# Principal Platform Infrastructure Engineer

**Company**: GovTech
**Location**: Singapore
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/govtech/jobs/4004644201?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_ddfb8527-cf8

## Description

GovTech is the lead agency driving Singapore's Smart Nation initiatives and public sector digital transformation. As the Centre of Excellence for Infocomm Technology and Smart Systems (ICT & SS), GovTech develops the Singapore Government's capabilities in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Application Development, Smart City Technology, Digital Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity.

We are seeking a Principal Platform Infrastructure Engineer to join the Operations Engineering Practice (OEP) at the Government Technology Office (GTO). The Principal Platform Infrastructure Engineer role is a senior technical leader responsible for establishing, evolving, and scaling an operations engineering practice area across the organization.

**Responsibilities:**

- Practice Leadership: Define and maintain the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the assigned Operations Engineering practice area. Establish organizational standards, policies, frameworks, and reference architectures.

- Technical Leadership: Serve as the organization's subject matter expert for the assigned practice area. Provide technical guidance on complex operational and reliability challenges.

- Capability Development: Design and deliver capability-building initiatives across engineering teams. Create training materials, workshops, and communities of practice.

- Adoption and Transformation: Partner with engineering teams to drive adoption of standards and best practices. Facilitate improvement initiatives across multiple domains and business units.

- Strategic Initiatives: Lead cross-functional programs that improve reliability, resiliency, and operational maturity.

**What Success Looks Like:**

- Deliver measurable improvements in reliability and service availability, operational efficiency, reduction of manual toil, incident response effectiveness, observability, engineering productivity, operational maturity, and adoption of standard operating practices.

- Influences hundreds of engineers across multiple teams. Operations engineering standards and practices adopted organization-wide.

**Requirements:**

- 10+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or related disciplines.

- Deep expertise in at least one operational excellence domain such as Incident Management, Observability, Automation Engineering, Resiliency Engineering, AIOps, or Service Reliability Engineering.

- Experience designing and operating large-scale production systems.

- Strong understanding of cloud platforms, automation, monitoring, and operational practices.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience establishing engineering standards or practices at scale.

- Experience building communities of practice.

- Experience developing training, capability-building, or workforce transformation initiatives.

**Benefits:**

- Generous leave benefits

- Flexible work arrangements

- In-house and external learning and development opportunities

## Skills

### Required
- infrastructure
- platform engineering
- site reliability engineering
- Incident Management
- Observability
- Automation Engineering
- Resiliency Engineering
- AIOps
- Service Reliability Engineering
- cloud platforms
- automation
- monitoring
- operational practices

### Nice to have
- establishing engineering standards
- building communities of practice
- developing training
- capability-building
- workforce transformation initiatives

---

Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/govtech/jobs/4004644201?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)