Kubernetes jobs in Singapore

In a world where trades are happening faster than ever to answer our needs, where sustainability is not just an option anymore, clarity and trust in the information we trade with are a must.

So, say hello to Kpler! We exist to facilitate sustainable and efficient trade to meet the changing needs of our world. To do so we've built a Data-as-a-Service solution that does exactly that across the lifecycle of a trade.

Our solution aggregates data from hundreds of sources including radar and satellite imagery as well as logistics, governmental, shipping databases and more. Intelligently connecting the dots across fragmented information landscapes, we bring to our clients a unique, real-time understanding of the trades happening all over the world, by giving them access to live information about the movement of cargos, the availability of vessels as well as the commodity storage.

To support this endeavor we have teams in more than 7 countries and 7 key locations (Paris, London, Brussels, Dubai, Singapore, Houston and New York). With individuals of various backgrounds, diverse skills, and international experiences, being global & inclusive is in our DNA!

Our values

• Be humble - Our self-interest does not compromise the collective interest
• Respect and care for others - We treat everyone as an individual
• Take responsibility - We take ownership of our actions
• Act with integrity - We do the right thing, always
• Be bold - We challenge ourselves and the status quo with action

You'll get to work in a truly global environment, with more than 20 nationalities speaking more than 15 languages.

Main responsibilities

• Work in tandem with the engineering team to design, build, and deploy applications, including large-scale data processing, computationally intensive statistical and ML models, and advanced analytics.
• Design, build, and maintain Kpler's cloud-native infrastructure following the company security guidelines and ensuring the platform's high availability.
• Managing several Kubernetes and ECS clusters at scale.
• Take our infrastructure to the next level, building reliable and self-healing services within a secure environment while relying on fully automated operations
• Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes and implement preventive measures.
• Be a technical referent on infrastructure / CI / CD.
• Enhance monitoring, logging and alerting systems and escalation processes.
• Educate the engineering team on Devops culture.

Preferred experience

• 3+ years of experience architecting, designing, developing cloud solutions.
• Extensive experience with open-source technology and system engineering.
• Some experience in developing software.
• Ideally with a first experience in start up or fast moving environment, managing a real-time 24/7 platform.
• Skilled at working with engineers, or alone as required.

Requires skills

• Excellent knowledge of one or two public Cloud Providers (ideally AWS and GCP).Excellent knowledge of Linux.
• Programming knowledge (ideally Python or Go).
• Excellent knowledge of Kubernetes and its ecosystem.
• Good expertise in one configuration management tool (ideally Ansible and Terraform).CI/CD tools and practices
• Organized, communicative, and accountable Enjoy being on a team and share knowledge

Desired Skills

• Good knowledge of relational and document databases.
• Extensive experience with event-sourcing / event-store architecture with Kafka.
• Experience with geotimeseries databases.

Our People Pledge

Kpler is committed to providing a fair, inclusive and diverse work-environment. We believe that different perspectives lead to better ideas, and better ideas allow us to better understand the needs and interests of our diverse, global community. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives and are an equal opportunity employer.

Singapore Telecommunications Limited is a Singaporean telecommunications conglomerate and one of the four major telcos operating in the country.

What you will do

• Deliver stable, efficient, and reliable Cloud Infrastructure and operations
• Support design, implementation and testing of installation of Cloud Infrastructure
• Perform daily performance monitoring, analysis and maintenance to ensure system Cloud Infrastructure performed

Support Cloud Infrastructure Operations:

• Apply diagnostic tools to perform technical analysis of complex software, hardware within the Cloud Infrastructure
• Create and maintain documentation on administration, provisioning, configuration and troubleshooting
• Support delivery of optimal Cloud Infrastructure operations
• Support the development of report on Cloud Infrastructure capabilities and limitations
• Resolve Cloud Infrastructure incidents
• Diagnose problem source through discussions with users
• Escalate problems or issues to higher management
• Recommend system modifications to minimize user problems
• Support implementation of preventive measures
• Support planned maintenance events, system backup processes and disaster recovery drills
• Support problem or issue identification and resolution
• Support simulation of user problems to resolve operation issues Singapore Telecommunications Limited is a Singaporean telecommunications conglomerate and one of the four major telcos operating in the country.

