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GIC is one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds. With over 2,000 employees across 11 locations around the world, we invest in more than 40 countries globally across asset classes and businesses. Working at GIC gives you exposure to an extraordinary network of the world’s industry leaders. As a leading global long-term investor, we Work at the Point of Impact for Singapore’s financial future, and the communities we invest in worldwide.

Technology Group
We experiment, design, and lead a 24×7 global business where we support core capabilities in asset management, trading, investment operations, and risk management. We deliver secure, reliable, and integrated solutions, and provide insights on new, and emerging technologies.

Infrastructure Team
You will help to build and sustain strong technology foundations forming the bedrock of GIC’s digital solutions.

What will you do as an AVP, Cloud Engineer?

Enable Cloud Native transformation strategy and roadmap

Enable the next iteration of GIC’s cloud strategy by planning and executing against the vision for an agile organization that leverages cloud native to take full advantage of cloud computing

Communicate the case for and benefits of increased cloud native adoption to senior stakeholders, business units and business solution teams

Proactively keep updated on AWS/Azure updates and proactively propose, design, and implement changes to our cloud systems.

Create / track roadmaps and pathways for the rationalization and modernization of applications to just-right cloud services, platform, and architecture within our hybrid cloud (public and private) ecosystem

Measure and track progress of GIC’s cloud strategy through the development of effective Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that set the conditions for successful cloud native adoption, culture, behaviour, and differentiating business outcomes

Enable Cloud Centre of Practice and Excellence

Champion and exemplify cloud native practices, including cloud native philosophy, architecture, principles, and culture

Participate in product management, including research and proof-of-concept, for emerging cloud native services and platforms, for example, enterprise containerization, landing zones, orchestration, and automation

Define and implement cloud reference architecture, standards, and processes within the enterprise, for example, provide opinionated landing zones that comprise a set of policies or rules to enforce a security baseline and prevent non-compliant activities

Perform cloud governance role in disciplines like identity & access management, tenant/account management, security & compliance, and billing

Provide common tooling, solutions, and patterns for cloud native adoption and developer enablement, productivity, and self-service

Assist application and developer teams to onboard applications to hybrid cloud (public and/or private) services and platforms

Provide education and learning opportunities to enable teams to understand existing and emerging cloud computing technologies, as part of overall cloud capabilities building

Deliver Cloud Engineering and Operations

Implement opinionated set of technologies, on top of cloud service provider(s), to consolidate institutional knowledge, tooling, patterns and practices; and deployable artifacts to production

Provision cloud services to developer teams based on pre-stipulated service level agreements

Manage the maintenance of virtual appliances, for example, AMI, and base container images

Manage cloud operations disciplines like patch management, network configuration, certificate management, logging agents, and intrusion detection

Steward cloud spend and budget, including the monitoring of cumulative usage, identifying of areas for optimization, managing reserved instances (RI) and negotiating on committed spend agreements

Manage support vendor partnerships through regular vendor stewardship meetings and service level and escalation reporting

What qualifications or skills should you possess in this role?

At least 7 years of relevant experience in delivering hybrid cloud strategies, operating models, and technology service management practices

Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent

Some return-on-investment and business case development experience

Strong communication abilities to influence key stakeholders ranging from C-level executives, MDs, CISO, application architects and subject matter experts

Proven track record of delivering cloud applications on Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure using cloud-native design and patterns

Proven experience in designing microservices, event driven architecture using open source, .NET, NodeJS, Python, Java, message queues, streaming, databases, and cloud data services

Extensive experience in architecting applications and automation technologies to meet the expected standards of availability, agility, capacity, resiliency, and security

Hands-on experience with cloud technologies including, Docker, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, Service Mesh, Immutable Infrastructure, and declarative APIs

Hands-on experience automating full lifecycle management of application hosting platforms in data center and public cloud using DevOps practices and CI/CD methodologies

Strong understanding of Infrastructure and Platform Automation technology products such as Amazon CloudFormation, HashiCorp Suite, Puppet, Ansible, and Chef

Strong understanding of AGILE, and Product Management methodology

Strong understanding and knowledge of industry technology standards, and security & compliance frameworks (e.g. NIST, CIS, CSM) and experience working with audit and regulatory bodies

One or more AWS/Azure Certifications at Professional and/or Specialty level

Work at the Point of Impact
We need to be forward-looking to attract the right people to help us become the Leading Global Long-term Investor. Join our ambitious, agile, and diverse teams - be empowered to push boundaries and pursue innovative ideas, share your views, and be heard. Be anchored on our PRIME Values: Prudence, Respect, Integrity, Merit and Excellence, which guides us in how we make our day-to-day decisions. We strive to inspire. To make an impact.

GIC is a Great Place to Work

At GIC, our offices are vibrant hubs for ideation, professional growth, and interpersonal connection. At the same time, we believe that flexibility allows us to do our best work and be our best selves. Thus, our teams come into the office four days per week to harness the benefits of in-person collaboration, but have the flexibility to choose which days they work from home and adjust this arrangement as situational needs arise.

GIC is an equal opportunity employer
As an employer, we passionately believe every individual brings with them unique diversity of thought and perspectives to meaningfully enrich perspectives of GIC teams to drive competitive performance. An inclusive environment yields exceptional contribution.