Cloud Platform Engineer

Job description

As a Cloud Platform Engineer at CSIT, you will research, explore and adopt modern cloud technologies to continuously evolve and modernize on-premise platform services. You will join the **Runtime Platform** team - responsible for delivering secure, reliable, and scalable platform services that abstract away infrastructure complexity, to enable software engineers to deploy and operate cloud-native applications efficiently while maintaining strong security and compliance standards. Our team operates a multi-tenanted platform services that has included many enhancements customized for our developers' unique use-cases to improve productivity. These include 3rd-party technologies as well as bespoke workflow enhancements ### Responsibilities - **Design and build** self-service platform, such as Message Queue service, Observability service, etc, that would enable developers to focus on coding, testing, and managing their cloud-native applications. - **Automate and simplify** lifecycle operations, such as provisioning and scaling using Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps workflow. - **Implement observability and alerting systems** for the platform services, using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Elastic Observability to meet service-level objectives (SLOs). - **Collaborate with security teams** to integrate and enforce security controls and compliance requirements of the platform services. - **Work with application teams** to improve platform usability, streamline onboarding, and reduce operational toil. - **Respond to incidents and perform post-incident reviews**, driving continuous improvement and operational excellence. - **Contribute to the reliability engineering culture**, fostering shared responsibility for system availability and performance. - **Collaborate with cross functional** teams to define platform service requirements. ### Requirements (Minimum Qualifications) - Background in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field. - Strong programming or scripting experience (e.g. **HCL**, **YAML**, **Javascript**, **Python**, or **Bash**). - Good understanding of Linux systems, containers, networking fundamentals and distributed system operations. - At least **1-3 years of hands-on experience** operating cloud services in production - Familiar with **CI/CD pipelines**, **infrastructure-as-code**, and **configuration management** (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Helm). - Experience implementing observability and monitoring of large-scale platforms. ### Good to Have - Knowledge of Kubernetes security concepts such as RBAC, admission controllers, and policy enforcement. - Experience with GitOps workflows and deployment tools (e.g., ArgoCD, Gitlab Runner). - Exposure to reliability engineering practices, including SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning. - Experience with observability stacks and tools such as Elastic Observability, Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana and Open Telemetry. - Knowledge of networking protocols (HTTP, TCP, DNS) and troubleshooting tools. - Passion for open-source technologies. ### Why join us? - At CSIT, you will: - Build and operate a Cloud platform that supports Singapore's national security missions. - Work with talented engineers who take pride in operational excellence, collaboration, and innovation. - Be empowered to experiment, improve, and scale modern technologies securely. - Have opportunities to deepen your expertise in SRE Practices, and secure platform engineering at scale.