Cloud Platform Engineer

About the role

CSIT is looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer to research, explore and adopt modern cloud technologies so that on-premise platform services can be continuously evolved and modernized. You will join the Runtime Platform team, which delivers secure, reliable and scalable platform services that hide infrastructure complexity behind a multi-tenant environment, enabling software engineers to deploy and run cloud-native applications while keeping strong security and compliance standards.

Key responsibilities

• Design and build self-service platform services such as message queue and observability services so developers can focus on coding, testing and managing their applications.
• Automate and simplify lifecycle operations like provisioning and scaling using Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps workflows.
• Implement observability and alerting systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Observability) to meet service-level objectives.
• Work with security teams to integrate and enforce security controls and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate with application teams to improve usability, streamline onboarding and reduce operational toil.
• Respond to incidents, carry out post-incident reviews and contribute to a reliability engineering culture.
• Help define platform service requirements with cross-functional teams.

Required profile

• Degree or professional qualification in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.
• At least 1-3 years of hands-on experience operating cloud services in production.
• Strong programming or scripting experience (HCL, YAML, JavaScript, Python or Bash).
• Good understanding of Linux, containers, networking fundamentals and distributed systems.
• Experience implementing observability and monitoring of large-scale platforms.

Required skills

• CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code and configuration management (Terraform, Ansible, Helm).
• GitOps workflows and deployment tools (ArgoCD, GitLab Runner) are good to have.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes security concepts (RBAC, admission controllers, policy enforcement) is good to have.
• Reliability engineering practices (SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning) and observability stacks (Elastic Observability, Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry) are good to have.

Candidates must be Singapore citizens, as CSIT is an agency under the Ministry of Defence (Singapore). The employer may use AI tools to help review applications, and final hiring decisions are made by humans.