Containers Platform Engineer

Centre For Strategic Infocomm Technologies

Job Location:

Singapore - Singapore

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

As a Containers Platform Engineer at CSIT you will design deploy and support container orchestration platform services that power mission-critical workloads across on-premise networks. You will join the Runtime Platforms team - responsible for delivering secure reliable and scalable container services that enable other CSIT engineers to deploy application workloads efficiently while maintaining strong security and compliance standards. Our team operates a multi-tenanted Kubernetes provider platform and it has included many enhancements aimed to improve developers productivity. These include 3rd-party technologies as well as bespoke workflow enhancements.

Responsibilities

Design and enhance Kubernetes provider platforms and supporting infrastructure to improve scalability reliability and developer experience.
Automate and simplify Kubernetes clusters lifecycle management upgrades and observability workflows.
Implement monitoring and alerting systems using tools such as Prometheus Grafana or Elastic Observability to meet service-level objective (SLOs).
Collaborate with security teams to integrate and enforce security controls and compliance requirements within the container platform.
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.

Requirements (Minimum Qualifications)

Background in Computer Engineering Computer Science or related field
Strong programming or scripting experience (e.g. Git Terraform Javascript Python or Bash)
Good understanding of Linux systems containers and networking fundamentals.
At least 1-3 years of hands-on experience operating or managing Kubernetes clusters in production environments.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines infrastructure-as-code and configuration management (e.g. Terraform Ansible Helm).
Experience implementing observability and monitoring in large-scale systems.

Good-to-haves

Knowledge of Kubernetes security concepts such as RBAC admission controllers and policy enforcement.
Experience with GitOps workflow and deployment tools (e.g. ArgoCV Gitlab Runner)
Understanding of service mesh technologies (e.g. Istio)
Exposure to reliability engineering practices including SLOs error budgets and capacity planning
Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS GCP or Azure) and hybrid infrastructure architectures
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 infrastructure that supports Singapores 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 Kubernetes SRE practices and secure platform engineering at scale.

As CSIT is an agency under the Ministry of Defence (Singapore) only Singapore Citizens will be considered.

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