Lead AI Platform Engineer - Global Hybrid Team

SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Singtel, through its AIDA – Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics unit, seeks a leader to drive the Central AI Kitchen platform services on RE:AI’s IaaS, using OpenShift. You will own platform capabilities, enable secure AI agent interactions, and guide a cross-border team in Singapore and India.

You’ll design and implement MCP servers/gateways, establish reusable onboarding patterns, and enforce security controls while coordinating delivery with enterprise teams and vendors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years in platform engineering, cloud-native infra, or AI/data platform roles.
• Experience implementing platforms on Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Experience designing or integrating enterprise APIs, gateways, identity platforms.
• Proven ability to lead platform components and guide engineering teams.
• Ability to coordinate delivery across multiple engineers and geographies.

Responsibilities

• Lead implementation and operation of Central AI Kitchen's shared Agentic AI Platform Services on RE:AI's IaaS using OpenShift or equivalent container platforms.
• Own and evolve platform capabilities supporting secure interaction between AI agents, enterprise systems and tools, including MCP services, MCP/API gateways, agent identity and agent registry.
• Develop reusable platform patterns and services to enable application teams to build, onboard and operate governed enterprise AI agents.
• Contribute to security, scalability, interoperability, resilience and reliability of agentic AI services.
• Lead and coordinate a hybrid engineering team across Singapore and India, providing technical direction, work planning, mentoring and delivery oversight.
• Collaborate with AI architects, infrastructure, cybersecurity, application teams and other AI Platform Engineering leads.

Skills

Leadership

Platform engineering

Cloud-native infra

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Enterprise API design

Security controls

Hybrid team management

Documentation & reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes/OpenShift

API gateways

Job description

Singtel, through its AIDA – Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics unit, seeks a leader to drive the Central AI Kitchen platform services on RE:AI’s IaaS, using OpenShift. You will own platform capabilities, enable secure AI agent interactions, and guide a cross-border team in Singapore and India.

You’ll design and implement MCP servers/gateways, establish reusable onboarding patterns, and enforce security controls while coordinating delivery with enterprise teams and vendors.