Platform (PaaS/CaaS) Infrastructure Lead

COMBUILDER PTE LTD; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

COMBUILDER PTE LTD seeks an experienced Platform Operations Lead to manage container platforms and COTS services within a tenant environment above the hypervisor level. You will lead a team of 4–6 engineers to ensure reliability, security, and operability of Kubernetes-based infrastructure.

The role involves ownership of incidents, changes, RCA, platform lifecycle, OS hardening, monitoring, logging, and observability, plus collaboration with application and AFE teams for integration and issue

Qualifications

• 7–10 years infrastructure/platform experience.
• Strong Kubernetes / container platform experience.
• Experience with Docker / Podman.
• Experience installing and managing MongoDB, MSSQL, Nginx, Apache.
• Experience with messaging systems (IBM MQ, MQTT, Kafka equivalent).
• Understanding of network, firewall, load balancer (for troubleshooting).
• Linux administration and OS hardening.
• Monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK).
• Experience in government / regulated environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead platform operations team for container platforms and COTS services
• Manage incidents, changes, RCA, and platform lifecycle
• Install, configure, and troubleshoot COTS components
• Work with application and AFE teams for integration and issue resolution
• Maintain SOPs, runbooks, and architecture documentation
• Ensure monitoring, logging, and observability
• Support patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management
• Ensure OS hardening compliance (golden image)
• Drive capacity planning and performance tuning
• Lead DR/BCP activities
• Leading a team of 4–6 infrastructure engineers

Skills

Kubernetes

Container platforms

Docker

Podman

MongoDB

MSSQL

Nginx

Apache

IBM MQ

MQTT

Linux

OS hardening

Monitoring

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK

Networking basics

Incident management

Tools

Docker

Podman

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK

Job description

Manage and operate platform services in a tenant environment above hypervisor level.

Ensure reliability, security, and operability of container platforms and COTS components (MongoDB, Nginx, MQTT, IBM MQ, ArcGIS, etc.).

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead platform operations team for container platforms and COTS services
• Manage incidents, changes, RCA, and platform lifecycle
• Install, configure, and troubleshoot COTS components
• Work with application and Authority Furnised Equipment (AFE) teams for integration and issue resolution
• Maintain SOPs, runbooks, and architecture documentation
• Ensure monitoring, logging, and observability
• Support patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management
• Ensure OS hardening compliance (golden image)
• Drive capacity planning and performance tuning
• Lead DR/BCP activities
• Leading a team of 4–6 infrastructure engineers

Qualifications

• 7–10 years infrastructure/platform experience
• Strong Kubernetes / container platform experience
• Experience with Docker / Podman
• Experience installing and managing MongoDB, MSSQL, Nginx, Apache
• Experience with messaging systems (IBM MQ, MQTT, Kafka equivalent)
• Understanding of network, firewall, load balancer (for troubleshooting)
• Linux administration and OS hardening
• Monitoring tools (EG Monitoring, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK)
• Experience in government / regulated environments preferred

Preferred Skills

• Experience with CI/CD integration
• Automation (Ansible, scripting)
• Integration patterns (REST, messaging)
• Security compliance familiarity
• Platform (PaaS/CaaS), containers, COTS, OS hardening