Senior Engineer, IT System (DevOps)

Univac Precision Engineering Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Venture Corporation Limited in Singapore seeks a Senior Engineer, IT System (DevOps) based in Woodlands. You will own platform engineering, deployment and reliability of MES and data platforms across global sites, building scalable Kubernetes clusters, containerising in-house apps, and driving CI/CD pipelines with Terraform/Ansible for IaC.

You will ensure security, audits and cross‑functional collaboration.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

Job description

enture, a public listed company in SGX, is a leading global provider of technology services, products and solutions with established capabilities spanning marketing research, design, research and development. Over the years, Venture has built know-how and intellectual property with expertise in several technology domains. These include life science & genomics, molecular diagnostics, medical devices and equipment, healthcare and wellness technology, lifestyle consumer technology, health improvement products, instrumentation, test and measurement technology, networking and communications, fintech, as well as computing, printing and imaging technology.

Headquartered in Singapore, the Group comprises over 30 companies with global clusters in Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, America and Europe, and employs over 12,000 people globally.

At Venture, our people are our most valuable asset. We are committed to unifying culture, encouraging innovation, and harnessing the collective strengths and synergies of our human capital to deliver compelling differentiation, advancing Venture’s position as a leading global provider of technology solutions, products and services.

We’re looking to add aSenior Engineer, IT System (DevOps)inSingapore. The position is based inWoodlands.

As aSenior Engineer, IT System (DevOps), you will:

Serve as a senior technical owner for the platform engineering, deployment and reliability of our containerized Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Data Platform applications, Group IT eApplications and Cloud architecture across Venture Global sites.

1. Architect, build and govern production Kubernetes / AWS EKS clusters that run the container-based MES/VMES and group-wide in-house applications, ensuring scalability, resilience and standardization across all sites
2. Work with development teams to optimise and containerize Group wide in-house applications and MES using high-performance architecture/platform, ensuring smooth and reliable deployment.
3. Build and maintain automated deployment pipelines (CI/CD) using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or Azure DevOps, including build, automated test, containerisation, security scanning, rollback and progressive deployment strategies.
4. Set and enforce infrastructure-as-code standards (Terraform / Ansible), GitOps practices, and Helm-based release management to prevent configuration sprawl across sites
5. Automate provisioning, scaling, patching and updates; write Python and scripting to automate operational tasks and data movement between machines, subsystems and the MES.
6. Establish observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/CloudWatch) and lead monitoring, alerting, incident response and root-cause analysis to ensure high availability of production-critical MES services.
7. Work closely with developers, QA, and other teams to improve the Application & MES platform and support daily production needs.
8. Ensure all deployments and infrastructure changes meet cybersecurity, audit and regulatory standards (e.g. ISO 27001, NIST CSF, FDA 21 CFR Part 11) with proper documentation and change control.
9. Lead containerisation and integration of MES with SAP, machines, data loggers, middleware, ETLs, data lake and dashboards, ensuring reliable real-time and batch data flows.
10. Lead or govern upgrades, migrations and new VMES site rollouts, integrating new manufacturing capabilities and technologies (APS, QMS, IIoT, analytics/AI).
11. Act as the DevOps technical authority in vendor and system-integrator engagements, validating deliverables through architecture, performance and security reviews.

Requirements

1. Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent.
2. Minimum 5–8 years of relevant DevOps / platform engineering experience, including at least 3 years running production Kubernetes / AWS EKS at scale (senior-level ownership)
3. Experience in Manufacturing Process & Manufacturing Execution Systems knowledge is a plus.
4. Manufacturing Execution Systems / other major applications Development & Deployment via Kubernetes platform is a Must.
5. Proven, hands‑on experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or Azure DevOps) and infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform, Ansible).
6. Strong understanding of containerised Kubernetes/EKS architecture and components, imaging, orchestration, networking, autoscaling, Helm/GitOps, secrets management.
7. Familiarity with common Linux distributions (Ubuntu, RHEL, SUSE) and cloud (AWS) security and networking (VPC, IAM, EKS, Secrets Manager).
8. Experience with system architecture relevant to Univac Singapore and the Venture MES group — MES/MOM platforms, SAP–MES integration, ISA‑95 / ISA‑88 frameworks, and machine/IIoT data integration.
9. Programming/scripting in Python, C#, C++, React.js, Node.js, and PLC programming; knowledge of SQL, PostgreSQL and YAML is required.
10. Experience with dashboarding (Apache Superset, Power BI), data lake (MinIO + Trino SQL), observability tooling and middleware for IoT data integration is an advantage.
11. Analytical, meticulous, strong troubleshooting; able to communicate with people at all levels and influence stakeholders.
12. Able to work independently, lead projects end‑to‑end, mentor engineers, and travel to regional sites as required.

If you embody the spirit of excellence, passion for discovery, innovation and enterprise, and the desire to make a difference in the world of technology and electronics, come join the Venture team!

Be Part of the Global Venture Family.

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