Cloud Platform Engineer

Company: csit
Location: Singapore, Singapore
Type: full_time
Posted: Aug 19, 2026
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CSIT, a Singapore government agency supporting national security missions, is hiring a Cloud Platform Engineer to join its Runtime Platform team. The role involves building self-service platforms (Message Queue, Observability) using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines, with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Elastic. Requires 1-3 years of hands-on production cloud experience, strong scripting (HCL, YAML, Python, Bash), and Linux/container/networking knowledge. Only Singapore Citizens are considered; no salary or remote policy mentioned.

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