Staff Solutions Architect

SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading telecommunications company in Singapore is seeking a highly experienced Staff Solution Architect to join their Software and Infrastructure team. This role involves driving the design and deployment of cloud services, collaborating closely with engineering and product teams to deliver scalable solutions. The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise and a strong understanding of cloud architectures, including experience with hypervisors, networking, and security best practices. This position requires effective communication skills and the ability to lead technical evaluations and partnerships.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles.
• Experience architecting scalable private cloud infrastructures.
• Effective communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Drive the architecture, design, and deployment of cloud platform services.
• Translate complex requirements into actionable designs.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to deliver solutions.

Skills

VMWare ESXi

OpenStack

KVM

Nutanix

Fortinet

Cisco

Juniper

NVIDIA

Linux

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Bitbucket

GitHub

Job description

We are seeking a highly experienced Staff Solution Architect to join our Software and Infrastructure team within the Enterprise Platforms product group. In this strategic role, you will be responsible for driving the architecture, design, and deployment of the Singtel Telco Edge Cloud, GPU Private Cloud, and related platform services. You will play a key role in shaping end-to-end solution blueprints, defining integration patterns, and enabling customer workload onboarding and operationalization across our edge and cloud ecosystems.

You will work closely with cross‑functional engineering, product, business, and architecture teams to deliver scalable, secure, and production‑ready solutions. This role requires deep technical expertise, strong architectural leadership, and the ability to translate complex requirements into actionable, high‑quality designs that support Singtel’s next‑generation enterprise cloud offerings.

• Understand in depth, the security principles, resilience and high availability requirements of the Singtel private cloud telco edge cloud and GPU private cloud.
• Design solution architectures for customer apps/workloads and facilitate trial deployments of the 5G apps on the private cloud.
• Co‑design and develop applications with enterprise customers and partners and facilitate customer trials/experiments and internal R&D trials/experiments.
• Lead selection of technology components across the infrastructure stack of the private cloud.
• Design deployment of SAAS and PAAS workloads on the Private cloud.
• Evangelize the platform and telco edge cloud infrastructure for use by other business units within SingTel and group companies and lead the solution design for these applications to effectively use the platform.
• Interact with implementation partners and customers to understand their needs, and feed this back to the development teams and roadmap.
• Participate in technical partnership conversations and due diligence.
• Participate and lead in technical evaluations of partner technology with a hands‑on approach.

What you need to have:

• Hypervisors VMWare ESXi, OpenStack, KVM, Nutanix (any 2)
• Switches and firewalls Fortinet, Cisco, Juniper, NVIDIA or similar
• Servers Rack mount servers, Blade servers, GPU Servers.
• Networking BGP, OSPF, VXLAN and L2/L3 networking concepts
• Filesystems and storage NFS, PFS or similar
• Operating Systems Linux
• Containers and Orchestration Kubernetes (hands‑on knowledge)
• Best Practices Security by design principles, High Availability and fault resilience principles, Micro Segmentation.
• Public Cloud AWS, Azure (hands‑on experience)
• Infrastructure as a code Terraform, Ansible or similar
• CI/CD systems Jenkins, Bitbucket pipelines, GitHub or similar tools

Additional Experience & Qualifications

• Experience architecting, designing, and developing complex, enterprise‑grade, configurable, scalable private cloud infrastructure.
• A background in systems‑level thinking and design. Combined with the ability to translate technical strategy and architectures into concrete, minimal viable products, with the right trade‑offs and phasing.
• Exposure to software development would be an added advantage.
• Deep understanding of the architectural principles for cloud‑based platforms that include SaaS, PaaS, multi‑tenancy, infrastructure as code, and continuous availability.
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across various cross‑functional teams and groups.