Senior Platform Engineer - Kubernetes, AWS, GitOps

Government Technology Agency; Singapore; On-site; SGD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

GovTech is seeking an experienced Senior/Staff Software Engineer to lead Platform Engineering for TradeNet. You will design scalable Kubernetes foundations on AWS, implement Istio-based security and observability, and drive GitOps with modern CI/CD practices.

You will mentor engineers, define engineering standards, and collaborate with security and architecture teams to ensure resilience, compliance, and production readiness at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software/platform engineering; 3+ years architecting Kubernetes on AWS.
• Experience with Istio (Ambient or sidecar).
• Expert in Terraform with reusable modules used across orgs.
• Deep AWS enterprise experience (multi-account, VPC, Transit Gateway, egress filtering).
• Practical GitOps, security remediation, SIEM integration, and architectural compliance.

Responsibilities

• Architect multi-cluster Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS with zero downtime and regional failover.
• Implement Istio Ambient mesh and mTLS with fine-grained policies.
• Establish observability, logging, metrics and alerting to improve MTTR.
• Build golden paths with Terraform/OpenTofu and reference architectures.
• Standardize declarative CD using ArgoCD and Rollouts across clusters.
• Mentor engineers and enforce engineering standards across TradeNet.
• Collaborate with security, architecture and product squads to set platform standards.

Skills

Kubernetes on AWS

Istio

Terraform

AWS Cloud

GitOps

Leadership

Tools

ArgoCD

Terraform Modules

Job description

GovTech is seeking an experienced Senior/Staff Software Engineer to lead Platform Engineering for TradeNet. You will design scalable Kubernetes foundations on AWS, implement Istio-based security and observability, and drive GitOps with modern CI/CD practices.

You will mentor engineers, define engineering standards, and collaborate with security and architecture teams to ensure resilience, compliance, and production readiness at scale.