Principal Engineer, Cloud and Platform Engineering

About the role

DSTA's Cloud and Platform Engineering team designs, builds and operates secure, scalable and resilient platform products and services supporting MINDEF/SAF's digital systems. It is looking for a Principal Engineer with strong technical depth to drive the architecture, engineering and operations of platform capabilities across infrastructure, application and developer platform domains, in public cloud and on-premise cloud environments.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the technical design, development and operations of cloud and platform products and services for mission-critical systems.
• Architect, build and enhance platform capabilities across infrastructure, application and developer platform domains.
• Provide deep technical leadership in infrastructure, network, identity, automation, observability, backup, security, compliance, developer enablement, CI/CD, platform operations and data and AI services.
• Drive engineering decisions, design reviews and technical trade-offs so solutions meet functional, operational and security requirements.
• Develop and improve automation, integration and operational workflows to improve reliability, consistency and efficiency.
• Troubleshoot complex issues and lead root cause analysis to improve resilience and service quality.
• Contribute to architecture, engineering standards, reference designs, best practices and technical roadmaps.
• Guide and mentor engineers and help grow the team's technical capabilities.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• At least 5 years of relevant technical experience; candidates with more than 10 years may be considered for a more senior position.
• Experience designing, building and operating platform products in public cloud and/or on-premise cloud environments.
• Ability to work across multidisciplinary teams of developers, architects, engineers, cybersecurity experts and UX designers.

Required skills

• Infrastructure, network, identity, security, automation and observability practices.
• Platform automation, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, application common services and system integration.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.