred.

You will build and operate OpenShift clusters, automate provisioning and upgrades, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable platform services. This role offers opportunities to shape a secure, scalable government tech stack.

Qualifications

• Experience building or operating self-managed Kubernetes clusters.
• Understanding of Kubernetes architecture, networking, 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, or shell.
• Experience with GitOps, infrastructure as code, and version-controlled configuration.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, load balancing, 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 architecture

Linux administration

Incident response

Automation

Runbook development

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Go

Python

Shell scripting

Job description

GovTech Singapore is seeking a hands-on engineer to build, automate, and operate our on-premises OpenShift platform for government workloads across multiple data centres. Strong Kubernetes experience is essential; OpenShift experience is preferred.

You will build and operate OpenShift clusters, automate provisioning and upgrades, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable platform services. This role offers opportunities to shape a secure, scalable government tech stack.