Principal IT Infrastructure Engineer – On-Prem & Data Center

Network For Electronic Transfers (S); Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Network For Electronic Transfers (S) is seeking an IT Infrastructure Principal Engineer in Singapore to lead the operations and reliability of on-premises infrastructure, including servers, storage, networks, and data centers.

You will drive incident response, capacity planning, security controls, and cross-team collaboration with application and security groups, ensuring performance, availability, and regulatory compliance for critical services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT or related field.
• At least 10 years of IT Infrastructure experience with hands-on hardware, networking, storage, and data centers.
• Experience managing on-premises infrastructure and security controls.

Responsibilities

• Oversee installation, configuration, patching, and maintenance of hardware and system software for on-premises environments.
• Ensure high availability, performance, and security of all infrastructure systems supporting business operations.
• Manage physical data centers, server rooms, racks, cabling, and environmental equipment.
• Lead infrastructure troubleshooting and incident resolution, ensuring minimal downtime and rapid response.
• Coordinate infrastructure upgrades, hardware refreshes, and capacity planning.
• Implement and enforce security controls for on-premises systems in alignment with organizational policies.
• Maintain accurate infrastructure documentation, inventory, and asset tracking.
• Collaborate with application, security teams for seamless IT operations.
• Provide technical guidance (Windows, Linux, Storage, Network), mentoring, and leadership to infrastructure support teams.
• Support business continuity and disaster recovery planning for on-premises infrastructure.

Skills

IT security

ITIL processes

Troubleshooting

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

NetWorker

Veeam

SAN/NAS storage

Data center operations

Job description

Network For Electronic Transfers (S) is seeking an IT Infrastructure Principal Engineer in Singapore to lead the operations and reliability of on-premises infrastructure, including servers, storage, networks, and data centers.

You will drive incident response, capacity planning, security controls, and cross-team collaboration with application and security groups, ensuring performance, availability, and regulatory compliance for critical services.