Senior Platform Engineer – Cloud, Automation & Resilience

Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech); Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

GovTech, Singapore's lead agency for Smart Nation and public sector digital transformation, seeks a hands-on Platform Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, automate, and operate modern infrastructure platforms across cloud and hybrid environments. The role emphasizes reliability, observability, security, and resilience for critical government services.

You will collaborate with application, security, cloud, and operations teams to enable scalable platform capabilities while reducing toil and

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• Experience in cloud infrastructure engineering and operations.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, or similar tooling.
• Experience operating Kubernetes or container platforms.
• Familiarity with observability platforms (Dynatrace/Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch).
• Understanding of infrastructure security, IAM, networking, resiliency.
• Experience supporting production environments and incident response.
• Scripting in Python, Bash or similar.
• Strong troubleshooting and communication skills.
• Experience leveraging AI/ML driven tools for operational insights, automation or observability.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure platforms across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and hybrid environments.
• Develop and maintain IaC using Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Support platform observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and dashboards.
• Improve infrastructure reliability, resiliency, failover readiness and standards.
• Support container platforms including Kubernetes and related tooling.
• Automate processes, patching, provisioning, compliance checks, and reporting.
• Support security hardening and vulnerability remediation.
• Troubleshoot incidents across compute, network, storage and cloud services.
• Partner with application teams to improve cloud-native adoption and readiness.
• Contribute to platform engineering standards and reusable modules.
• Support migration and modernization from legacy to cloud.

Skills

Cloud infra

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD pipelines

Python / Bash

Observability

IAM / security

Incident response

Stakeholder communication

AI/ML for ops

Education

Bachelor's or higher in CS/Engineering/Info Systems

Tools

Dynatrace

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

GitHub Actions

Job description

GovTech, Singapore's lead agency for Smart Nation and public sector digital transformation, seeks a hands-on Platform Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, automate, and operate modern infrastructure platforms across cloud and hybrid environments. The role emphasizes reliability, observability, security, and resilience for critical government services.

You will collaborate with application, security, cloud, and operations teams to enable scalable platform capabilities while reducing toil and