Senior Platform Engineer – Kubernetes & Cloud Platform

Success Human Resource Centre Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 91,000 - 109,000; Full time

Job summary

Success Human Resource Centre Pte Ltd is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design, build, automate, and operate scalable, resilient, secure platforms across cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, and on-premises environments.

The role focuses on delivering enterprise platform capabilities enabling rapid development, deployment, and operation of services through standardized, self-service, and automated offerings.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or related technology roles supporting enterprise-scale cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, and on-premises environments.
• Proven experience designing, implementing, automating, and operating Kubernetes-based platforms, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, observability solutions, and enterprise platform services.
• Experience working in cross-functional environments collaborating with development, infrastructure, architecture, security, and operations teams to deliver scalable, secure, and highly available platform solutions.
• Proven hands-on experience designing, deploying, administering, and supporting Kubernetes-based platform ecosystems using Docker, Helm, and GitOps methodologies within large-scale microservices environments.
• Strong expertise in cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, and on-premises platform engineering, including hands-on experience with AWS services, VMware ESXi, vSphere, and enterprise infrastructure platforms.
• Deep understanding of Platform Engineering, DevOps, GitOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and CI/CD practices, with hands-on experience implementing and supporting automated delivery pipelines using Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitLab CI/CD, or equivalent technologies.
• Hands-on experience deploying, administering, and supporting event-driven and messaging platforms, including Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ, for reliable, scalable, and high-performance distributed systems.
• Strong experience managing enterprise data platforms, including PostgreSQL (HA clustering), MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Trino. Experience supporting analytics, reporting, enterprise search, business intelligence, and high-performance data platform solutions.
• Expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM) technologies, including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML, JWT, Keycloak, Active Directory integration, Kerberos Authentication, and enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) implementations.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, Build and Operate Scalable Platforms – Design, implement, and manage scalable, resilient, and highly available cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, and on-premises platform solutions that support enterprise applications and digital services.
• Develop Internal Developer Platforms and Self-Service Capabilities – Build and enhance platform services that enable self-service provisioning, deployment automation, environment management, and operational capabilities for development teams.
• Maintain Platform Architecture Standards and Best Practices – Adhere to established architectural guidelines, design principles, and technology standards for cloud platforms, microservices, container orchestration, messaging systems, databases, and integration services.
• Implement and Operate Kubernetes Platforms – Deploy, administer, and continuously improve Kubernetes-based platforms across cloud and on-premises enterprise data centres.
• Implement Kubernetes Security, Governance and Compliance Controls – Design and implement platform security controls using tools such as Kyverno, container image scanning, admission controllers, policy enforcement frameworks, secrets management solutions, and workload isolation mechanisms.
• Manage Event-Driven and Messaging Platforms – Deploy, operate, and optimize enterprise messaging and streaming platforms including Apache Kafka (KRaft) and RabbitMQ.
• Enable Continuous Delivery and Platform Automation – Design, implement, and support automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitLab, and related DevOps tools.
• Implement Identity, Access Management and Platform Security Services – Configure, deploy, and support enterprise authentication and authorization solutions using OAuth 2.0, JWT, SSO, and IAM platforms including Keycloak, Oracle IDMS, and Kerberos-based Windows Native Authentication.
• Manage Infrastructure as Code and Platform Automation – Implement, manage, and automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, and similar technologies.
• Administer Enterprise Data and Platform Services – Deploy, manage, and optimize PostgreSQL, MSSQL, MySQL, MongoDB environments; ensure backups, DR, and monitoring.
• Improve Platform Reliability, Observability and Operations – Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions across infrastructure and platforms; identify bottlenecks and drive improvements.
• Drive Platform Engineering Excellence and Continuous Improvement – Identify opportunities to reduce manual work through automation and scripting; contribute to modernization efforts.

Skills

Platform engineering

Kubernetes

CI/CD

DevOps

Automation

Tools

Jenkins

ArgoCD

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

Success Human Resource Centre Pte Ltd is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design, build, automate, and operate scalable, resilient, secure platforms across cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, and on-premises environments.

The role focuses on delivering enterprise platform capabilities enabling rapid development, deployment, and operation of services through standardized, self-service, and automated offerings.