Service Delivery Director - Cloud

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced and resilient Cloud Services Delivery Director to lead our Agency Tenant Facilities Management (ATFM) cloud operations team. In this role, you will be the driving force overseeing tenant workloads across the Government Commercial Cloud (GCC) environment, with a primary focus on AWS architecture.

You will manage day-to-day cloud operations, drive complex migration roadmaps, and act as the principal custodian of infrastructure security, ensuring strict adherence to Singapore public sector compliance frameworks (e.g., IM8). The ideal candidate has an expert command of AWS, a service-oriented mindset tailored for public sector tenants, and a proven track record of handling high-stakes public sector IT delivery.

Key Responsibilities

ATFM Cloud Operations & Service Management

• GCC Environment Management: Establish, maintain, and supervise highly available, scalable, and resilient AWS infrastructure hosting critical tenant agency applications within the GCC framework.
• Day-to-Day Operations Support: Lead the ATFM engineering team in simplifying and running routine IT infrastructure operations for various government tenant agencies.
• Automation & Monitoring: Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using automation (e.g., Ansible) and infrastructure-as-code (IaC via Terraform or CloudFormation) to maximize operational efficiency.
• Incident & Problem Management: Take accountability for high-severity incident responses, leading swift containment and resolution efforts to minimize disruption to public digital services.
• Tenant Lifecycle Management: Oversee the end-to-end cloud journey for tenant agencies, including resource allocation, continuous performance tuning, and capacity planning.

Services Governance & GCC Migration

• Cloud Readiness Assessment: Lead detailed infrastructure and workload assessments for legacy or on-premises systems shifting to GCC AWS environments.
• Migration Execution: Develop and drive flawless cloud migration roadmaps, managing resource schedules, timelines, and application onboarding constraints smoothly.
• Financial & Cost Governance: Analyze ongoing cloud spend across tenant agencies, enforcing strict cost optimization and control mechanisms to ensure responsible public fund spending.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate effectively with GovTech central teams, tenant agency stakeholders, and auxiliary security teams to align cloud delivery with overarching Whole-of-Government (WOG) digital objectives.

Infrastructure Security Compliance (WOG & IM8)

• IM8 Alignment: Ensure all tenant architectures strictly integrate and comply with Singapore Government IM8 (Instruction Manual 8) policies, CSA guidelines, and public sector data classification requirements.
• Access & Data Protection: Enforce mandatory security controls, prioritizing strict Identity and Access Management (IAM), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), network segmentation, and encryption for data at rest and in transit.
• Continuous Threat Monitoring: Supervise continuous infrastructure monitoring, leveraging cloud-native tools like AWS GuardDuty and Security Hub to preemptively identify and mitigate zero-day exploits, DDoS risks, and unauthorized access.
• Audits & Vulnerability Management: Direct routine security vulnerability assessments, strict patch management schedules, penetration tests, and compliance audits across tenant environments.
• Secure Disaster Recovery (DR): Ensure backup architectures are tightly secured and encrypted and coordinate regular WOG-aligned DR drills to ensure business continuity for critical national applications.

Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Experience: 15 years of experience in IT operations, with at least 10 years in enterprise cloud environments.
• GovTech/Public Sector Exposure: Proven experience operating within the Government Commercial Cloud (GCC) environment, or a comprehensive understanding of Singapore public sector ICT governance is a must.
• AWS Technical Depth: Expert architectural and operational knowledge of AWS services, DevOps pipelines, and infrastructure management is a must.
• Compliance Proficiency: Deep practical familiarity with IM8 controls, MTCS, or equivalent high-compliance security frameworks.
• Tooling: Proficient with IaC deployment tools (Terraform, CloudFormation) and configuration management automation tools (Ansible, Chef, or Puppet).
• ITIL (Service Management)

Key Competencies:

• Strong leadership and decision-making under pressure
• Excellent stakeholder and communication skills 
• Deep understanding of service delivery and security and process governance
• Ability to balance operations, security, and business priorities
• Exceptional capabilities in managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams under high-pressure SLA environments.

Good to haves:

• Relevant specialized certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified Security – Specialty.
• Certifications in IT service management (e.g., ITILv4).
• Hands-on experience with GovTech stack platforms such as Container Stack (CStack) or automated policy-as-code deployment engines.