Senior Platform Engineer: Kubernetes, AI & Zero-Trust

GovTech Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

GovTech Singapore is hiring a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to lead Platform Engineering for TradeNet, driving the technical evolution of the core platform that supports government-wide software development. You will emphasize resilience, security compliance, observability, and developer efficiency, collaborating across squads, security, and architecture teams.

AI-assisted development workflows are used daily and adoption is encouraged.

Qualifications

• Experience architecting and operating production Kubernetes platforms on AWS for multiple engineering teams.
• Proven production experience with service mesh (Istio) and zero-trust infrastructure.
• Strong background in IaC and modern CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Architect multi-cluster Kubernetes foundations with zero-downtime and regional failover.
• Implement Istio Ambient mesh and fine-grained access controls.
• Establish observability, logging, metrics, alerts, and MTTR improvements.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Istio

Terraform

ArgoCD

Rollouts

GitOps

Security

Observability

CI/CD

Tools

ArgoCD

OpenTofu

Terraform

Job description

GovTech Singapore is hiring a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to lead Platform Engineering for TradeNet, driving the technical evolution of the core platform that supports government-wide software development. You will emphasize resilience, security compliance, observability, and developer efficiency, collaborating across squads, security, and architecture teams.

AI-assisted development workflows are used daily and adoption is encouraged.