VP1 Automation Engineer Lead, GIPS

About the role

UOB is looking for an experienced Lead Automation Engineer to lead a team within Platform Automation Services. The team builds and evolves internal platforms that automate and streamline operational processes, improve service reliability and deliver self-service capabilities for internal users. The role combines software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps and SRE leadership.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Site Reliability Engineers and software engineers.
• Design, develop and maintain internal platforms that automate operational processes and workflows.
• Build scalable, secure and maintainable full-stack applications and platform services.
• Partner with stakeholders to turn business requirements into platform capabilities.
• Drive adoption of SRE, DevOps and engineering best practices.
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis and continuous improvement.
• Support OpenShift Container Platform and private cloud environments; drive observability, monitoring, performance and reliability.
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of internal platform products, define roadmaps and measure success through adoption, reliability and efficiency metrics.
• Design automation solutions that remove manual work, build reusable frameworks and implement automated recovery, deployment and operational workflows.
• Lead architecture and solution design, including integration patterns, API standards and engineering best practices.
• Champion code quality, testing, security and documentation, lead code reviews and mentor engineers.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information technology or a related discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of software engineering experience.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams or major technical initiatives.
• Strong full-stack development experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and leadership skills.

Required skills

• Hands-on experience with Angular and Django.
• APIs, microservices and enterprise applications.
• DevOps, CI/CD and software delivery practices.
• OpenShift Container Platform, Kubernetes and private cloud environments.
• Monitoring, logging, observability and reliability engineering.
• Preferred: building platforms from scratch, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or Ansible), observability platforms (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog), and large enterprise environments.