Platform Engineer

Success Human Resource Centre Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 91,000 - 109,000; Full time

Job summary

Success Human Resource Centre Pte Ltd is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design, build, automate, and operate scalable, resilient, secure platforms across cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, and on-premises environments.

The role focuses on delivering enterprise platform capabilities enabling rapid development, deployment, and operation of services through standardized, self-service, and automated offerings.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or related technology roles supporting enterprise-scale cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, and on-premises environments.
• Proven experience designing, implementing, automating, and operating Kubernetes-based platforms, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, observability solutions, and enterprise platform services.
• Experience working in cross-functional environments collaborating with development, infrastructure, architecture, security, and operations teams to deliver scalable, secure, and highly available platform solutions.
• Proven hands-on experience designing, deploying, administering, and supporting Kubernetes-based platform ecosystems using Docker, Helm, and GitOps methodologies within large-scale microservices environments.
• Strong expertise in cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, and on-premises platform engineering, including hands-on experience with AWS services, VMware ESXi, vSphere, and enterprise infrastructure platforms.
• Deep understanding of Platform Engineering, DevOps, GitOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and CI/CD practices, with hands-on experience implementing and supporting automated delivery pipelines using Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitLab CI/CD, or equivalent technologies.
• Hands-on experience deploying, administering, and supporting event-driven and messaging platforms, including Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ, for reliable, scalable, and high-performance distributed systems.
• Strong experience managing enterprise data platforms, including PostgreSQL (HA clustering), MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Trino. Experience supporting analytics, reporting, enterprise search, business intelligence, and high-performance data platform solutions.
• Expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM) technologies, including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML, JWT, Keycloak, Active Directory integration, Kerberos Authentication, and enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) implementations.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, Build and Operate Scalable Platforms – Design, implement, and manage scalable, resilient, and highly available cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, and on-premises platform solutions that support enterprise applications and digital services.
• Develop Internal Developer Platforms and Self-Service Capabilities – Build and enhance platform services that enable self-service provisioning, deployment automation, environment management, and operational capabilities for development teams.
• Maintain Platform Architecture Standards and Best Practices – Adhere to established architectural guidelines, design principles, and technology standards for cloud platforms, microservices, container orchestration, messaging systems, databases, and integration services.
• Implement and Operate Kubernetes Platforms – Deploy, administer, and continuously improve Kubernetes-based platforms across cloud and on-premises enterprise data centres.
• Implement Kubernetes Security, Governance and Compliance Controls – Design and implement platform security controls using tools such as Kyverno, container image scanning, admission controllers, policy enforcement frameworks, secrets management solutions, and workload isolation mechanisms.
• Manage Event-Driven and Messaging Platforms – Deploy, operate, and optimize enterprise messaging and streaming platforms including Apache Kafka (KRaft) and RabbitMQ.
• Enable Continuous Delivery and Platform Automation – Design, implement, and support automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitLab, and related DevOps tools.
• Implement Identity, Access Management and Platform Security Services – Configure, deploy, and support enterprise authentication and authorization solutions using OAuth 2.0, JWT, SSO, and IAM platforms including Keycloak, Oracle IDMS, and Kerberos-based Windows Native Authentication.
• Manage Infrastructure as Code and Platform Automation – Implement, manage, and automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, and similar technologies.
• Administer Enterprise Data and Platform Services – Deploy, manage, and optimize PostgreSQL, MSSQL, MySQL, MongoDB environments; ensure backups, DR, and monitoring.
• Improve Platform Reliability, Observability and Operations – Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions across infrastructure and platforms; identify bottlenecks and drive improvements.
• Drive Platform Engineering Excellence and Continuous Improvement – Identify opportunities to reduce manual work through automation and scripting; contribute to modernization efforts.

Skills

Platform engineering

Kubernetes

CI/CD

DevOps

Automation

Tools

Jenkins

ArgoCD

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

Monthly Salary: Up to $9k (depends on experience)

• 1-year renewable contract
• Up to $9k (depends on experience)
• Mon to Fri: 8.30am–6pm
• Ang Mo Kio

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design, build, automate, and operate scalable, resilient, secure, and developer-friendly platforms across cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, and on-premises environments. This role is responsible for delivering and managing enterprise platform capabilities that enable application teams to rapidly develop, deploy, and operate services through standardized, self-service, and automated platform offerings.

The successful candidate will play a key role in platform architecture, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes ecosystem management, developer platform enablement, platform modernization, and operational excellence initiatives. Working closely with development, infrastructure, security, and architecture teams, the Platform Engineer will provide reliable, secure, and reusable platform services that accelerate software delivery while ensuring governance, compliance, scalability, and reliability.

