Platform Infrastructure Engineer, TPEO

About the role

GovTech, the lead agency behind Singapore's Smart Nation initiatives, is looking for a hands-on Platform Infrastructure Engineer within its Technology Planning & Enablement Office (TPEO). The role designs, builds, automates and operates modern infrastructure platforms across cloud and hybrid environments, improving reliability, observability, automation, security posture, governance and operational resilience for critical platforms supporting government digital services. It works closely with application, security, cloud and operations teams to reduce operational toil and technical debt.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure platforms across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes and hybrid environments, aligned to government governance and security standards.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform, Ansible and CI/CD pipelines, focused on automation, repeatability and auditability.
• Drive observability through monitoring, logging, alerting and operational dashboards.
• Improve reliability, resiliency and failover readiness, and support container platforms including Kubernetes.
• Automate patching, provisioning, compliance checks and governance reporting.
• Support vulnerability remediation and security hardening, and troubleshoot incidents across compute, network, storage and cloud services.
• Partner with application teams to improve cloud-native adoption and adherence to platform standards, and contribute reusable modules and best practices.
• Leverage AI and ML tools for predictive monitoring, anomaly detection and infrastructure optimisation, and support migration from legacy infrastructure to the cloud.

Required profile

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or a related field.
• Experience in cloud infrastructure engineering and operations, ideally in a large-scale enterprise or government context.
• Experience supporting production environments and incident response.
• Preferred: regulated or large-scale enterprise experience, exposure to SRE, platform engineering or DevSecOps, and familiarity with government ICT governance frameworks.

Required skills

• Hands-on experience with at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, GitHub or similar IaC tooling.
• Kubernetes and container platforms.
• Observability tools such as CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, Prometheus or Grafana.
• Infrastructure security, IAM, networking and resiliency concepts.
• Scripting in Python, Bash or similar.
• Preferred: AWS, Azure or GCP certifications, hybrid cloud or datacentre experience.