Platform Infrastructure Engineer (PaaS / Kubernetes / Linux)

Platform Infrastructure Engineer (PaaS / Kubernetes / Linux)

Power the Platforms Behind Mission-Critical Systems

Join a leading technology solutions provider delivering enterprise-scale infrastructure and platform services for mission-critical environments. If you're passionate about Linux, Kubernetes, enterprise platforms, and keeping complex systems running at peak performance, this is your opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies in a highly collaborative engineering team.

You'll play a key role in building, maintaining, and enhancing modern Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environments while ensuring reliability, security, and operational excellence.

What You'll Do

As a Platform Infrastructure Engineer, you'll be responsible for the operation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of enterprise platform services running across development, testing, staging, and production environments.

Your responsibilities include:

Platform Operations

• Manage and maintain enterprise platform services, middleware, databases, messaging platforms, and container environments.
• Monitor system health, troubleshoot incidents, perform root cause analysis, and resolve production issues.
• Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain Linux (RHEL) and Windows Server environments.
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, backup, recovery, and restoration activities.

Container & Platform Technologies
Work with modern container technologies including:

• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Podman

Support enterprise platforms such as:

• MongoDB
• Microsoft SQL Server
• NGINX
• Apache HTTP Server
• IBM MQ
• Kafka
• MQTT
• ArcGIS
• Keycloak

Security & Reliability

• Implement infrastructure hardening based on CIS benchmarks and security best practices.
• Manage platform security, user access, and compliance requirements.
• Support disaster recovery planning and resilience initiatives.

Platform Engineering

• Deploy platform upgrades, security patches, and lifecycle improvements.
• Support change management and release activities with rollback planning.
• Collaborate with DevOps, Security, Application, and Infrastructure teams to deliver stable platform services.

Monitoring & Automation

• Configure and maintain monitoring, logging, and observability solutions.
• Monitor performance, capacity, and availability across enterprise platforms.
• Identify opportunities to automate operational tasks and improve platform reliability.

Documentation

• Maintain infrastructure documentation, SOPs, architecture diagrams, and operational procedures.
• Produce reports on system performance, maintenance, and platform health.

What We're Looking For

• Diploma or Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• 3 years of experience in infrastructure administration or platform engineering.
• Strong knowledge of: Linux (RHEL), Windows Server, VMware, Enterprise server and storage infrastructure
• Experience administering container platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• Familiarity with DevOps tools including GitLab and Ansible.
• Experience supporting enterprise technologies such as MongoDB, NGINX, Apache, IBM MQ, Kafka, ArcGIS, or similar platforms.
• Knowledge of monitoring solutions such as Grafana and Prometheus.
• Understanding of ITIL processes including Incident, Change, and Problem Management.
• Experience in pre-sales or tender preparation will be an added advantage.

Preferred Certifications (Optional)

• RHCSA / RHCE
• VMware VCP
• MongoDB Administrator Certification

Why Join Us?

• Work with modern cloud-native and enterprise technologies.
• Exposure to Kubernetes, DevOps, container platforms, and enterprise middleware.
• Collaborative engineering environment with opportunities to expand your technical expertise.
• Opportunity for contract extension or permanent conversion based on performance.

Employment Details

• Salary: S$5,500 Basic (No AWS / No Variable Bonus)
• Contract: 1-year direct contract with client (extendable/convertible based on performance)
• Location: Ang Mo Kio
• Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:30 AM – 6:30 PM