Maintain Cloud Infrastructure

• Develop reports on performance and availability of Cloud Infrastructure systems by reviewing of service uptime, utilisation and throughput
• Identify key Cloud Infrastructure operations issues and maintenance priorities
• Support the implementation of agreed Cloud Infrastructure change requests and maintenance routines
• Support the improvement of maintenance capability by using automation in the Cloud for upgrades, backup and storage Optimise Cloud Infrastructure performance & Support Cloud Infrastructure planning and design
• Support the initiatives to improve the Cloud Infrastructure systems and service delivery through automation and virtualisation technologies
• Support the monitoring of performance, availability and security of Cloud Infrastructure systems and key operational metrics
• Support the design, provisioning, system migration and integration for the cloud services
• Support the testing and handover of implemented Cloud Infrastructure solution

The ideal candidate should possess:

• Bachelor in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineer, Information Technology or related discipline
• Has minimally 8 years' experience in designing/implementation/consulting of large-scale private/public/hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions
• The candidate should have attained professional certifications in the following areas with at least 5 years of implementation experience in:
• AWS/Azure/Google Cloud/VMware
• Possess hands-on experience and good technical skills with proven track records in IT infrastructure and/or emerging IT technologies engineering in the following area:
• Platform, storage, database and virtualization
• Cloud infrastructure (IaaS/PaaS)
• Container technologies like Dockers, Kubernetes and AWS ECS
• Keen to learn and focus in resolving complex issues and conduct incident/fault analysis
• Possess a mindset of curiosity and tenacity in investigating issues and applying an analytical approach to problem resolution and implementation
• Possess a mindset of high service quality standards and communicate effectively to stakeholders and management
• Keen in learning and pick up new skills to cope with technology trend and business requirement

Singapore Telecommunications Limited is a Singaporean telecommunications conglomerate and one of the four major telcos operating in the country.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the deep Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the development of cloud infrastructure solutions which includes multi/hybrid cloud design and implementation
• Constantly explore new solutions and technologies, integrate learning and recommendations into the development process
• Demonstrate good expertise in all major Cloud Service Providers’ products and solutions
• Specialize in the best practice design, operations, and support of private/public/hybrid cloud infrastructure including Network, Storage, Compute and Security
• Ensure proposed design gels and aligns to Application, Enterprise, Security architecture
• Create architecture artefacts and documentation to effectively explain architecture design concepts and solutions to various level of stakeholders
• Recommend new services to complement and enhance infrastructure elements to stream-line and support applications development and deployment
• Apply knowledge of Agile software development and DevOps to infrastructure as code development and deployment.
• Lead continuous enhancement and exploratory work to design, develop, test and deploy new Cloud Infrastructure technologies using agile methods
• Project management of cloud infrastructure setup and implementation

The ideal candidate should possess

• Bachelor in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineer, Information Technology or related discipline
• Has minimally 8 years’ experience in designing/implementation/consulting of large-scale private/public/hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions
• The candidate should have attained professional certifications in the following areas with at least 5 years of implementation experience in: AWS/Azure/Google Cloud/VMware
• Possess hands-on experience and good technical skills with proven track records in IT infrastructure and/or emerging IT technologies engineering in the following area: o Platform, storage, database and virtualization o Cloud infrastructure (IaaS/PaaS) o Container technologies like Dockers, Kubernetes and AWS ECS
• Knowledge of with DevOps techniques and Agile practices is an added advantage
• Proficient in multi-tiered architecture, design and implementation
• Experience with Web and server technologies including Virtualization, Web services, EAI, with knowledge of J2EE and SOA concept
• Knowledge of client/server and distributed computing knowledge with messaging, SOAP, .NET and AD
• Strong working knowledge and ability to apply architecture concepts, frameworks and methodologies to projects
• Experienced in business and technical analysis, architecture design, project management
• Ability to communicate IT architecture methods, concepts, standards and policies
• PMP, ITIL and TOGAF certification is an added advantage
• Good written and verbal communication and presentation skills, able to interact professionally with all levels of the organization

Activate Interactive Pte Ltd (“Activate”) is a leading IT solution and service provider headquartered in Singapore with a presence in Malaysia and Indonesia. The homegrown company was founded in 1997 with the mission of positively impacting the lives of people around us and the environment we live in through the use of technology.

