Platform Engineer & Data Exploration Platform Management

Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A national security organization in Singapore is seeking a talented engineer to manage its Data Exploration Platform. The role involves developing scalable solutions, optimizing platform performance, and ensuring security compliance. Ideal candidates should have a background in Computer Engineering or Computer Science and possess strong skills in data science, programming, and DevOps tools. The position offers a purposeful and meaningful work environment, collaboration with top engineers, and a commitment to work-life balance.

Benefits

Purposeful and meaningful work

Work with top engineers

Modern technologies and tech stacks

Excellent engineering culture

Work-life balance

Empowerment to innovate

Qualifications

• Experience with agile development methodologies, such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Experience working in an agile and innovative environment.
• Good understanding of data modeling, data architecture, and data quality principles.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy reliable, scalable and secure Data Exploration Platform solutions.
• Manage the platform, including upgrades, patches, and configuration changes.
• Optimize performance by troubleshooting data processing and query performance issues.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and implement changes.
• Ensure security and compliance, implementing data access controls.
• Provide technical expertise to stakeholders, including training and guidance.

Skills

Knowledge of data science and machine learning concepts

Programming languages (Scala, Python, Java)

DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines

Data modelling, architecture, and quality principles

Agile development methodologies

Education

Background in Computer Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Python

R

SQL

Ansible

Kubernetes

Tableau Server

AWS

Azure

Job description

CSIT develops products to advance the national security interests of Singapore. We use our products in a wide range of operations, including but not limited to Counter-terrorism and Computer NetworkDefence.

Join the awesome CSIT family and use cutting-edge technologies to protect the nation. We are looking for a talented engineer to manage the Data Exploration Platform. This platform helps our users to understand and derive insights from their data. It allows users to explore, visualize, and interact with data in a flexible and intuitive way.

Role

• We are seeking an experienced engineer to join our team, responsible for managing and optimizing our Data Exploration Platform. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the resiliency, stability, security and performance of our platform, as well as providing technical expertise to support the development of data analytics and visualizations solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy reliable, scalable and secure Data Exploration Platform solutions
• Manage the platform, including upgrades, patches, configuration changes, system resource allocation and utilization
• Optimize the performance of our platform, including troubleshooting and resolving issues related to data processing and query performance
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and implement changes to optimize the use of our platform.
• Ensure the security and compliance of our platform, including implementing and enforcing data access controls, authentication and authorization.
• Provide technical expertise and support to our stakeholders, including training and guidance on the use of our platform.
• Identify technology and system pitfalls and bring industry standards and best practices to the team

Requirements (Minimum Qualifications)

• Background in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Good Knowledge of data science and machine learning concepts and tools, such as Python, R, or SQL.
• Good understanding of data modelling, data architecture, and data quality principles.
• Experience with agile development methodologies, such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Competent in programming languages such as Scala, Python, Java
• Competent in using DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines effectively

Nice to Have

• Good technical skills in areas such as data warehousing, ETL, data governance, and data visualization.
• Experience with cluster management and DevOps tools (e.g. Ansible, Kubernetes)
• Experience working in an agile and innovative environment
• Experience in distributed systems
• Experience with cloud-based analytics platforms, such as AWS or Azure.
• Experience with Tableau Server, including design, implementation, and maintenance.

Why join us?

• The work is purposeful and meaningful
• You will work with the best engineers
• We work with modern technologies and tech stacks
• We have excellent engineering culture and work-life balance
• We aspire to engineering and operational excellence
• We empower to innovate
• We grow together as a family

As CSIT is an agency under the Ministry of Defence (Singapore), only Singapore Citizens will be considered.