Platform Specialist PLC

SQUAREPOINT SERVICES SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Squarepoint Services Singapore Pte. Ltd. is hiring a Platform Specialist to join our PLC team. You will architect, develop, and optimize compute platforms for data-intensive workloads, focusing on automation, performance, and developer enablement.

The role requires deep Linux administration, automation, and cloud skills, with collaboration across global teams and a hands-on engineering focus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience building scalable compute platforms and automation pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve scalable compute platforms using modern infrastructure engineering practices.
• Design and implement automation frameworks for provisioning, configuration management, and lifecycle operations.
• Develop internal tooling and APIs to abstract infrastructure complexity and improve productivity.
• Take part in bulk server provisioning with remote hands when needed.
• Drive observability by building and integrating telemetry pipelines (metrics, logs, traces).
• Collaborate with software engineering to ensure scalability, reliability, and security of infra.
• Mentor junior engineers and share best practices.
• Participate in on-call, incident response and postmortems, driving long-term improvements through automation and architecture changes.

Skills

Linux systems administration

Infrastructure automation

Python/Go/Rust for tooling

Observability and telemetry

On-call and incident response

Infrastructure design and DevOps

Mentoring juniors

Security-conscious engineering

Cloud-native architectures

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Ansible

Chef

SaltStack

Python

Go

Rust

AWS

GCP

Azure

Terraform

Pulumi

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Zabbix

ELK stack

Fluentd

OpenTelemetry

Jaeger

LDAP

Kerberos

OAuth2

S3

EBS

GKE

EKS

Cloud Functions

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Netbox IPAM

Job description

Position Overview:

Squarepoint is seeking a Platform Specialist to join our global Platform Compute (PLC) team. This role is ideal for experienced engineers with a strong software development background who are passionate about building scalable, resilient infrastructure systems. You will architect, develop, and optimize compute platforms that support our high-performance, data-intensive workloads. You'll work closely with global engineering teams to design and implement infrastructure-as-code, observability pipelines, and self-healing systems. This is a hands‑on engineering role with a strong emphasis on automation, performance tuning, and developer enablement.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Architect and evolve scalable compute platforms using modern infrastructure engineering practices.
• Design and implement automation frameworks for provisioning, configuration management, and lifecycle operations.
• Develop internal tooling and APIs to abstract infrastructure complexity and improve productivity.
• Take part in bulk server provisioning which may include using remote hands to complete tasks.
• Drive observability initiatives by building and integrating telemetry pipelines (metrics, logs, traces).
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to ensure infrastructure supports application scalability, reliability, and security.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices across the team.
• Participate in on-call, incident response and postmortems, driving long-term improvements through automation and architectural changes.

Qualifications/Skills Desired:

• Expert-level Linux systems administration (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu)
• Configuration management (e.g., Ansible, Chef, SaltStack)
• Proficient in Python, Go, or Rust for infrastructure tooling
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure (compute, storage, networking, IAM)
• Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi)
• Monitoring and alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Zabbix)
• Logging and tracing (e.g., ELK stack, Fluentd, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger
• Identity and access management (e.g., LDAP, Kerberos, OAuth2)
• Cloud-native services (e.g., S3, EBS, GKE, EKS, Cloud Functions)
• Git-based workflows and version control
• Agile methodologies and DevOps culture
• Test-driven infrastructure development and automated testing frameworks
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Nice to have:

• CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD)
• Hybrid cloud architecture and workload migration strategies
• Virtualization technologies (e.g., KVM, VMware, Hyper‑V)
• Contributions to open‑source infrastructure projects or internal developer platforms
• Containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)
• Secure system design and hardening (e.g., SELinux, AppArmor, CIS benchmarks)
• Experience with Netbox using IPAM and custom modules