We offer quality, cost-effective and impactful IT solutions and services, including mobile and web applications and cloud technology. Over the years, we have helped government agencies and enterprises remove technology roadblocks and increase their business efficiency to better serve the communities.

To amplify our efforts in improving people's lives, Activate also develops preventive healthcare solutions that serve to increase health awareness and improve population health.

We believe that the success of a company relies on the strengths of our employees. At Activate, we are committed to provide a conducive environment and develop our employees to realise their full potential.

From a three-person outfit, Activate has grown into a team of more than 150 employees, delivering more than 150 solutions and services to help our clients achieve growth and success.

We have opportunities for you to grow your career path and are looking for talented professionals to join our team.

Ideal candidate

The candidate is meticulous and possesses good analytical and problem solving skills. He/She is proactive to identify preventive measures to mitigate recurring incidents and oversee the release planning and deployment.

He/She is able to communicate effectively with users and internally when managing the tasks/issues.

• Lead, drive and promote a DevOps culture through building relationships with Development & Operations and driving enhancements to the end-to-end release process.
• Responsible for Build, Test & Release best practices by working within teams and educating other microservices teams.
• Identify, plan and implement build and deployment automation activities and managing adhoc activities concurrently.
• Identify opportunities for improving reliability, and scalability of our production services.
• Ensure continuous availability of various tools supporting continuous integration and delivery.
• Provide guidance for other DevOps team members, developers and operation engineers.
• Oversee the implementation of corrective, preventive and adaptive maintenance
• Lead and brainstorm on possible root causes to identify interim and permanent solution
• Envision new products and features that are inspired, considered, and forward thinking.
• Consolidate team's progress for upward reporting

Requirements

• Preferred experience in government agencies
• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, working with development teams to streamline DevOps processes and implementation.
• 2+ years of experience in leading an IT service support team, preferably within the Government sector.
• Strong team player with good analytical and problem solving skills.
• Able to grasp business domain knowledge quickly.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• People orientated with a “Can Do” Attitude.
• Strong critical thinker with problem solving aptitude.
• Experience with various Singapore Government or Statutory IT compliance standards will be an advantage.
• Experience in MS SharePoint is an advantage.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Expert level in at least one of the languages like PowerShell, Bash, Python.
• Expert level in CI/CD pipelines tools and applications (Azure Pipelines, Bamboo, Jira, Jenkins, etc)
• Experience in .NET, NodeJS, C# and/or Java
• Expert level in working with deployment and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible).
• ITSM and Project Management certifications will be an added advantage

*Seniority of the position commensurate with the depth of knowledge and experience

Benefits

Flexi benefits that covers medical, gym, sports and wellness.

If you love the idea of being part of a growing company with exciting prospects in mobile and web technologies that create positive impact on people's lives, then we would love to hear from you

Ready to simplify adoption of Kubernetes? So are we, with Tanzu Kubernetes! Come join the VMware APJ Professional Services Engineering Team to enable customers succeed on their pilot-to-production journey and empower them run and manage production-ready Kubernetes. To learn more about VMware's vision in this space, watch this video.

About You

You are a seasoned current or former field engineering practitioner, or platform SRE, bringing in-depth technical expertise in Kubernetes platforms. You are hands-on with deploying and running Kubernetes in Production and onboarding highly distributed and scalable stateful and stateless applications on Kubernetes. You have worked long enough with Kubernetes to realize that though customers are keen to embrace Kubernetes, they struggle. You now want to be the technical solution architect who is passionate about helping customers succeed with Kubernetes, Pilot to Production.

The Team

The Platform Services Engineering team of which you will be a part of is a compact, niche APJ level Professional Services team which works across the pre-sales and post-sales continuum. This team will spend half of its time tactically solutioning and in conversation with key executives at must win / must retain customers in coloration with Software and Services Sales teams. Remaining time is spent on proactively to test and incubate “latest solutions”, and to enable internal delivery teams to use them. The team also supports the delivery team during the execution of critical engagements. This team provides thought leadership in Kubernetes Platform adoption to both internal and customer stakeholders.