Job Responsibilities:

• Deploy, Build and Operate Scalable Platforms – Design, implement, and manage scalable, resilient, and highly available cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, and on-premises platform solutions that support enterprise applications and digital services. Develop platform capabilities that provide standardized deployment, operational, security, and governance services for application teams.
• Develop Internal Developer Platforms and Self-Service Capabilities – Build and enhance platform services that enable self-service provisioning, deployment automation, environment management, and operational capabilities for development teams. Establish platform standards, reusable templates, golden paths, and developer enablement practices to improve productivity and consistency.
• Maintain Platform Architecture Standards and Best Practices – Adhere to established architectural guidelines, design principles, and technology standards for cloud platforms, microservices, container orchestration, messaging systems, databases, and integration services. Contribute to continuous improvements that enhance platform stability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Implement and Operate Kubernetes Platforms – Deploy, administer, and continuously improve Kubernetes-based platforms across cloud and on-premises enterprise data centres. Manage Helm-based application deployments, platform upgrades, capacity planning, infrastructure automation, and troubleshooting to ensure highly available and resilient services.
• Implement Kubernetes Security, Governance and Compliance Controls – Design and implement platform security controls using tools such as Kyverno, container image scanning, admission controllers, policy enforcement frameworks, secrets management solutions, and workload isolation mechanisms. Enforce RBAC, network segmentation, security baselines, compliance standards, and governance requirements across platform environments.
• Manage Event-Driven and Messaging Platforms – Deploy, operate, and optimize enterprise messaging and streaming platforms including Apache Kafka (KRaft) and RabbitMQ. Support event-driven architectures, platform scalability, performance optimization, cluster management, and operational resilience while enabling reliable communication between distributed systems.
• Enable Continuous Delivery and Platform Automation – Design, implement, and support automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitLab, and related DevOps tools. Ensure secure, reliable, and efficient software delivery through automation, deployment validation, release orchestration, and adherence to DevSecOps and governance requirements.
• Implement Identity, Access Management and Platform Security Services – Configure, deploy, and support enterprise authentication and authorization solutions using OAuth 2.0, JWT, Single Sign-On (SSO), and Identity & Access Management (IAM) platforms including Keycloak, Oracle IDMS (Oracle Access Manager), and Kerberos-based Windows Native Authentication (WNA). Integrate Active Directory (AD/LDAP) services and administer user federation, RBAC, access policies, and security controls to ensure compliance with enterprise security standards.
• Manage Infrastructure as Code and Platform Automation – Implement, manage, and automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, and similar technologies. Ensure consistency, repeatability, scalability, and operational excellence across development, testing, and production environments.
• Administer Enterprise Data and Platform Services – Deploy, manage, and optimize PostgreSQL (Patroni clustering), MSSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB environments. Support database availability, performance tuning, backup and recovery processes, replication, disaster recovery, and operational monitoring to ensure reliable and resilient database services.
• Improve Platform Reliability, Observability and Operations – Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions across infrastructure and application platforms using Grafana, Prometheus, Manage Engine etc. Proactively identify performance bottlenecks, resolve incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures to improve system reliability and operational efficiency.
• Drive Platform Engineering Excellence and Continuous Improvement – Identify opportunities to eliminate manual processes through automation and scripting using shell scripts, ansible etc. Contribute to operational excellence initiatives, platform modernization efforts, and continuous improvement of deployment, monitoring, security, and infrastructure management practices.

Period:

Location:

• Ang Mo Kio

Working hours:

• Mon to Fri: 8.30am–6pm
• Up to $9k (depends on experience)

Job Requirements:

• 5-8 years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or related technology roles supporting enterprise-scale cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, and on-premises environments.
• Proven experience designing, implementing, automating, and operating Kubernetes-based platforms, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, observability solutions, and enterprise platform services.
• Experience working in cross-functional environments collaborating with development, infrastructure, architecture, security, and operations teams to deliver scalable, secure, and highly available platform solutions.
• Proven hands-on experience designing, deploying, administering, and supporting Kubernetes-based platform ecosystems using Docker, Helm, and GitOps methodologies within large-scale microservices environments.
• Strong expertise in cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, and on-premises platform engineering, including hands-on experience with AWS services, VMware ESXi, vSphere, and enterprise infrastructure platforms.
• Deep understanding of Platform Engineering, DevOps, GitOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and CI/CD practices, with hands-on experience implementing and supporting automated delivery pipelines using Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitLab CI/CD, or equivalent technologies.
• Hands-on experience deploying, administering, and supporting event-driven and messaging platforms, including Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ, for reliable, scalable, and high-performance distributed systems.
• Strong experience managing enterprise data platforms, including PostgreSQL (HA clustering), MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Trino. Experience supporting analytics, reporting, enterprise search, business intelligence, and high-performance data platform solutions.
• Expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM) technologies, including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML, JWT, Keycloak, Active Directory integration, Kerberos Authentication, and enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) implementations.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management, utilizing Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or equivalent automation tools to provision, configure, and maintain infrastructure consistently across environments.
• Strong automation and scripting capabilities using Python, Shell Scripting, Ansible, Terraform, and API integrations to automate platform operations, provisioning, monitoring, governance, and system integrations.
• Experience implementing platform security, governance, compliance controls, and policy-as-code frameworks across Kubernetes, cloud, and enterprise platform environments.
• Strong experience in technical troubleshooting, incident management, and root cause analysis, with the ability to diagnose complex platforms, infrastructure, and application issues and implement sustainable solutions.
• Experience implementing and supporting monitoring, logging, and observability solutions using enterprise monitoring tools to ensure platform availability, performance, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in cross-functional engineering teams, participating in technical discussions, infrastructure reviews, deployment planning, and operational readiness activities to ensure successful solution delivery and support.

Interested applicants, kindly email your detailed resume (MS Word format is preferred):

[e-mail] (Reg No: R1332758)

Please ensure that applications sent through email are no bigger than 1Mb.

We thank all applicants for your interest but regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates would be notified.

Success Human Resource Centre Pte Ltd (EA License Number: 97C4832)

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