Site Reliability Engineering (Contract)

Nicoll Curtin; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nicoll Curtin is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to support the reliability, availability and performance of production services in Central Singapore on-site for a 6–12 month renewable contract. You will monitor, troubleshoot incidents, perform RCA, and drive automation, runbook improvements and SRE practices.

The role requires 5–7 years in software engineering (JavaScript/Java/Python/.NET), 2–4 years in SRE/production support, and 3+ years AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, plus

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of software engineering experience using JavaScript, Java, Python, or .NET.
• 2–4 years of SRE or production support experience for high-availability systems.
• Minimum 3 years of AWS experience, including cloud services and infrastructure management.
• Minimum 3 years of containerisation experience with Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, and Helm.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD workflows, GitHub Actions, and JFrog.
• Strong Linux administration and Shell scripting capability.
• Experience with observability and log aggregation tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, and Datadog.
• Sound knowledge of service monitoring, alerting, SLIs/SLOs, incident response, RCA, and post-incident actions.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, written, and verbal communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Monitor production services to maintain platform availability, stability, and performance.
• Troubleshoot incidents, drive timely resolution, and communicate updates to technical and business stakeholders.
• Perform root-cause analysis, manage post-incident follow-up, and implement reliability improvements.
• Define and manage monitoring, alerts, SLIs, and SLOs for critical services.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks, improve runbooks, and reduce manual support effort.
• Diagnose complex issues across application, infrastructure, container, and cloud layers.
• Improve developer workflows and enhance the developer experience.
• Participate in on-call support for critical production services where required.
• Promote best practices across software engineering, SRE, and DevOps.

Skills

JavaScript

Java

Python

.NET

SRE

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Linux

Observability

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

EKS

Helm

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

JFrog

Job description

Site Reliability Engineer

Industry / Domain: Developer Platforms / Production Support

Location: Central, Singapore (On-site)

Contract: 06-12 monthsrenewable contract (renewable based on project demand)

Job Summary

The Site Reliability Engineer will support the reliability, availability, and performance. This role focuses on production support, incident resolution, root-cause analysis, monitoring, automation, runbook improvements, and reducing manual operational effort across critical services.

Scope of work

• Monitor production services to maintain platform availability, stability, and performance.
• Troubleshoot incidents, drive timely resolution, and communicate updates to technical and business stakeholders.
• Perform root-cause analysis, manage post-incident follow-up, and implement reliability improvements.
• Define and manage monitoring, alerts, SLIs, and SLOs for critical services.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks, improve runbooks, and reduce manual support effort.
• Diagnose complex issues across application, infrastructure, container, and cloud layers.
• Improve developer workflows and enhance the developer experience.
• Participate in on-call support for critical production services where required.
• Promote best practices across software engineering, SRE, and DevOps.

Required Experience & Skills

• 5-7 years of software engineering experience using JavaScript, Java, Python, or .NET.
• 2-4 years of SRE or production support experience for high-availability systems.
• Minimum 3 years of AWS experience, including cloud services and infrastructure management.
• Minimum 3 years of containerisation experience with Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, and Helm.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD workflows, GitHub Actions, and JFrog.
• Strong Linux administration and Shell scripting capability.
• Experience with observability and log aggregation tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, and Datadog.
• Sound knowledge of service monitoring, alerting, SLIs/SLOs, incident response, RCA, and post-incident actions.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, written, and verbal communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.