What You'll Be Doing

During pre-sales, the Kubernetes Platform Architect – Platform Services Engineering will collaborate with the software sales and services sales teams. You are expected to be the Kubernetes expert in the room who can translate ambiguous business or technical objectives into services solutions which deliver tangible outcomes for the customer. You will be responsible for shaping the requirements for platform services, and for scoping the services solution related to running, managing, and observing the Kubernetes Platform. You will also lead application onboarding discovery workshop for the target ready-for-deployment applications identified for onboarding on the Tanzu Kubernetes platform, based on which you will determine the application onboarding service scope.

Post-sale, you will support the services delivery team on need basis for critical and/or complex engagements. Typical areas where your support may be needed include leading design workshop, application onboarding on to Tanzu Kubernetes, and leading the production readiness heath check of the Kubernetes platform.

Responsibilities

• Working in partnership with the sales teams, lead the pre-sales engagement with customers to understand desired customer outcomes, technical objectives, and services requirements
• Lead discovery workshops with customers to understand their business and technical drivers including application onboarding discovery of deployment-ready application workloads targeted for deployment in Kubernetes.
• Think past individual products and to design high level end-to-end solutions with Tanzu Kubernetes to meet the business outcomes and IT objectives, create end to end solutions to meet the business outcomes
• Craft compelling services proposals and effectively communicate the proposed services architecture to the customer, partners and project teams to demonstrate its tangible value
• Ensure that proposals, solution designs and Statements Of Work are technically sound, competitive and representative of market leadership in the application of Kubernetes Platform technology to addressing business outcomes
• Define role-based Level of Effort required to deliver the solution in line with VMware best practice and in collaboration with delivery leadership
• Lead Kubernetes Platform Services Design Workshops to support the delivery team on critical or complex engagements
• Support delivery team for application onboarding onto Tanzu Kubernetes
• Provide leadership to help customers adopt and operationalize Tanzu Kubernetes in Production
• Proactively test and incubate “latest solutions”, create delivery assets and enable internal delivery teams to use them
• Promote the adoption of automation techniques and ‘as code' best practices to manage Tanzu Kubernetes in production.
• Support a culture of learning and sharing by contributing to our technical content library to amplify and re-use architecture patterns and solution assets for common customer use cases.
• Work effectively and collaboratively with a remote and distributed team

Required Skills & Experience

• 6-8+ years' success in delivery consulting or engineering roles, with responsibility for architecture, design and implementation of platforms for running distributed applications on private or public cloud infrastructure
• 2+ years of practical hands-on consulting experience in delivering Kubernetes projects (OR) as Kubernetes Platform SRE, enabling successful run, manage, observe of Kubernetes in Production.
• Practical hands-on experience in deploying stateful and stateless workloads on Kubernetes
• Strong practical proficiency in Linux (Administration skills highly valued)
• Ability to confidently lead executive presentations, and facilitate key meetings and workshops, using tools and practices to help understand a problem space and lead senior-level stakeholders toward potential solutions
• An active listener with excellent communications and interpersonal skills, with an ability to utilizes different styles of questioning techniques and manage conflict and objection handling
• Polished communication skills; able to explain complex topics using simple words
• Understanding of the latest cloud trends and best practices, including Cloud-Native Architecture and Patterns, DevOps and infrastructure-as-code/GitOps principles
• Proven competence to learn fast and educate others on rapidly changing technology across software engineering of modern applications, automation, and operations
• Ability and willingness to travel approximately 50% (post pandemic travel restrictions)

Prefered or Helpful Skills & Experience

• Pre-sales Consulting experience, including time supporting sales and liaising with technical practices and delivery. Alternatively, experience in the enterprise, interfacing between IT and platform users
• Experience with cloud service provider offerings like Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• The ideal candidate will have familiarity with virtualization technologies such as Hyper-V, vSphere, and vCenter, software defined networking and software defined storage
• Participate and contribute to broader Open Source and Modern Applications ecosystem, Kubernetes SIG's, CNCF practice communities.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) certifications.

DataTech engineers are Grab's go-to resident experts who design, build, and run mission critical code, pipelines and infrastructure that extract, process and prepare every piece of data generated or consumed by Grab's systems.

