SENIOR PLATFORM & SECURITY ENGINEER - DIGITAL SERVICES & TECHNOLOGY OFFICE

Ngee Ann Polytechnic; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 134,000; Full time

Job summary

Ngee Ann Polytechnic is seeking a Platform Operations & Security Engineer to design, build, secure, and operate the Enterprise Data & AI platform, ensuring reliability, cost efficiency, and governance compliance.

This role owns both the technical platform layer (clusters, jobs, CI/CD, monitoring) and the security layer (encryption, IAM, audit). This is a 2-year contract position with the Digital Services & Technology Office.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in cloud platform engineering or security engineering.
• 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 components (Databricks workspaces, clusters, SQL warehouses, endpoints, workflows).
• Automate provisioning and deployments using Terraform, Databricks CLI, or APIs.
• Design and govern CI/CD frameworks for ETL/ML deployments with secure, compliant delivery workflows.
• Monitor platform usage, cost trends, and optimize performance of workloads.
• Maintain platform reliability and meet uptime and service-level objectives.

Skills

Cloud platform engineering

Security engineering

Governance & compliance

Collaboration

Risk identification

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Databricks

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

KMS

Job description

What the role is

To design, build, secure, and operate the Enterprise Data & AI platform, ensuring it is reliable, cost-efficient, and compliant with enterprise governance standards. This role owns both the technical platform layer (clusters, jobs, CI/CD, monitoring) and the security layer (encryption, IAM, audit).

What the role is

To design, build, secure, and operate the Enterprise Data & AI platform, ensuring it is reliable, cost-efficient, and compliant with enterprise governance standards. This role owns both the technical platform layer (clusters, jobs, CI/CD, monitoring) and the security layer (encryption, IAM, audit). This is a 2-year contract position with the Digital Services & Technology Office.

What you will be working on

Platform Operations

• 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.

Security Engineering

• 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).

Collaboration

• Work closely with Data Engineers, Governance Leads, and Analysts to ensure data pipelines, workflows, and products adhere to security and platform standards.
• Work closely with CI/CD team to integrate monitoring and alerting into observability stack.
• Advise leadership on platform performance and security posture and risks, optimisation opportunities, as well as compliance gaps.

What we are looking for

• 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.

Skills & Certifications

• Certifications:
  • Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent.
  • Cloud security certs: Azure Security Engineer Associate / AWS Security Specialty / GCP Security Engineer.
  • Infrastructure-as-code: Terraform or equivalent.
  • Databricks Certified Administrator or Databricks Security Engineer is a plus
• Technical Skills:
  • Cloud IAM, KMS, VPC/VNet, firewall/security groups.
  • Encryption standards (AES, envelope encryption).
  • CI/CD (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
  • Databricks platform administration (clusters, jobs, SQL warehouses, UC integration).
• Other Skills:
  • Strong knowledge of monitoring/observability stacks (e.g. Azure Monitor).
  • Incident response and audit log analysis.
  • Experience in GCC/GCC2.0 is a plus.

Attributes

• Reliability-focused and security-first mindset with attention to detail.
• Strong collaborator with engineering, governance, and leadership.
• Proactive in risk identification and mitigation.
• Balanced approach: performance and cost optimization while ensuring compliance.