Platform Engineer – Cloud & On-Prem Infra for Aviation

CAA Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The Next Generation Programme Office (NGPO) Strategy branch at CAA Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore is seeking motivated platform engineers. You will design, implement, and maintain either cloud-based or on-premises infrastructure and platform services for the Next Generation ANS, depending on deployment needs.

Join a team focused on robust, scalable infrastructure solutions, collaborating with developers, architects, and other stakeholders while embracing automation, monitoring, and

Qualifications

• Trained in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or equivalent.
• Platform engineering and infrastructure management experience in either cloud or on-premises environments.
• Knowledge of either cloud-native architectures and microservices patterns OR traditional infrastructure patterns and distributed systems design.
• Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, OpenShift).
• Monitoring and observability stack (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog).
• For Cloud Platform Focus - AWS, Azure; For On-Premises Focus - VMware, Ansible/Puppet/Chef.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain platform solutions for cloud or on-premises environments.
• Manage cloud-native or on-premises infrastructure including compute, storage, networking and managed services.
• Automate deployments using Infrastructure as Code and configuration management.
• Design and manage containerised environments with orchestration platforms.
• Collaborate with software developers and architects to deploy scalable platform solutions.
• Implement monitoring, logging and alerting for platform health and performance.
• Apply security best practices and ensure compliance for aviation systems.
• Maintain and optimise data pipelines and analytics workloads as needed.
• Perform deployment, integration testing and validation in production.

Skills

Platform engineering

Infrastructure management

CI/CD / DevOps

SRE exposure

Scripting (Python, Bash, Go)

Container orchestration

Education

Computer Science / IT / Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Helm

Kustomize

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Datadog

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

VMware vSphere

Job description

The Next Generation Programme Office (NGPO) Strategy branch at CAA Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore is seeking motivated platform engineers. You will design, implement, and maintain either cloud-based or on-premises infrastructure and platform services for the Next Generation ANS, depending on deployment needs.

Join a team focused on robust, scalable infrastructure solutions, collaborating with developers, architects, and other stakeholders while embracing automation, monitoring, and