Senior Platform & Security Engineer, Data & AI Platform

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

Job summary

GovTech Singapore is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, secure, and operate the Enterprise Data & AI platform, owning both the technical platform and security controls. You will oversee CI/CD, monitoring, encryption, IAM, and audit to ensure reliable, compliant deployments within a 2-year contract under the Digital Services & Technology Office.

Ideal candidates have 3–5 years in cloud or security engineering, with experience in regulated environments and Databricks, Terraform, and

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in cloud platform engineering or security engineering.
• Proven experience managing and securing large-scale data or ML platforms.
• Prior work in regulated industries (finance, healthcare, government) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Configure and maintain Enterprise Data and AI platform (e.g. Databricks workspaces, clusters, SQL warehouses, endpoints and workflows).
• Automate provisioning and deployments using Terraform, Databricks CLI, or APIs.
• Design and govern CI/CD frameworks used by Data Engineers for ETL/ML deployments, ensuring secure, compliant, and automated delivery workflows.
• Monitor platform usage, cost trends, and optimize performance of workloads.
• Maintain platform reliability and meet defined uptime and service-level objectives.
• Implement and maintain security controls for the enterprise data platform, including encryption, secrets management, and secure access patterns.
• Define and enforce role-based and attribute-based access policies across data assets and cloud compute resources.
• Configure secret scopes and secure service principal access.
• Monitor platform audit and activity logs to detect policy violations, anomalous access, and compliance risks.
• Ensure platform operations align with NP’s security, compliance, and regulatory requirements (e.g., IM8, NIST, GDPR. PDPA where applicable).

Skills

Cloud platform engineering

Security engineering

CI/CD & observability

IAM & access control

Cost optimization

Regulated industries experience

Education

Degree or Diploma in Computer Science/Engineering/IT

Tools

Databricks

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Databricks CLI

Job description

GovTech Singapore is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, secure, and operate the Enterprise Data & AI platform, owning both the technical platform and security controls. You will oversee CI/CD, monitoring, encryption, IAM, and audit to ensure reliable, compliant deployments within a 2-year contract under the Digital Services & Technology Office.

Ideal candidates have 3–5 years in cloud or security engineering, with experience in regulated environments and Databricks, Terraform, and