We are a diverse team of site reliability, data, machine learning, and software engineers that work to solve all kinds of data related problems faced by teams from all corners of Grab as well as act as a bridge that ties everyone together through data. As data in Grab never stops growing, this team also never stops, learning, innovating and expanding so that we can bring in or build the latest and best tools, technology to ensure the company's continued success.

Get to know the Role

We are looking for an engineer who would be interested in architecting, deploying, and running some of the biggest data platforms in SouthEast Asia. An engineer in this role would build on lakes that are petabyte scale, inflight data that is terabyte scale, and distributed systems that routinely serve tens of thousands of queries every second with tight SLAs.

In this role, you get the opportunity to be part of a team that designs, builds and runs the mission-critical code, pipelines and infrastructure that extract, process and prepare every piece of data generated or consumed by Grab's systems.

If you're a technical craftsman keen on empowering our consumers, businesses, and Grabbers to make the best decisions with trusted, reliable data platforms, algorithms, and models, this might just be the place for you!

The day-to-day activities

• Architecting and scaling data analytics infrastructure on multi-cloud environment; finding opportunities to improve and optimize the workloads, processes to ensure that performance levels can support continuous accurate, reliable and timely delivery of data products
• Designing, evaluating, and implementing framework and platform that can adequately handle the needs of a rapidly growing data driven company
• Manage the continuous testing and deployment of data pipelines, new data platform services and analytical reporting dashboards.
• You spend time with security ensuring that their needs are built into automated guardrails for developer resources
• Spearhead the development of systems, architectures, and platforms that can scale to the 3 Vs of Big data (Volume, Velocity, Variety)
• You support the developer community in their needs, always with a view to self-service and automation where possible
• You are responsible for the roll-out of new cross-cutting technologies - container clusters and service mesh, secrets management, monitoring and logging solutions and more

The must haves

• You have experience with one or more cloud environments (AWS, Azure preferred)
• Experience in container management and orchestration tools like ECS, Kubernetes, and Mesos is a strong plus
• Proficiency in common big data toolsets like Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Presto in a large scale environment
• Highly proficient with Linux Systems Administration
• You are an experienced DevOps or DevSecOps practitioner, and have operated production services in cloud environments
• Real passion for data, new data technologies, and discovering new and interesting solutions to the company's data needs
• You can easily pick up new technologies and are keen to expand your knowledge
• You have experience with micro-service architectures

Get to know Grab

Grab is more than just the leading ride-hailing and mobile payments platform in Southeast Asia. We use data and technology to improve everything from transportation to payments and financial services across a region of more than 620 million people. We work with governments, drivers, passengers, merchants, and the community, to solve critical problems in Southeast Asia.

Grab began as a taxi-hailing app in 2012, but we have since extended our product platform to include GrabCar, GrabShare, GrabBike, GrabHitch, GrabExpress, GrabFood, GrabCoach, GrabShuttle, GrabCycle. We recently launched our fintech platform – GrabFinancial, which consists of payments, lending and insurance. Our latest addition is GrabVentures, an in-house incubation platform. We are focused on pioneering new commuting and payment alternatives for drivers and passengers with an emphasis on convenience, safety, and reliability. Currently, we offer services in 8 countries. Our R&D offices are in Singapore, Seattle, Beijing, Bangalore, Jakarta and Vietnam. We aspire to unlock the true potential of Southeast Asia and look for like-minded individuals to join us on this ride.

We are currently looking for a versatile and enthusiastic Cloud Operations Engineer, someone who can manage multi-cloud workloads, build robust infrastructure automation, as well as troubleshoot blockchain protocol issues of any complexity.

You will work on:

• Delivering and supporting reliable and scalable cloud-based managed blockchain services to our customers
• Designing automation, monitoring, deployment, configuration, service discovery tools and services

You will be awesome at this role if you have:

• Extensive experience working with at least one public cloud provider (Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure)
• Proficiency in containers and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Docker), infrastructure automation tools (Helm, Terraform), and any continuous integration and delivery tool (CircleCI/Gitlab CI/Jenkins)
• Scripting language programming skills (Bash, Python)
• Exposure to the administration of application servers, web servers, and databases

You will be even more awesome if you have:

• Familiarity with technologies such as distributed computing and cybersecurity
• An exceptional intellectual drive to go deeper down the blockchain rabbit hole