Our client is a global organization building a new Global Engineering Organization to strengthen internal software delivery, improve production ownership, and build long-term engineering capability. They are now looking to hire a Lead Platform Engineer to build and support delivery platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and release processes across business-critical systems.
Reporting into the Platform, DevOps & Data function, this is a senior role with hands-on responsibility. The role focuses on improving release reliability, automation, observability, and production stability across multiple environments.
Requirement:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or related technical roles.
- Strong experience supporting and operating both on-premise and cloud-based environments, including hybrid infrastructure architectures.
- Strong hands-on experience building, maintaining, and improving CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or similar platforms.
- Strong scripting and automation skills using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or equivalent technologies.
- Experience managing application deployments, release processes, environment promotion strategies, deployment validation, rollback planning, and production readiness activities.
- Strong understanding of application hosting, infrastructure dependencies, platform reliability, operational support, and production system ownership.
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft-based enterprise environments, including Windows Server, IIS, .NET applications, SQL Server-backed systems, Active Directory, service accounts, and enterprise authentication technologies.
- Hands-on background with Azure cloud services, Azure DevOps, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, or Microsoft-oriented delivery tooling.
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
- Practical knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, container registries, Kustomize, Helm, or container-based deployment models.
- Practical experience deploying, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters and load-balancing solutions in bare-metal environments.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP beyond the Microsoft ecosystem.
- Working knowledge of observability tools such as Zabbix, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK / OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry, OpenObserve, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, Azure Monitor, or similar tools.
- Background working with artifact repositories, package management, dependency scanning, static analysis, and software supply chain controls.
- Understanding of DevSecOps practices, security scanning, vulnerability management, policy-as-code, or pipeline-integrated security controls.
- Prior work supporting ERP, warehouse, internal business platforms, B2B transaction systems, e-commerce, supply chain, logistics, or similar business-critical environments.
- Track record of improving DevOps maturity in an organization where process, ownership, and documentation are still developing.
- Familiarity with cost optimization, license awareness, and practical platform efficiency improvements.
- Applicants MUST BE currently based in Singapore and has relevant work experience in Singapore.