Senior Platform Engineer

Sygnum Singapore; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-based salary

Flexible / Work from home policies

Mentoring and Buddy programmes

One-month fully paid sabbatical after

Job summary

Sygnum Singapore is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to evolve our cloud foundation. You’ll split time between building platform capabilities and running upgrades, on-call, and hardening in a regulated fintech setting.

You’ll advance our AWS landing zone, Kubernetes platform, and shared services, while improving self-service tooling and guardrails for product teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Platform / SRE / DevOps with production ownership.
• Deep AWS hands-on experience: IAM, VPC, and managed Kubernetes (EKS).
• Terraform in production with PR/plan-review workflow.
• Solid Kubernetes operational chops: troubleshooting, autoscaling, GitOps.
• On-call rotation and incident response leadership.
• Clear written communication for runbooks and postmortems.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship improvements to our AWS multi-account landing zone and shared networking / IAM baselines, all through Terraform and a PR-driven plan/apply workflow.
• Operate and evolve our managed Kubernetes platform: cluster lifecycle, workload identity, autoscaling, node image hardening, and GitOps-based delivery.
• Own or co-own shared platform services: API gateway, event streaming, service mesh, certificates, secrets management, and the metrics/traces/SLO stack.
• Improve the paved road for product teams — templates, modules, guardrails, and self-service.
• Participate in the platform on-call rotation, lead incident response when needed, and drive blameless postmortems.
• Contribute to our reliability posture: SLO tiers, backup and DR readiness, and security baselines.
• Keep changes auditable and release-disciplined in a regulated environment.

Skills

Platform / SRE / DevOps

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

On-call / incident response

Written communication

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes (EKS)

Atlantis

Terragrunt

GitOps

Job description

Sygnum is a global digital asset banking group, founded on Swiss and Singaporean heritage. We empower professional and institutional investors, banks, corporates and distributed ledger technology (DLT) companies to invest in digital assets with complete trust. Our team enables this through our institutional-grade security, expert personal service and portfolio of regulated digital asset banking, asset management, tokenisation and B2B services.

In Switzerland, Sygnum holds a banking licence and has CMS and Major Payment Institution Licences in Singapore. The group is also regulated in the established global financial hubs of Abu Dhabi and Luxembourg.

We believe that future has heritage. Our crypto-native team of banking, investment and digital asset technology professionals are building a trusted gateway between the traditional and digital asset economies that we call Future Finance. To learn more about how Sygnum’s mission and values are shaping this digital asset ecosystem, please visit sygnum.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Our Values

A key pillar of our success is the Sygnum values that define and unite us a team. We proudly call them our SYGN values:

• S stands for the importance we hold in Seeking and seizing opportunities, and the way we take personal ownership for delivering results for our clients;
• Y represents the way we say Yes to integrity and humility in everything we do. Sygnumers always display confidence without attitude;
• G reminds us to always Grow and win together. We only succeed by supporting each other and challenging ourselves, and our team-mates, to reach for new heights;
• N stands for Nose for value because we are always looking to focus on what matters most to our clients, partners and team.

Sygnum has one of the most diverse teams in the industry. Diversity plays a central role in keeping our work culture open, our teams productive and energised, and our solutions at the forefront of the industry. In the spirit of our SYGN value to “grow and win together”, we fully embrace an equal opportunity mindset in the way we onboard, develop and promote our team members.

About the role

Sygnum’s Platform team builds and operates the cloud foundation that every product engineering team ship on: the AWS landing zone, our Kubernetes platform, and the shared services (API gateway, event streaming, secrets, observability, delivery) that turn raw cloud into a product-ready runway. We’re a small team with a large surface area, and we run a regulated fintech environment where every change is auditable.

We’re hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to help evolve that platform — pushing the developer experience forward while keeping reliability, security, and cost under control. You’ll split your time roughly between building (new platform capabilities, module work, self-service tooling) and running (upgrades, on-call, incident response, hardening).

What you’ll do

• Design and ship improvements to our AWS multi-account landing zone and shared networking / IAM baselines, all through Terraform and a PR-driven plan/apply workflow — no click-ops in production.
• Operate and evolve our managed Kubernetes platform: cluster lifecycle, workload identity, autoscaling, node image hardening, and GitOps-based delivery.
• Own or co-own shared platform services: API gateway, event streaming, service mesh, certificates, secrets management, and the metrics/traces/SLO stack.
• Improve the paved road for product teams — templates, modules, guardrails, and self-service — so the safe path is also the easy path.
• Participate in the platform on-call rotation, lead incident response when needed, and drive blameless postmortems that actually change how the system behaves.
• Contribute to our reliability posture: SLO tiers, backup and DR readiness, and security baselines (encryption, TLS, least-privilege IAM).
• Keep changes auditable and release-disciplined — we operate in a regulated environment, and infrastructure changes must remain traceable.

Must-have:

• 5+ years in Platform / SRE / DevOps roles with production ownership of cloud infrastructure at meaningful scale.
• Deep AWS hands-on experience: IAM, VPC and networking, and managed Kubernetes (EKS or equivalent).
• Terraform in production, with a PR/plan-review workflow (Atlantis, Terragrunt, or similar).
• Solid Kubernetes operational chops: troubleshooting real workloads, autoscaling, GitOps delivery.
• Comfortable on an on-call rotation and leading incident response under pressure.
• Clear written communication — runbooks, postmortems, and design notes that other teams can actually use.

Nice-to-have:

• Regulated-industry experience (banking, fintech, healthcare) with audit and change-control constraints.
• Familiarity with any of: API gateways (Kong or similar), event streaming (Kafka/MSK), service mesh (Istio/Envoy).
• Exposure to a secondary cloud (Azure/GCP) or multi-cloud operations.
• Contributions to internal developer platforms, shared Terraform modules, or open-source infrastructure tooling.

Our Offer

Joining Sygnum means being part of a dynamic, global team that is building a trusted gateway between the traditional and digital asset economies. Working at Sygnum, you will experience our fast-paced, exciting work environment that embraces meritocracy, collaboration and open communication. Alongside our ambitious long-term vision, we also come together for reaching important milestones and annual crypto-industry anniversaries like Bitcoin Pizza Day and regularly celebrate our joint achievements at company events as part of our journey to shape Future Finance.

Sygnum offers a comprehensive package of benefits for all team members. They include:

• Attractive combination of market salaries and entrepreneurial incentive scheme
• Flexible / Work from home policies
• Professional development via Mentoring and Buddy programmes as well as targeted training opportunities
• One-month fully paid sabbatical after five years of continuous employment