Platform Engineer

Vortexa; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology-driven energy firm in Singapore is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to enhance their developer platform using AWS and Kubernetes. In this role, you will ensure robust infrastructure for real-time data processing and optimize costs while providing a great developer experience. You should be proficient in troubleshooting and familiar with tools like Kafka and Terraform. Enjoy a vibrant workplace with benefits like stock options and private health insurance.

Benefits

Stock-options in a fast-growing business

Private Health Insurance via Blue Cross Shield

Global Volunteering Policy

401k with matched contributions

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-native application design and deployment.
• Strong troubleshooting skills with unfamiliar code.
• Proficient in deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters.

Responsibilities

• Create infrastructure that provides an excellent developer experience.
• Ensure 100% uptime and fault-tolerance of the infrastructure.
• Automate operational knowledge to improve R&D productivity.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Apache Kafka

ElasticSearch

Terraform

Go programming

Job description

Vortexa was founded to solve the immense information gap that exists in the energy industry. By using massive amounts of new satellite data and pioneering work in artificial intelligence, Vortexa creates an unprecedented view on the global seaborne energy flows in real-time, bringing transparency and efficiency to the energy markets and society as a whole.

The Challenge

Ingesting data from multiple external vastly different sources at hundreds of rich data points per second, moving terabytes of data while processing it in real-time, running complex and complicated prediction and forecasting AI models while coupling their output into a hybrid human-machine data refinement process and presenting the result through a nimble low-latency SaaS solution used by customers around the globe is no small feat of science and engineering. This processing requires a highly reliable, stable, fault-tolerant infrastructure that can withstand multiple and varied uses and abuses by data analysts, data scientists, industry experts, and the end-users. Fast product iteration cycles necessitate a platform that allows engineers to deploy frequently, independently, and without in-depth knowledge of infrastructure complexities.

The Data Services Team is responsible for the developer platform, and the impressive Amazon AWS estate Vortexa uses to achieve its purpose. This includes two major areas of concern: infrastructure availability, security and costs, as well as developer experience. We use a wide variety of technologies like Kubernetes, Kubevela, Golang, Kafka, Opensearch, Airflow, Athena, and others.

You will be a key member of the small, globally distributed team, instrumental in assessing current technologies, delivering the best possible engineering experience with the shortest development iterations, helping crystallise, converge and standardise technology stacks and implementing the infrastructure roadmap, ensuring 100% uptime, availability, and fault-tolerance of every component of the platform, while optimising AWS costs. You will provide your customers such as data analysts, data scientists, and other engineers with a delightful developer experience tooling boosting their productivity, and allowing them to concentrate on business logic. You will codify and automate any operational knowledge gathered so that R&D can focus purely on creating value for our customers.

You Are:

• Determined to create infrastructure that gets out of the way with a great developer experience
• Excellent at troubleshooting unfamiliar code.
• Striving to be more skilled than Google with Kubernetes
• An AWS power user and evangelist
• Familiar with Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams – deployment, monitoring, resiliency, fault-tolerance, cluster planning and operations, applications debugging
• Experienced with ElasticSearch operations and usage
• Fluent in Terraform, and Go
• Familiar with cloud-native application design and deployment
• Not afraid of challenges and infrastructure troubleshooting
• A “can-do” person – “I’ve done my bit” has no place at Vortexa

Awesome If You:

• Are familiar with Airflow or other workflow orchestration tools
• Understand data lakes like Parquet, Orc, Athena

• Stock-options in a fast-growing, high-potential business
• A vibrant and diverse workplace
• An open, collaborative, and supportive working culture built on merit, which celebrates creative thinking and “getting things done.”
• The opportunity to work with AI-driven technology in a scale-up environment with commodity trading experts
• 401k with up to 2% contributions matched by Vortexa
• Private Health Insurance offered via Blue Cross Shield
• Dental and Vision cover offered via Guardian
• Global Volunteering Policy to help you ‘do good’ and feel better