Software Engineer

Hitachi Rail Limited; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Networking through internal networks

Permanent position in a global company

Attractive employee benefits

Job summary

Hitachi Rail Singapore is seeking a Software Engineer to deliver digital products hosted on cloud platforms. You’ll work in an agile, multinational team, focusing on UI, API, data analytics, and secure deployments. Strong cloud, DevSecOps, and CI/CD experience are essential.

Requirements include a software engineering degree and 5+ years of experience (or 3+ with a Master’s), plus hands-on Kubernetes, Docker, Python, and SQL skills. Prior railway/critical-system exposure is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent with 5+ years of experience or a Master’s degree with 3+ years of experience.
• Cloud Certifications are desirable.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, validate, demonstrate and operate Software and System solutions/services, including provisioning, packaging, deployment and administration.
• Deliver high-quality, best-practice clean code via CICD Pipelines.
• Manage and maintain platform deployments with DevSecOps approaches.
• Utilize Cloud platform to meet project requirements with cybersecurity considerations.
• Work in an agile, cross-functional multinational team to support team success.
• Collaborate with Product Owner to define and cost estimates for features and releases.

Skills

Python

SQL

JavaScript

Kubernetes

Docker

Azure

Linux

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Data analytics

ETL/Data lake

Spark

ELK

APIs

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering/Computer Science

Master’s Degree in Computer Science/Information Technology

Tools

Git

Kibana/ElasticSearch

Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Job description

About Us

A career at Hitachi Rail will help create a legacy. With operations in every corner of the world, our work goes to the cutting-edge of digital transformation and technology. From the multi-cultural strength of our global organisation to the sustainable and innovative ways we work to bring people together, there’s something for everyone to get stuck into. And that’s where you come in.

Job Description

As Hitachi Rail Singapore, we are advancing rail signalling and safety solutions to ensure safe and efficient railway operations worldwide. Our technologies help to bring billions of people reliably to their destinations by rail every year - making sustainable mobility a reality.

Job position (Ref. No. R1012313)

at our location in Singapore

As a Software Engineer within HR Singapore, you will strive to deliver Digital Products and Services hosted on Cloud Platforms that delight customers and users. Ready to be flexible and proactive, whilst being comfortable with learning a new domain, concepts and techniques. You will be working with AGILE methodologies, where knowledge of Cloud technologies, Data Analytics, Site Reliability and DevSecOps principles will be an asset to the team. Focusing on our Digital Products, you will be working collaboratively in an international context to ensure development and support of the solution. From UX design, clean coding, QA, deployment on cloud platform and service delivery you will be directly contributing to all aspects of defining and delivery core new products for the business.

You will enjoy having these responsibilities

• Development, testing, validation, demonstration and operational of Software and System solutions/services, including provisioning, packaging, deployment and administration.
• Delivery of high-quality best-practice clean code via CICD Pipelines
• Management and maintenance of the platform deployments with DevSecOps approaches
• Utilization of Cloud platform to meet the project requirements with cybersecurity implications identification
• Work in an agile, cross-functional multinational team, actively engaging to support the success of the team
• To think out of the box to contribute to solving complex technical integration problems and to work collaboratively with the rest of the team to build a shared approach consensus.
• Work closely with Product Owner to defined and cost estimates feature and overall releases required for Bids.
• Collaborate with Functional Manager, developing yours and the team’s competencies.
• Contributes in co-engineering activities to ensure consistent implementation of the global strategy.

You have

• Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent with a minimum of 5 years of experience or a Master’s degree in Computer Science or Information Technology with 3+ years of experience
• Cloud and related technologies Certifications are desirable.

Essential Skills/Experience

• Strong knowledge of virtualization and containerization, cloud hosting (eg. AZURE), clustered deployment orchestration (eg. Kubernetes), containers (eg. Docker) and Pivotal Cloud Foundry
• Strong experience with large data storage and analytics platforms (Datalake) and data manipulation tooling, e.g. Kibana, Elasicsearch/ELK, Spark, etc.
• Experience deploying tool chains for CI/CD and automated SW testing and deployment, with hands-on software design and development experience
• Demonstrated knowledge of Python, SQL, JavaScript & frameworks and similar technologies.
• Knowledgeable of the Agile, DevSecOps and SRE Process and Practices
• Strong Analytics and Data literacy skills,
• Basic network knowledge, including cloud network configuration, layer 2 and 3 network configuration
• Basic knowledge on cyber security, including static and dynamic code scanning, software and hardware hardening, network traffic control, authentication framework,
• Strong knowledge on Linux operating system and shell scripting.

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Possess understanding and previous use of common integration patterns for cloud, web services and public API Gateway deployments, (ingress web-server, web-proxy, load-balancer, firewall, databases, etc.)
• Experience railway signaling, air traffic, avionics or similar critical system domains.
• UX designed experience, specifically Data Analysis, Dashboards and Data Visualization.

Bonus

• Experience with Data Engineer/Data Science.
• Experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)

Soft Skills

• Possess learning agility, flexibility and proactivity
• Comfortable with agile teamwork and customer engagement

Notes

Equal opportunities and self-determined participation of severely disabled persons and persons of equal status as well as respectful cooperation are firmly anchored principles within Hitachi Rail and its subsidiaries. We also aim to offer all our equal opportunities to start a career and to receive training and further education in our company. We consciously promote diversity and togetherness in our teams.

About Us

Our motivation is the mobility turnaround. To achieve this, our teams find innovative products and solutions that ensure the operation and reliability of the entire rail network and increase capacities on the rails.

Our projects are diverse. To make our teams even stronger, we are looking for your support. In return, we offer you an attractive overall package with the following benefits:

• Stronger together: Networking through internal networks and working in international teams
• Our drive: Together, we are laying the foundations for the digitization of the rail around the world, to get people safely to their destinations and to their loved ones!
• Attractive conditions: A secure and permanent job with a global company

We welcome and value differences in background, age, gender, sexuality, family status, disability, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, and world view. It is our commitment to create an inclusive environment - we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.