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